beyond code
academic and literary interests
Before I wrote code, I wrote essays about American literature, a field that taught me to look for pattern, metaphor and intent. That same instinct now drives how I write and reason about software.
I've always been drawn to where the humanities and technology meet. Gary Snyder's beautiful poem "Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh" captures this perfectly, treating his beloved Macintosh Plus like a trusted forest companion:
Because its keys click like hail on a rock
& it winks when it goes out
It's proof that poetry and machine can be on speaking terms: both are acts of translation, empathy and design.
Visions of America: The Writer as a Prophet in Allen Ginsberg's "Howl", William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch and Jack Kerouac's Visions of Cody
My Master's thesis in American Literature
Interview with Gary Snyder
A conversation with the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet for the Writers in Motion event.
Hosts: Natalia Berdys, Arkadiusz Poltorak