After four years, I've left Google. I accepted a voluntary layoff and my access was revoked at 5pm, Tuesday Aug. 19th 2025. When this happened, I felt a wave of sadness come over me, knowing that a defining chapter in my life closed and another had just begun.

My name is Thorne Wolfenbarger. I am an idealist. I believe in many things. I believe in the pursuit of knowledge and the idea that the accumulation of knowledge is a fundamental good. I believe that information has a will all its own. I believe that information wants to be

Words are words like your hands are hands. You change the world with either but only hold words to a superior moral standard. Is there truth to your front door – to remain locked before you turn the key? Is there truth that a stone must lie still, before you skip

I've made a lot of side projects over the years. I am a grown man now and have to admit that the reason that none of them found traction isn't because I got unlucky, it's because I never have legitimately made a product worth

Placing alternating weights on the chest, chiefly known as Weight Cycling, is an effective method of communication while simultaneously serving as a conditioning mechanism for the body and the mind. These weights, primarily metaphysical, can be adjusted at the handles. These handles, experience, can emulate "looking back" -

How do you live an aesthetic/good/satisfying life? You can prioritize optionality, control, or a plethora of other metrics. How does regret compare to these other life policies? What does it mean to minimize regret? The "regret minimization framework" is a framework popularized by Jeff Bezos as

Capitalism is an economic system that largely dictates the structure of a society built around it. If a society is "ideas we share" + "how we interact", Capitalism provides the basis/medium/infrastructure for how a capitalistic society interacts. Capitalism is abuse. Consider an individual - a

Pre-reading is a useful activity before attending a lecture to make sure you get the most out of the delivered content. Doing some pre-reading lay out some foundations for the subject matter at hand and helps you connect the concepts introduces in the lecture more quickly and more deeply. What

Follow up on "2023: Reflections and Looking Forward". This is the year I became a reader, writer, poet, and meditator on love. I took an ~6 month break from personal programing projects. 2024 was about the same as 2023, earning it a tie for "best year of