Tale of dual j's

In an orthogonal vein, you may think I just couldn't get jacobchen.com and went with a proximate domain name. Well you're not wrong, but the double "j" 's have an origin story.

As you know, I hate words; in middle school, they'd say "read between the lines", and taking that a bit too literally, I only looked at the un-inked spaces between the characters. Playing with my name, I discovered both a reflected "t" and a curved dagger in the "jj"— cool.

I wield it now as a pointer to perception, how what is seen in and around are both derived from the same underlying.

"Everyone has a different perspective" is a phrase instilled into us early on but not taken seriously enough. When a consequential disagreement occurs, with a friendship, election, country, or just your social media ego on the line, self-claiming progress-oriented people might abstract the problem and assign blame to the diversity in backgrounds and perspectives. In reality, every single movement you make, art you create, word you speak, will not be interpreted isomorphically to how you planned.

In other dreadful words, there will always be a margin of error of various maginitudes between the thought in [g]'s head and the thought invoked in [h]'s by [g]. We see the optimization problem is [g] maintaining their quality of thought while ensuring it is accurately communicated to [h]. I am no linguist, but preserving quality in communication may be society's greatest bottleneck. We're all great guessers in a cryptosystem with perfect secrecy, but maybe if we augmented an existing language, we could be brilliant.