Hi 👋 I'm Thomas. I'm the gardener here. ![[welcome.png]] ## About me I am originally from Monaco 🇲🇨 and currently reside in Singapore 🇸🇬 (respectively the 2nd and 20th smallest countries in the world). I have lived, studied, and worked in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and now Asia; and have been blessed with traveling to 50+ countries. I consider myself a global citizen. Professionally, I have been an aerospace and aviation consultant since 2000. I am now a Partner at Deloitte (the world's largest multidisciplinary professional services firm), where I lead the aviation industry sector for Asia Pacific. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasdpellegrin/) has my academic and career history. Views expressed here are my own. ## About this website **This is my digital garden** 🌿 where I plant seedlings of thoughts (atomic ideas) that I consider worthy of cultivating. Some may wither and be pruned; others may bloom and extend their tendrils (hyperlinks, tags) as I fertilize them with elaboration. A few may pollinate and blossom into chimeras (meta ideas). **This is where I learn in public** 👀 and collect ideas that sharpen my mental model of the world. I do this by applying the [[Plastic platypus learning|Feynman technique]] to self-learning. I revisit my notes regularly to avoid [[Forgetting curve|forgetting]]. I also use an [[Idea compass|idea compass]] to [[Typed link|type-link]] ideas with related concepts. **Why I tend this digital garden** 🪏 I am a [[Nexialism|nexialist]] who enjoys connecting ideas across seemingly unrelated disciplines to yield [[Emergence|emergent]] insights through [[poiesis]]. I also believe that consistent note-taking frees up the mind for a less anxious exploration of the search space. **What to find here** 🍀 An eclectic assortment of ideas (including a few of my own) that broadly map onto my interests in complexity, consciousness, dialectics, emergence, epistemology, mental models, ethics, mathematics, chaos theory, metaphysics, literature, and many more. **Where to begin** 🗺️ Start from any index or note whose title speaks to you in the left bar or among the suggestions below, and then use the idea compass to move to the next. Let [[Serendipity|serendipity]] guide you as you forage, and remember that [[Not all those who wander are lost|not all those who wander are lost]]. ## Colophon This site is built using [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md) set to the [Minimal](https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-minimal) theme's *Everforest* color scheme and webified using the [Publish](https://obsidian.md/publish) plugin. ## Latest notes ![[Index of recent notes|clean no-title]] ## Random notes ![[Index of random notes|clean no-title]]