# Who am I? - March 7, 2025

Hi! I'm Jake Little.

I'm a software engineer in San Francisco, studied computer science at Tufts, and grew up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

I like learning about programming, software, and business.

I recently started reading Paul Graham's essays, including a few about writing. Paul is pretty convinced that writing well about something is an important part of deeply understanding it. He probably knows better than me, so I figured I'd try it out. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'll post anything I write on this site (in which I've likely invested more time programming than I will writing for it! [1]). I plan on writing about:

• Software engineering and programming
• Business, economics, and money
• My feelings

I'm not an expert in any of these things, but I want to be! If Paul's hypothesis is right, then writing about them as a non-expert is a necessary prerequisite for becoming an expert so I might as well start now. If he's wrong, writing probably won't hurt [2].

Finally, logistics:

• You can email me --> jakelittle135@gmail.com
• My GitHub is --> https://github.com/jlittle22
• I'm on LinkedIn --> https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsnlittle/

Thanks,

Jake

Comments

[1] I was planning on making the GitHub repo public, but I can't. I implemented a notion of whether an essay is 'published' or not. Unfortunately, the drafts are stored directly in the repo, so opening it would invalidate my publishing mechanism. Maybe that goes to show how much of an expert in software development I'm not. :)

[2] The problem with posting your ideas on the open internet is that they're almost certainly offensive to someone somehow. (I don't intend to share anything particularly offensive.) In the case where I cause sufficient offense, writing actually would hurt. That would suck.