🤔 Who am I?

Good question. The search for identity is one of main questions that I am facing these days. That, and meaning in general.

There are some anagraphical and social pieces of informations about me. I am in my 40s, I am a Particle Physicist, I was born in Europe, but now live in the US. I like writing code, mainly in Python: I think I am a decent coder, let's say of intermediate skill. I like science, although not as much as in the past, because my brain is out of shape, and because science is very good at explaining the "how", but does a pretty bad job at addressing the "why".

I like roleplaying games, I played D&D for ages, starting in 2nd Edition and basically never stopping. I used to play other TTRPG, like Vampire: The Masquerade, and other White Wolf games, but D&D is my main. Sometimes I wonder where I would be without roleplaying games, they really are an important part of my life.

I mentioned I like science, but during these days of uncertainty I miss a more classical approach to knowledge. I lost the ability to read books, I simply do not have the attention span of sitting down and reading a book, so my intake of culture has been slowed down to the bone. As weird as it seems, I found out that using LLMs is a pretty good approach for me to learn new stuff: the dialectical aspect of the interaction lets me stay in the conversation and acquire new knowledge. Contrarily to many other people, I welcome the power of LLMs.

So here I am, in Geminispace, because I am a nostalgic for a simpler life. I have no idea if this space will ever be seen by anybody, but in any case, here I am.