About David
I recently graduated from Texas A&M
University with a masters in Management of Information Systems. I now live in rural Texas, though I will soon be looking for a
job in a big city. I am an egoist, a technophile, a capitalist, and a proud advocate of my ideals.
About RationalMind.Net
The two passions of my life are technology and philosophy, and I
use the web to pursue them both. The purpose of this
website is to provide an outlet for my ideas and a place to
experiment with web design and programming. I have kept a
blog since June 2002, though this website has been around in one
form or another since my high school web-design class. I also
run
ObjectivismOnline.Net,
an online community for people who share my ideas.
Inspirations:
Heroes and intellectual influences:
Fiction Writers:
Ayn Rand, Robert Heinlein,
Victor Hugo, James Clavell, Arthur C Clarke, Jules Verne, Arthur
Conan Doyle, Shakespeare
Non-fiction Writers:
Ludwig Von
Mises, Leonard Peikoff,
Thomas Sowell,
Milton
Friedman, Henry Hazlitt,
George Reisman,
Aristotle
Music: Classical, Classic Rock, Techno,
Electronica, Jazz, and 80’s rock.
Brief Biography:
I was born in
Ukraine on
October 12, 1980. Ten years later, I
immigrated with my family to the United States of America, the
greatest country in the world. After
eight years of collectivist propaganda in the public schools of San
Antonio, Texas, I entered Texas A&M University, and discovered
the meaning of liberty in the form of free-market
economics. My interest in liberty led
me to change my major to economics and political science, in which
I received degrees three years later.
Not long after becoming a capitalist, my intellectual journey
led me to begin a life-long study of philosophy and Ayn
Rands philosophy of Objectivism.
I have been an advocate of individual rights, and a pro-reason,
pro-reality philosophy on campus as well as on the
web. I enjoy debating philosophy,
politics, economics, and technology with anyone who cares to offer
me a rational argument. I currently do
this at the Aggie
Objectivism Club and the
Objectivism Online
forums.
I also have a strong interest in technology; especially the
potential for information systems to improve human life.
I am currently a graduate student in
Management of Information Systems as Texas A&M.
I enjoy web-design and programming both
for a living and as a hobby. Other
technology interests include blogging, PHP, .Net, the semantic web,
and content management systems.
My professional goal is to become an expert in system
architecture and enterprise system development.
My intellectual goal is to study the
theory, history, philosophy, and ethics of freedom.
My personal goals are to find friends
and a soulmate who share my values and passions, learn to fly a
plane, and retire to write books on how great human life should and
can be. I enjoy reading, skating,
skiing, hiking, digital
photography, flight simulators, and the occasional movie.
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