136 Days of Unemployment
I keep a Google Doc titled "Notes".
I look at it every day. I feel guilty whenever I look at it.
I feel guilty because "Notes" has my TODO list. Notes has a log of how slowly I DO my TODOs, if I DO them at
Thorne Wolfenbarger
So, You Want To Build a Road
If you are reading this, you are considering building a brand new road! First, congratulations! Building a new road is a serious undertaking and you probably don't even know where to start. That's okay! This instructional will walk you through your first "roadie" considerations.
What I See Coming in LLM Reinforcement Learning
RL for LLMs is going to be a relevant and durable process for AI development so long as we don't have AGI.
Reinforcement Learning (RL) for LLMs seems to be a popular topic right now for those of us in the AI space; however, most of the world
One Month Out
Here I am – standing in the same place as yesterday. I see how everything has changed right under my feet.
These are some of the richest moments of my life. I have the time and the energy to focus on the things that I care about. One month after leaving
Two Weeks of Unemployment
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I'm writing this post in an 84º AirBnB in Los Angeles.
I've finished Moravagine (learned many new words). I'm reading Basil Bunting On Poetry (learning a lot about poetry). I'm writing a lot of poetry myself and sitting in coffee shops
One Week of Unemployment
After four years, I've left Google. I accepted a voluntary layoff and my access was revoked at 5pm, Tuesday Aug. 19th 2025. When this happened, I felt a wave of sadness come over me, knowing that a defining chapter in my life closed and another had just begun.
Thorne Wolfenbarger Statement of Beliefs
My name is Thorne Wolfenbarger. I am an idealist. I believe in many things.
I believe in the pursuit of knowledge and the idea that the accumulation of knowledge is a fundamental good. I believe that information has a will all its own. I believe that information wants to be
There is No Truth and There Will Never Be Truth
Words are words like your hands are hands. You change the world with either but only hold words to a superior moral standard. Is there truth to your front door – to remain locked before you turn the key? Is there truth that a stone must lie still, before you skip
Running Ads for lifestyle.photo for one day
I've made a lot of side projects over the years. I am a grown man now and have to admit that the reason that none of them found traction isn't because I got unlucky, it's because I never have legitimately made a product worth
Weight Cycling
Placing alternating weights on the chest, chiefly known as Weight Cycling, is an effective method of communication while simultaneously serving as a conditioning mechanism for the body and the mind. These weights, primarily metaphysical, can be adjusted at the handles. These handles, experience, can emulate "looking back" -