Protesilaos
Protesilaos
Protesilaos
I am a philosopher living in the mountains of Cyprus at a house I built myself which I affectionately call “the hut.” I spend my free time programming on GNU Emacs, writing essays on a wide range of life issues, and doing infrastructure work around my house. My background is diverse and reflects my intellectual curiosity as well as consistently high work ethic.
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This is an entry from my journal. It is about an experience that helped me become more practical, focused, and decisive. There was a period in my life when I was more self-absorbed. I would live “in my head”, where I would entertain...
In this ~2-hour video, I talk with Ovidiu “Ovi” Stoica about programming in Clojure and using it for business, the use of Emacs, and various topics related to AI. About Clojure, I ask Ovi what the language is good for and which sort of...
Your name the unyielding force that plows the land Tonight I build the world you had fathomed
Thorny rose beautiful and untouchable like the dreams I never dared to pursue you are the flower my garden was made for
Unlike my other entries in the “selfies” section of my website, today I am sharing a sketch of me by Ekaitz Zarraga, available under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Thanks to Ekaitz for sharing this with me and for granting me...
In this ~2.5-hour video, I talk with Ag Ibragimov about Emacs, Lisp programming, Large Language Models, social interactions and the use of language, as well as the importance of narratives and story-telling. Ag shares with me his...
For this entry in the series, I have picked a poem from my own collection: https://protesilaos.com/poems. I usually do not explain what my poems mean or, rather, what I think they are about, because I do not want to bias the reader’s...
Below is the revised rendition of the original from 2022-12-03. It is in line with the interpretation I wrote this morning: https://protesilaos.com/interpretations/2025-10-09-enchantress-by-protesilaos/. Enchant me Siren Guide my ship to...