I think I have one of the best repertoires of open Chrome tabs. The panoramic is composed of the most excellent blogs on tech, startups, futurism, longevity, computer science, AI, physics, cryptocurrencies, rationality, personal development, bio-hacking, weird politics, writing, and some polymathic ones [Blogroll ]. It seemed a very impressive consumption gamut, until I ventured out as a creator & perceived the scarcity of my unique thoughts.

Most of the novel outlooks I held were already fleshed out, articulated by someone much more celebrated. I was stuck with an open Notion doc and no original notions — incapacitated by my own expectations. Or what I coin as "The Init Fallacy" — indefinite exploration for low-hanging fruits, paralysing you to never make the init commit.

So the genesis of this blog has an underlying clause that bags "flawed-ship" — inconsistency, incompleteness & undecidability — which, in turn, inspired the blog name.

Gödel's incompleteness theorems

In 1931, Kurt Gödel published two theorems proving that there can never be a complete, consistent mathematical theory of everything. Any formal system (such as number theory) will always have Truths without proof & could never prove its own consistency.

This blew my mind the first time I grasped its implications. And it spawned a thread of profound respect for Mathematicians, derived from the jarring nature of their reality & continued endeavour regardless. Which is the fractional inspiration for this blog — a realisation that you can do awesome stuff even in the face of certain uncertainties.

The two theorems:

Theorem VI

Any consistent formal system F within which a certain amount of elementary arithmetic can be carried out is incomplete; i.e., there are statements of the language of F which can neither be proved nor disproved in F.

Theorem XI

Assume F is a consistent formalized system which contains elementary arithmetic. Then ${\displaystyle F\not \vdash {\text{Cons}}(F)}$.

The scope of elucidating the theorems is beyond this blogpost (and beyond me). Check out these excellent resources for more.

sixeleven

Is just a combination of the two theorems; the only option from the combinatorics that is available as a domain, while maintaining the “rolls right off the tongue” property. The name also serves as an epithet for the hyperbole of perfection.

What should you expect from these essays?

I'll write something I'm genuinely interested about: you can gauge the codomain from the domains above. If you're into science & technology, you might take away some interesting viewpoints. In any case, you can visualise the arc of a novice as I come to terms with my biases, realise my blindspots, and develop new ones — a case study for the curious.

About me

Bio in third person.

I work as a Software Engineer at a mid-size company in Bengaluru, India. Previously, Data Scientist at a YC backed startup. You can probably grep a good outline of my mental models via:

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