About

I’m Aaron Gillespie. I’m the guy in that picture down there (in blue, not in orange). This website is my internet-facing presence. I maintain it for fun and to keep myself producing creative content. I’m a married father of two. I am an Electrical Engineer by education, but have spent more energy learning to code since my graduation from college. I’m an advocate of self-tracking, knowing what’s important to you, and getting things done.

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The Column

The Column has existed in one form or another for most of the past two decades, from a “The Column” section of the Xanga page for a band the author was in for 3 weeks in middle school, to a WordPress page hosted by a friend, to a Tumblr right after college, to a Blogger blog for the past 7 years, and now on GitHub Pages. Its purpose is solely for its author’s entertainment. If you enjoy any portion of reading it, that’s a happy side effect. Columns cover whatever topic I feel like writing about at the time. As such, their content is usually contemporaneous to the time and always informal.

Typical Topics

  • consumer technology
  • quantified self stuff
  • musings on life
  • movies, mostly Marvel movies
  • personal projects
  • whatever else Aaron feels like on a given day

Gillespedia

Gillespedia is a section of this website holding articles I wrote that fulfill a different role. Articles located in Gillespedia are not about my life, or current-day topics. They are, instead, book reviews, philosophical writings, and analyses of more general topics. Gillespedia is not two decades old. It’s been around since roughly mid-2019, and has only existed in this form since April 2020. It is a part of my application of the Feynman Technique.

Typical Topics

  • Non-fiction book reviews
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Math
  • Productivity
  • Life, in general

Creation of the Week

In May 2020 I began cataloguing a “Creation of the Week”. I like to think of myself as a well-rounded creative person, but as time has gone on, each of my little projects have gotten lost or forgotten about. The aim of the CotW is to be a repository of my creative efforts for posterity and to function as motivation to continue creating things.

Typical Creations

  • Columns
  • Gillespedia articles
  • coding projects
  • drawings
  • videos
  • woodwork, and other physical products
  • jokes (maybe someday)
  • music (maybe someday)