I'm Braden, founder of Epicenter (YC S25).

I started as a humanities student at Yale studying Ethics, Politics, and Economics, but fell in love with coding in my first year. Since then, my mission has been to bridge the gaps between the two disciplines, building and writing in public as avenues to do good. 🧑‍💻

While I've been fortunate to have awesome industry jobs in the past, open-source software has a special place in my heart. It is liberating to code without worrying about profits or temptations to monetize users and profit off their data. While I make much less in open-source software, I'm fortunate to make it my full-time career.

This blog is under construction, with more ideas to come. If I can help even one person and change their life trajectory for the better, I will have considered it a success.