About
Welcome to Notes By Xavier, a personal space for my essays, working notes, and considered perspectives.
Some Context
Writing helps clarify what I think and why. Right now, the system I spend the most time trying to dismantle and make sense of is technology.
Funny enough, I wasn't always a developer, or exited about tech. I spent most of my teens and twenties completely convinced music was what I was supposed to do. I loved it, but I found myself having a constant internal struggle. Music felt too subjective, and because it came so naturally to me, I struggled to believe it was a true talent. I was just talking about my life, I felt anybody could do that.
Looking back, I stayed in that world because of what I now would call, external momentum. The people around me kept telling me to keep pushing. But I was optimizing for the wrong thing or metric, becoming a "star."
Really and truly, it is not my personality to be the center of attention. I genuinely hate promoting myself. Over time, my focus shifted completely away from the illusion of stardom and toward creating a tangible, systemic impact.
That is where technology completely rewrote my trajectory.
Web and software development gave me a playground where I could see problems that were objective, complex, and more challenging to solve. It offered a lot more alignment personality wise. It was a way to solve operational bottlenecks and build tools that shape business, work, and social connections.
And best of all, I get to do all of this working quietly from behind the scenes.
The Platform
This site runs on Notesby, an open-source publishing engine created by Xavier Lawrence as part of the CLSTRE ecosystem. It gives writers full ownership of their content, their data, and their reading experience.
The source code is open and available on GitHub.