Dylan Walker Mills

I grew up in the Bay Area and now live in San Diego. I'm a chemistry PhD dropout who worked on microfluidics, protein engineering, RNA hairpin design, and pigment engineering in diatoms during my time in academia, before leaving to sell analytical chemistry instrumentation for a living. Outside of work, my main hobbies lately have been writing (I blog on Substack), messing around with AI automation and LLMs, and self-hosting an ever-growing stack of services including document management. I'm opinionated about PKMs and doc management as a recovering Obsidian/zettelkasten/PARA devotee, who now prefers systems that just work and are searchable, scalable, and connective. Topical interests include entropy, land value tax systems, philosophy, and biomedical science.