About
My name is Andrew Brož. This is my personal site, where I share my work and my interests, what I’ve been thinking about, my writing, and snapshots of my history and my present. The content is mostly personal, a little professional, but the latter is not a priority.
I love exploring nature and playing music; I’ve played the cello since I was five years old. My favorite color is green, but I am also a fan of blue. And purple. Yellow and orange and red are also quite nice. Some of my favorite fruits are peaches, mangos, lychees, and cherries. I enjoy concocting recipes, hunting for mushrooms, looking at stars, and swimming in cold water.
I am American and Czech. I have lived in Texas, Ukraine, California, and Puerto Rico. I speak English, Ukrainian, Russian, and Spanish fairly well.
I have spent the last several years studying the automation of intelligence, and the capabilities of, and risks posed by, systems of humans and machines that pursue goals. I am interested in how automations and the systems they are a part of can make people, society, and the greater world better rather than worse. Prior to that, I studied mathematics and had a career in the software industry.
This site is a little unusual in that certain features, like presentation order, color, and layout, are determined by the changing state of the world—the tide, the stars, the seasons. What you see varies from day to day. Come back tomorrow and you’ll see something different.
Some display elements on the site are mine, like the handwritten doodles and glyphs. Other elements and data I have sourced with permission. I want to thank the people who created them and made them available. Credits below.
© 2026. All rights reserved.
- Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions · Anna Atkins · NYPL Digital Collections · Public domain
- Yale Bright Star Catalogue, 5th revised edition · Hoffleit & Warren · Harvard/CDS · Freely redistributed
- IAU Catalog of Star Names · IAU Working Group on Star Names · IAU WGSN · CC-BY-4.0
- Hipparcos Catalogue parallaxes · ESA (1997) · CDS I/239 · Freely redistributed
- IAU constellation stick figures (d3-celestial line set) · Olaf Frohn · d3-celestial · BSD-3-Clause
- TICON-4 tidal constituents (Tobermory) · TICON-4 · SEANOE · CC-BY-4.0
- Weather observations (Oban) · Open-Meteo · Open-Meteo · CC-BY-4.0
- Chromat-2062 Farbfernseher 6400dpi 1979 · Veit Schagow · Wikimedia Commons · CC-BY-SA-4.0
- Bedienungsanleitung chromat 2060/2062/2160/2162 — "Das Bedienteil" · vintage-antik-store.de (listing seller) · vintage-antik-store.de, product 10420 · DDR factory document, rights holder defunct
- Rabbit-ears dipole antenna with UHF loop · Mark Wagner (User:Carnildo) · Wikimedia Commons · CC-BY-2.5
- Literata · TypeTogether (Veronika Burian & José Scaglione) · Fontsource · OFL-1.1
- IBM Plex Mono · IBM (Mike Abbink & Bold Monday) · Fontsource · OFL-1.1
- Jost · The Jost Project Authors · Fontsource (Google Fonts) · OFL-1.1
- PT Sans · ParaType (Alexandra Korolkova, Olga Umpeleva & Vladimir Yefimov) · Fontsource · OFL-1.1
- KaTeX · Khan Academy and the KaTeX contributors · KaTeX · MIT
- Courier Prime · Alan Dague-Greene (Quote-Unquote Apps) · Fontsource (Google Fonts) · OFL-1.1
- Caveat · Pablo Impallari & Impallari Type · Fontsource (Google Fonts) · OFL-1.1
- Audiowide · Brian J. Bonislawsky (Astigmatic) · Fontsource (Google Fonts) · OFL-1.1