About Dave Stucky

This describes me and what I’m about. To avoid redundancy, go here for the work experience.

The early years

  • late-1980s — Born in California’s Inland Empire, wasn’t properly socialized
  • 1990s — Autistic overweight smart kid with glasses, so bullied a ton by other kids, would occasionally beat them up after weeks/months of teasing
  • mid-1990s — Hobbies: developed an interest in reading nonfiction, especially science and history
  • late-1990s — Middle school: student leadership and academic pentathlon
  • 2001-2005 — High school: football team, defensive lineman
  • 2003-2004 — High school: wrestling team, heavyweight division (got a few trophies)
  • 2004 — High school senior year: sent to military school for 2–3 months
  • 2005 — Career: first job in fast food

Early adult years

  • 2006 — Community college: 1-2 classes/semester with no clue what to do
  • 2006 — Hardship: dislocated foot in a skateboard accident and converted to Christianity
  • 2006–2009 — Hardship: Bad career decisions, led to about a dozen living situations
  • 2009 — Career: a healthy work-for-rent arrangement, pursued a career in accounting
  • 2011 — Community college: graduated with honors, started tax preparer license
  • 2011 — Hardship: broke wrist on a skateboard-based commute and couldn’t get tax prep license
  • 2012 — College: graduated with honors from WGU undergraduate accounting program
  • 2013 — Hardship: severe budget constraints, chose to live out of car, trained for tax preparer license
  • 2014 — Hardship: persecution for Christian faith halted tax prep career, very unstable living situation, started identifying as “the Philosopher Accountant”.
  • 2014 — Family: met Tori Lawson, drove across the country from New York to California to meet her, survived a major auto accident along the way in Pennsylvania
  • 2015 — Hobbies: finished first book, though it was never published
  • 2016 — Family: got married to Tori, vacationed in Seattle
  • 2016 — Hobbies: finished the proto-version of AdequateLife
  • 2016 — Hobbies: finished the proto-version of TheoLogos
  • 2017 — Family: committed lifestyle with Tori to fully trusting God (presuming missionaries at the time)
  • 2017 — Family: moved to a donated fifth-wheel trailer on an empty plot of land in Banning, CA
  • 2017 — Family: Tori has eclamptic seizure and emergency C-section, son Victor was born

More recent things

  • 2018 — Family: traveled the country as a truck driver, moved family from California to Iowa
  • 2019 — Career: after managerial blame-shifting over a damage-free black ice trucking event, shifted career to tech industry
  • 2020 — Family: height of the COVID-19 pandemonium, daughter Mia was born
  • 2020 — Hobbies: finished GainedInSite
  • 2021 — Hardship: waived Miranda Rights with police, spent 7 weeks in jail, and became a convicted felon
  • 2022 — Career: with much effort, acquired a probationary insurance license
  • 2022 — Hobbies: created NotaGenius
  • 2023 — Hobbies: rebuilt and edited AdequateLife, GainedInSite, TheoLogos, and NotaGenius to higher editorial standards.
  • 2024-2025 — Hardship: marriage argument turned physical, Tori called the police, disappeared with Victor and Mia for over a year, legal butterfly effect took away insurance license
  • 2025 — Hobbies: in light of editorial paradigm and AI scraping, migrated most essays to public commonplace

Who I Am

Before anything else, I am a Christian. This means I own that I’m a flawed sinner, but that I also have no reason to feel shame.

I’m a pile of neurodivergence:

  • High-functioning pattern/language ASD
  • I came from an unhealthy background
    • My mother was a covert narcissist, and she effectively emasculated my father
    • This forced me to a solitary crossroad between victimization or harsh self-sufficiency, and I chose the latter
  • BPAD, with notes of ADHD on the mania phase
  • Severe PTSD on most things
  • I’ve been described as a laser tornado of energy
  • I’m a human quine: terrible at image management, but WYSIWYG with proof of competence
  • My experiences have transformed me a few times over
    • My harshness still lingers, but God has tempered it
    • I’m far more “laser” with a bit less “tornado” than I used to be

On the Big 5 personality indicators:

  • Average Openness to Experience
  • Insanely high Conscientiousness
  • Average Extroversion
  • Moderate Agreeableness
  • Above-average to high Neuroticism

My Extraversion and Openness vacillates with the BPAD to create two general modes of preference:

  1. I like working alone on large projects about 70% of the time.
  2. I like engaging daily with a variety of small groups of people.

In general, I need at least five friends, prefer at least 7, and thrive when I have about 10.

My purpose often moves around, but it retains a clear, precise theme of trying to do the right thing at all costs.