Hello. My name is Idan Stark. Welcome to my personal page. In this page, I will share with you my thoughts, ideas, and projects I've done over the years.
If by any change you got here from my web-development resume, I appologize but I'm currently not developing anymore, and will not return to the field any time soon, other the for personal projects that you can find here under the projects page.
If you want to read my short story On The Weekend, you can find it here.
If you want to read the first chapter of The Diary of Maggie Linklogger (with comments), you can find it here.
If you want to contact me, you can do so by sending me an email.
About me
I have a lost of interests and things I'm doing. Mostly I try to manage it all in a sustainable way, but it's not working that great for me. I'm trying to learn how to manage my time better, but it's a slow process. Some of the things I do are:
- I am a physics and sociology major just finishing my Bs.C. in Tel Aviv University. I've always been interested in the intersection between different fields, and I believe that the best way to understand the world is to look at it from different perspectives.
- I am also a writer, and I've written a few short stories, and now working on my first novella. I specifically like fantasy books, and this is most of my background, though my novella is not in that genre.
- I've also been a web-developer for a few years, and I've developed a few websites for clients and some personal projects. At the middle of my degree I moved on to teaching physics and math instead, since I find much more meaning in helping others get where they need to get.
- I am also a musician, and I play piano and accordion. I've been playing piano for almost twenty years, and my level in the instrument is much less then exepected. I've been playing accordion for a few years, and I also have a lot to learn in that instrument.
- In my service year I was a guide in the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI). I guided groups of kids and adults in the nature reserves, and I firmly believe that people are a part of nature, and that we would live better lives if we remember that.
- For the past seventeen years I have taken place in FIRST competitions, at the begining as a student as then as a mentor, a volunteer, a referee, a judge, a web developer, a translator, and a guide for mentors. Science and Technologies are important for human progress, but so are the values that we work with, and I believe FIRST puts an important emphasis on that point.
Now, with the degree about to finish, I'm looking forward to travel the world and see it for real. I haven't travelled much outside of Israel, and I think it's important to understand the world through different cultures and by meeting people from different places.