About Me

I like math, programming and writing, among many other things, but I don't see myself as a mathematician, a programmer or a writer, at least I try not to. Learning and hoarding skills, too often for their own sake, motivates me much more than the goal of becoming a 10x programmer or a serious writer.

By nature I am a wild person and any sense of constraints or discipline makes me nervous. Luckily I stumbled into the profession of programming and it forces me to sit down and sort things out, put things in order and execute -- it's quite a nice counter balance to my predisposition to go free.

Writing, on the other hand, let me enjoy the moment. In writing out whatever comes to my mind, my mind becomes clear. It serves like another form of meditation for me. I used to take writing as a way of understanding -- write to understand, then write to communicate -- the conventional and practical meaning and purpose of writing. But recently, under the influence of Norman Fischer, I begin to feel his feeling of a writer and poet -- write to live: if you don't write, you don't feel like living.