🌱 Outside research, I run and wander around the world.
Occasionally, I doodle and paint. While ago, I was a part of the college dance crew.
📖 Nowadays, I often turn to reading in my spare time. Books I read in 2023:
- A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
- The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
📚 Reading also helps me navigate writer's block. I enjoy deconstructing the phrases and sentence, and am often captivated by the silent power of human languages.
Here are some great books that come readily to my mind.
Physics, psychology, and philosophy
- The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung
- Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler
- Incognito by David Eagleman
History
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- 1587: A Year of No Significance by Ray Huang
Novels
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li
- 务虚笔记 by Shi Tiesheng
Writing and productivity
- On Writing Well by William Zinsser
- Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams
In the future, I may try to unleash my words beyond academic papers.
🎮 Sometimes, I play cozy/casual games on Switch. My recent go-to is Dave the Diver.
🐱 Back in 2017, amidst a thunderstorm evening in Washington D.C., I adopted a cat named Missy. Since then, she has traveled and lived in different places on the earth, including Maryland, Pennsylvania, California, and Hong Kong.
