sissi

hello. i'm (find me: linkedin, github, x (twitter), email [email protected], book a meeting on cal.com)1 (a big head of mine: grey cap, glasses, looking down at the camera). i grew up in an urban village the stone marker of 向南村 (xiangnan village), the urban village i grew up in in shenzhen little me in shenzhen, school uniform, throwing peace signs and now live in san francisco founders inc: two white buildings joined by a sky bridge, the first place in san francisco that felt like home (i have a lot of hearts2). i like moomins little my, snufkin and moomin sitting together (about moomintroll, on moomin.com) and minions a small minion toy from a mcdonald's happy meal: yellow, big goggles, blue overalls, an orange crank in one hand, standing on a wooden table. my dad got it for me (photo: sissi) and am a little of both3.

ask me about “the world is a paidia4,” richard feynman richard feynman at a chalkboard, mid-gesture, my idol and the og, dishbrain two neurons under a fluorescence microscope, glowing blue, pink and orange, and next‑gen actuators a silver robot actuator: a round motor drum with a bolt-hole flange for humanoids. i build beautiful things, hitchhike5, yap, write sometimes, consume a lot (cover of how to travel with a salmon by umberto eco), swim swimmers diving off the blocks at the start of a race semi-professionally, have a lot of fun6, and collect wonderful humans me and a friend grinning at the camera, one of the wonderful humans.

footnotes

  1. just a girl with a dream. ↩
  2. they say, home is where your heart is. ↩
  3. “Now I’ve got everything. I’ve got the whole year. Winter too. I’m the first Moomin to have lived through an entire year.” (Moominland Midwinter, 1957) ↩
  4. paidia: “a word covering the spontaneous manifestations of the play instinct.” ↩
  5. brushed steel house numbers 42, cut out from a photo of a door in amsterdam (photo: andré van b, cc by-sa 2.0) 42: the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything (the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, douglas adams). ↩
  6. what i'm here for! ↩