Journey
Two tracks in parallel: a sequence of roles, and an open-source thread that has run alongside since 2013. Select a segment to see the work it left behind.
–2009 · China
Psychologist
Where it started: psychology — and a quick turn from Freud toward the scientific method.
- Origin Testing a black box
It began with Freud and the meaning of dreams — a cliché — but the scientific side of psychology drew me in fast: how do you observe, test, and theorize about a black box without being fooled by your own blind spots? I was a beginner in statistics, but already taken with how a well-designed experiment can surface a reliable signal from mostly noise.
- Papers
- Control deprivation and styles of thinking — Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2012
About
The roles above change — psychologist, neuroscientist, open-source developer, data scientist — but the habit of mind hasn't: reason under uncertainty, update on evidence, and get good at things the slow way, by repetition.
Lately I'm preoccupied with how knowledge actually gets made when you work with an AI agent — and the more I do it, the more it rhymes with the managing and mentoring I do at Google. The craft is the same: a well-defined goal, a precise ask, and feedback that's timely and clear — the reasoning, not just a yes or no. Do that, and you grow as much as the people (or agents) you're guiding. The back-and-forth is a knowledge-building process. More on this soon 👀