Welcome to my digital vault.

My name’s Yurui.

I was born in Beijing, raised in Sydney, and now live in Cambridge, MA, where I’m a student at Harvard College in a self-designed concentration called Rationality and Decision Theory. I enjoy thinking about interesting questions across philosophy, cognitive science, mathematics, and economics in order to understand how minds make judgements under uncertainty

This site is a home for thoughts and stories from my life. You’ll find essays on decision-making, literature, beauty, and time intertwined with reflections from travel, notes on my research, and fragments of a naive life spent trying to understand the world and the mind that perceives it. I try to collect some of these ideas and examine them before they disappear.

Some pieces here are polished. Most aren’t. Some are essays and others are word vomits. I enjoy reading my older works and seeing how I’ve changed since. My writing forms a traceable map of my personal growth across continents and comprise the ideas, experiences, and questions that have shaped me. I believe in writing now more than ever and think that personal websites will be the last bastion of pure human expression.

I speak English, Mandarin, and a bit of Italian. I also read Classical Latin. In my spare time, you'll find me in the gym, at the poker table, on the tennis court, fishing at dusk, chasing a sunset, or reading a book. “Or eating” - my roommate.

I have two younger brothers. Perhaps one day they’ll stumble across this site, a microcosm of their older brother’s mind, even from halfway across the world.