about me
who are you?1
I go by you. The logo, U高, is just my first and last name (you gao). I’ll try to give a comprehensive answer to “who i am” by stating my preferences along with some factoids and letting you do the work of psychoanalyzing me.
preferences
- I like fighting games.
- I like autochess.
- Snorlax is my favorite pokemon.
- Favorite aesthetic is minimalism.
- Favorite art movement is Bauhaus.
- Favorite flavor of anything is mango.
- Coke over Pepsi.
- Cats over dogs.
factoids
- I would consider myself a constructive empiricist.
- I have played 10+ MMOs.
- Majored computer science and global development “studies”.
- I’ve watched Smiling Friends s1-s2 many times.
- Spotify says I listen to 60+ genres.
- I own 5+ mechanical keyboards.
- My desktop is catpuccin themed.
why are you writing?
The reason I started this blog was to explore the random thoughts I had. Any blog post then was written because it contained ideas that were interesting, perplexing, and usually existential, or funny; enough so that it warranted me spending time to write about it.
why the selection?
The blog was categorized into motifs (fun, books, me, work, images) as they were things I frequently encountered throughout my life. Within each motif, you will find posts containing my reflections and perspectives on whatever idea I have decided to blabber about. and if I turn out to be a decent blogger, there is something tangible to take away.
Enjoy the site, no matter how you have stumbled onto this crevice of the internet.
should you blog?
There are existing lists for this, but I thought it’d be fun to compile my own:
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Writing an about me is hard because I think the nature of the self isn’t fixed. ↩