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 ideas across philosophy, cognitive science, mathematics, and economics 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, conversations, classes, and research. I try to collect some of these ideas and preserve them before they disappear.

Most pieces here aren’t polished. Some are essays and others are thought vomits. However, I enjoy reading my older pieces and understanding how I’ve changed since. I think that my writing forms a traceable map of my personal growth across continents, and believe in the importance of writing now, more than ever. I think personal websites are the last bastion of original human expression.

I speak English, Mandarin, and a bit of Italian. I also read Classical Latin and am learning Ancient Greek. In my spare time, you'll find me in the gym, at the poker table, on the tennis court, fishing at dusk, or reading a book. “Or eating”, according to my roommates.

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.