This is the first post on my personal blog. I've wanted a place to write informally about things I'm thinking about — outside of the structured format of papers and presentations.
What I'll write about
I plan to use this space for a few different things:
- Research notes — ideas I'm exploring, things that confused me, things that clicked.
- Paper readings — short summaries and takeaways from papers I find interesting.
- Grad school reflections — lessons learned as a first-year PhD student.
- Misc — books, chess games, anything else worth sharing.
Why write at all?
Writing forces clarity. When I try to explain something in words, I quickly discover which parts I actually understand and which parts I've been glossing over. I hope these posts will be useful to others, but honestly they're primarily for me.
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." — attributed to Einstein
See you in the next post.