A high-school student from Shanghai, fascinated by psychology — how people learn, feel, and heal. I design and ship real products that turn ideas from cognitive science into things people can actually use.
A WeChat column I write in Chinese: short essays on life, philosophy and psychology, usually starting from something small nearby that struck me as romantic or strange enough to think about properly — and where the tools on this site come from.
Scan on WeChatI'm Elena — a high-school student in Shanghai. I'm drawn to psychology: how people think, feel, learn, and heal. That curiosity is the thread running through everything I build.
What keeps coming back in my work is one question: how do people actually understand — and feel — something? The Feynman Technique — "if you can teach it simply, you truly understand it" — became the seed for my first product, and the same instinct shaped the others: turning ideas from cognitive science into tools people can hold in their hands.
Away from the screen, I love writing fiction — inventing characters and living inside their heads for a while. To me, storytelling and psychology are chasing the same thing from different directions: what it's really like to be another person.
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