Why a field?
You can’t see a field.You only see what it moves.
I’m Maxwell. I study computer science, write, and build small tools for myself. This is where I put what I’ve been thinking about.
01 — Writing
Long, and rare.
Written in Chinese, each with a short English abstract.
02 — About
I’m Maxwell — born in 2005, grew up in Guangdong, now at school in southwest China. I’m curious about the world, and I like thinking about what things really are, underneath.
Right now
- Studying computer science — back at school this year.
- Remote work on Chinese speech data for AI.
- Building small tools for myself: an English reading marker, and a personal agent that keeps track of things.
- Writing a WeChat public account, in Chinese.
Questions I keep coming back to
- 01Once AI can do most things for us, what is still worth learning, and doing?
- 02Time, in physics — time dilation, time travel, the closed loops in Dark.
- 03An idea from psychology I can’t let go of: “what I should do” is often a brake, not an accelerator.
A while ago I posted an article about drinking water, and got my first comment. It was from a reader in their fifties, who said it was the first time they’d realised the way they drank water might have been wrong. For a moment I couldn’t quite believe it: something I wrote had actually helped someone.
Why a field
In 1865 James Clerk Maxwell described the electromagnetic field — something you never see directly, only through what it moves.
On the side
Cubing since primary school. Best 3×3: twenty-something seconds.
03 — Made
Small things, mostly for myself.
- Reading markerWhile reading English, I mark only two things: words I don’t know, and parts I don’t get. Then I go over them with AI.In use
- Personal agentAn agent that keeps track of things for me.In use
- 解压盒子 · ASMRTap a cluster of same-coloured bubbles; it bursts outward from your finger, one cell every 38 ms, the pitch sliding down.
- maxwell coffeeSeat picking and ordering for a café. The whole flow works, on mock data.
- timbreFive moods, each with its own colours, type and music. Pick one and the page follows.Open ↗
- street lens flowOne night of street photos, as an exhibition you keep scrolling.Open ↗