hey, it’s me, max. what are the haps?

this is my personal website. i feel some ways about personal websites, like that they are “pointless” or “not worth spending my time on”. but, uh, hmm.

currently

recently, i have been identifying myself as a full-time student of house dance. besides practicing dance, i can regularly be found eating things and rubbing my face on interesting fabrics.

i spend a good deal of time not doing much of anything. my personal enlightenment came of trying to decouple my life from the productivity grind i spent most of it conditioned for. now i strive for little and i accomplish who cares; the purpose of life is to live. i enjoy apprehending beauty, talking with friends, and engaging with stuff attentively and with conviction.

other stuff i do or have done somewhat recently includes reading and occassionally writing poetry, vocal training, making music, and dance videography. i also irregularly play magic: the gathering and pokémon go.

group identity

i used to believe very deeply that my identity is something that resides wholly in others’ perceptions of me, and i was very pressed about it. now i guess i still believe this, but am ok, instead of not ok.

so anyway, here are some of the communities that contain “me”:

for a long while i described myself as a “recent harvard grad”, but have appropriately stopped doing so. i went to school for english, took math classes, decided to major in chemistry, and wound up with a computer science degree. i spent a lot of my time at harvard with the harvard university band, and i conducted said band in my final semesters.

after harvard, i ended up in the tech industry. i spent my entire tenure on facebook’s hhvm compiler team. i have since left fb for a new career in unemployment.

before all that, i attended the center for talented youth over several summers in lancaster, pa, where i held the duck. i maintain RealCTY, the CTY wiki.

elsewhere in life, i helped run valor of boston, which pre-pandemic was one of boston’s largest pokémon go communities. i also danced with and produced videos for MIT’s ADT though i have otherwise no affiliation with MIT (unless the school up the river counts, which i suppose it could).

testimonials

so what do other people have to say about this “max wang” guy, like, what’s he all about?

who does this guy think he is? james buckland

turkey exonerated a kestrel accused of spying for israel, and indian scientists confirmed that bright lights detected over indian airspace and suspected of being chinese drones were in fact jupiter and venus. anonymous

max you spelled my name wrong. scott johnson

you should piece together some choice quotes from a Q review or something. anonymous

there are other people about whom i have worse things to say. anonymous

we’re all born ted cruz and we all aspire to become max wang. my ex-girlfriend

i heard he recently started a blog. garrett morton