My name is Woohyeuk (a.k.a. Kevin) Lee, currently a Ph. D. student at the UT School of Information.
I named this website “pstore”—short for persistent storage—because operating systems was my favorite course during undergrad, and one of my lasting takeaways was the nontriviality of designing persistence—making information last for a long time. Unintended, but it also sounds like someone saying “peace to earth” very fast.
Since the brain is an unreliable persistent storage, I treat my notes as offloading my memory. However, to mimic more of the way my brain thinks and processes information, notes have wiki-style links that create relationships between information. I write notes in this fashion on the markdown editor Obsidian, and publish it on GitHub Pages through Quartz, which is kindly built and maintained by Jacky et al.. I am aiming to follow the Zettelkasten method described in How to Take Smart Notes as closely as possible in my daily notetaking practice.
Below are three of my current projects:
- DIY AI: meaningful innovation with open-weight models
- UAM: innovating democratic deliberation
- Machine Refusal: studying the effects of different refusal deliveries
And some fun:
