名 · NameWhat do I mean when I say “I”?
Kumma
Kumma Wu · Los Angeles
What is it
to be aware?
I believe imagination participates in the making of reality. I want to understand the self I observe, and let that understanding change how I live.
I write, build software, and explore sound, movement, and imagined worlds. I read, train, and trade. These pages hold work and questions I’m still living with.
主 · AgencyI listen to the world and answer for my own choices.
Before I call a choice my own, I want to notice what is moving me.
Reacting — strike out the “re” to leave “acting.”
Draw a line through the “Re”.
主體 Agency: to be the subject of your own sentence, not its object.
Habit and other people’s expectations can move me before I have asked whether I agree.
I want to notice those influences, choose what I will act on, and answer for the consequences.
知 · UnderstandingSome things I understand long before I can live them.
Understanding arrives first.
The bodycatches up.
I can understand an idea and still meet the same situation with an old response.
I return to that gap through practice: noticing what I do, trying again, and letting experience revise what I thought I knew.
步 · StepsWhat changes when I return?
Three steps forward, two back.
習 · PracticeReading, making, trying again.
- 01Train.Most days. Returning to what the body learns through doing.
- 02Trade.Decisions under uncertainty, with consequences I have to accept.
- 03Build.Tools, systems, and imagined worlds. Making room for both use and play.
- 04Study.Philosophy, religion, and history. Reading sources, comparing interpretations, and writing through my own questions.
I’ve come to realize that emotions aren’t enemies. They’re simply parts of ourselves—just the parts that are more honest, less rehearsed.
Returning to the same work can reveal something I missed before.
律 · MeasureWhat is enough, and when should I stop?
Three reminders from my trading practice
Don’t chase.
Stay small.
Stay bored.
In trading, I use these reminders to keep risk bounded and notice when urgency begins to make the decision for me.
Their usefulness has a context. Beyond trading, I keep asking: when does a rule help me see clearly, and when do I stop looking because I have a rule?
理 · ReasonI can observe the person I call myself.
What remainsawarewhen the “I” falls quiet?
I believe imagination participates in the making of reality.
I can observe the person I call myself. I keep asking what it means to live from that awareness.
道
To find my true self, and let that change how I live.
I want to meetthe worldwith love.
If something here stays with you, I’d like to hear it.