Retired future poker player, impending nomadic uncle, aspiring intentional liver

In an even earlier lifetime, I was a data scientist and quit my corporate job to play poker. But then, I realized all I did was swap my corporate treadmill for a competitive-gaming exercise bike, and that I hadn't actually solved the incongruence of driving to the gym and taking the elevator to get on an exercise machine to work off all the processed foods I stress ate. So now I'm walking outside instead, constantly checking how much longer it'll be until I've reached my step goal for the day.

(To be clear, this is all strictly a metaphor. I've never actually been motivated to go to the gym consistently; I have a very high metabolism that tricked me into thinking I was healthy when I wasn't. Also, my metaphors may need work).

In case the past few paragraphs were extraordinarily confusing, basically I spent the past couple of years studying (running programs/developing strategies/memorizing decision trees) and playing poker because I wanted to see how good I could be at something that matched my skillset. At the same time, after working a lot on my mental and emotional health, I've ultimately realized my poker goals were no longer that important to me. So for now, I've become interested in traveling and seeing the world, and I'm posting this now right 6 months into my roadtrip (Utah Wyoming Montana Washington NPs => PCH down to San Diego => New Mexico currently. Side note: always happy to hear any travel recommendations).

Longer term, I know that I'll likely want to be geographically flexible. I'm not sure for how long I'll want to travel and/or if I'll eventually want to establish a more permanent base. I'll likely be interested in having children at some point, because I find children to be wonderful learning beings and I'd like to help with and be a part of that process, but as I've learned over the years, I never truly know what future me wants. No matter how convinced I am at any moment that past me was wrong but that this time, present me is completely right, I know it's all a trick. I think.

A mostly unordered list of a few (/many?) more things about me:

• I'm 32, 5'8, 150 lbs, and Chinese American

• I'm passionate about learning in general (recently, especially about how/what/why people think) but am even more so about sharing everything I learn with other people (but having to tone it down because no, my friends don't always want to read 500-word essays on obscure niche topics because no one is as excited about the brain's default mode network, the viability of gift economies, or basketball analytics as me)

• Some of my favorite TV shows have been The Good Place, Sex Education, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, As We See It, and Atypical. I usually read non-fiction (i.e. Antifragile, Civilized to Death, The Untethered Soul), but one piece of fiction I particularly enjoyed recently is Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (related: if you like to teasingly mock everyone and everything, I will like you)

• I both practice time-restricted eating (usually a 6-7 hour window) and routinely eat 60 pieces of sushi at AYCE sushi

• I'm in a constant battle with people's names, so I've been known to refer to people by descriptors until it becomes too cumbersome to say "my friend's sister's boyfriend" repeatedly in a story. Especially if he also has a sister.

• I love sharing stories, but also, I'm an especically confusing story-teller. There's often really no sensical reason to the order in which I say things. And my sentences will often have way too many clauses.

Anyways, if any of this is interesting, please send me a PM/chat! I'm hoping to find someone special that I connect with. In any case, also happy to just chat with people, as I understand weird can be both interesting and also a little scary