sangrhee

Sang Rhee

Hi, I'm Sang Rhee.

I'm a computer engineer and the founder of LazyDevz. I consider myself a seeker — since childhood I've been curious about how the world works, and I use computer engineering's theories and abstractions as tools to interpret it.

For my full background, see LinkedIn. For what I'm working on now, see lazydevz.com.

What is this site?

sangrhee.com is my open workshop for thinking — a seeker's open workshop.

Not a blog. Not a portfolio. Not a product site. It's a space where I stack up thoughts that come up as I live — publicly, for the sake of my own organization.

I registered the domain sangrhee.com in college and have kept it ever since. I never quite made it into something proper — now I'm pulling out thoughts that have been piling up in my head and in Notion, to polish them in public.

Why publish?

Thoughts kept private never get another pass. But the moment I think someone might read them, I revise a sentence again, find holes in my logic, fill in the leaps.

That's this site's starting principle: "Writing for self, polishing for others." I write for myself, but a reader being able to understand it is the baseline for polishing. Publishing isn't the goal — it's the lever for organization.

Raw writing stays raw

Most writing sites show only the polished pieces. This site goes the other way. From fragments I scribbled this morning to thoughts I've chewed over for years, all of it is visible.

Rough writing is rough because it really is. Instead of hiding it, I attach context with a small badge: "this one is still a seed." So you can read it without confusion.

That's this site's second principle, Radical transparency.

The classification is for me, not for readers

Every post is classified along four axes — Type, Maturity, Permanence, Tags. The homepage tabs and filters are derived from these.

This classification is the index of my external brain. It's the tool I use when I ask myself, "what did I write about X?" Reader convenience isn't the priority. But because it's public, readers can also navigate my thought-terrain through the same index.

The system itself evolves over time. That's the third principle, Living structure.

How to read the badges

The small badges on each post are the legend for this site. Four things to know.

Type — What form is the post?

  • Observation · Capturing a moment. Diary, short note.
  • Musing · An open thought experiment. Ending with a question, not an answer, is the form's completion.
  • Essay · Structured and written through to the end.
  • Belief · "I believe this." A declarative speech act.
  • Inquiry · External knowledge organized through my lens.

Maturity — How honed is it?

A plant-growth metaphor, 1 to 5.

  • 🌱 Seed · A fragment jotted down. Unrevised.
  • 🌿 Sprout · Read once and tidied.
  • 🌳 Sapling · Structured and refined.
  • 🌸 Blossom · Revised many times; no longer shy to share.
  • 🍎 Fruit · Solid enough to be a chapter in a book.

Seeds aren't hidden. The seed state itself is a record.

Permanence — Timeless or of the moment?

  • Timeless · Wisdom or principle I believe holds regardless of when it's read.
  • Temporal · What I see now, the feeling of this moment, era-dependent observations.

When unsure, the default is temporal. Only time proves what graduates to timeless.

Tags — Topics

Free-form topic labels. 1–5 per post.

When you meet a maturity-1 raw post, I hope these badges help you read it as "ah, this is a seed," not "why is this so rough?"

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