About Dean

Hello, I’m Dean — a writer, mentor, and educator.

I grew up between Asia and the United States. Moving across cultures shaped how I read and interpret the world. It taught me early that meaning often resides beneath the surface, in structure rather than display.

I graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Political Economy. My formal education extended into philosophy, literature, and political thought. I took far more courses than required, not to accumulate credentials, but to pursue coherence. Writing was central to that pursuit. It disciplined my thinking and forced clarity upon complexity.

I began my professional career at PwC in Silicon Valley, working alongside engineers, consultants, and entrepreneurs. There I saw that clear reasoning and precise language often mattered more than technical fluency. The ability to structure problems determined whether ideas survived in the real world. That realization eventually led me away from corporate life and toward education.

I have been teaching since 2012. My work focuses on structural reading, disciplined reasoning, and the formation of intellectual voice. Students do not learn formulas. They learn to trace causality, examine assumptions, and build arguments with coherence and integrity.

We engage texts ranging from classical epics to modern existential literature, not for test preparation, but to sharpen perception and deepen judgment. Writing, in this context, is not merely a skill. It is a method of thinking and a practice of self-examination.

My teaching has been shaped by writers such as Camus, Kafka, Kundera, Goethe, Schopenhauer, and Thomas Mann. From them I learned that writing carries ethical weight. Clarity is responsibility. Precision is discipline.

Education, at its best, is not information transfer. It is the slow formation of mind.