About

Hello,

I am Cyrus Foroudian, a UC Davis alumni, pretending to be the CTO of a small startup called Buzzit. By day I am exaggerating my busyness, by night I am playing volleyball likely injuring myself in some way, shape, or form. All jokes aside, I built this website to show my authentic self and the hobbies I fill my days with.

Elaborating on the sections of my website, first up…

Reading

Embarrassing as it is, reading has been a recent pickup of mine. In the last two months, I’ve consumed more literature than I had in the past six years before that, yikes. As one may guess, my reading comprehension has suffered tremendously because of my lack of attention to honing the skill. My goal is to fix that, not by forcing myself on some rigorous schedule of reading 50 pages a day, or finishing two books a month. Instead, I have found that reading as I please has kept it stress free making me more engaged. A few days here and there without touching a book, no worries. Fifty pages into a novel but it just doesn’t grab me, no worries I can put it down. By giving myself this freedom, it reframed my mindset from reading being a chore, to reading being a privilege.

Essays

I have always been someone who could talk for hours. I attribute it to my curiosity of the world and desire to not only consume, but to share knowledge as well. I’d say I inherited this from my father, the king of talking about the most random topics to a great deal of complexity, always interesting yet always uncalled for. No matter, the habit has passed down to me and I express it through my writing now. I have always believed that the most successful people’s greatest skill is their ability to articulate their thoughts. You look at the great minds of history, they all have a unique ability to create pictures in your head from nothing. Their words grip you. My goal, or excuse to yap, is to practice this skill hoping to one day reach a quarter, if that, of their abilities. That way I can wield the tools of speech to tame my mind and hopefully do some cool things in the future.

“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.”

I started practicing writing at the same time I began reading. Before, I used to scoff at the idea of writing for fun. Now it is my escape, my domain to go to for peace, my medium for thought.

Recipes

Food is so yummy. It should be talked about more, what more needs to be said.

Projects

I’ve been working as a full-stack developer for a few years now. Up until recently, it has always been very career oriented work. It wasn’t until I found things in my life that were so much more difficult than they needed to be, that I decided to just start building for myself too. This section will serve as a way to showcase the ideas that remedy all the inconveniences that annoy me enough to do something about it. Sprinkled in will be some other stuff, maybe some art projects, or garden works, time will tell.

~ Cyrus Agustin Foroudian