NOTE: If you came to this page from the news that I left Posit in 2024, I just want to let you know that I no loner need sponsorship now. I have started doing some contract work with Swiss Re and Merck, which should be enough for me and my family to live comfortably. I really appreciate the amazing help from the community. I was deeply moved, and will definitely continue to contribute to open source (in particularly, R packages and tools). Thank you very much!

You can largely ignore the rest of this page, unless you are really interested in the other side of me, on which I don't really have any expectations and I hope you don't, either.

I started blogging in 2005 and have written about 1500 posts (Chinese: https://yihui.org/cn/; English: https://yihui.org/en/). I wonder if it's worth putting together some posts and self-publishing them as books. In addition, I also became interested in writing novels after I wrote my first story "Night Shadows in Denver". I'd like to experiment more in this direction. I'm curious about a different life with writing books, especially non-technical books such as novels, poetry, and kids stories. The language will primarily be Chinese (because it's my native language) but I can also consider English if there is demand.

Below is a list of books and topics that I'm highly interested in:

• A collection of a thousand (fictional) letters, each with a song from my vocal recording
• The fun of cooking
• Old memories of friends, family members, and neighbors
• How to recover from the habit of mixing too many English words into Chinese in daily conversations among Chinese
• Reading notes
• Essays on daily life
• Self-help
• Shadows and Rain in Denver
• Stories of/for my kids

If you are interested, please don't use Github Sponsorship (since it will be treated as my taxable income), but the following ways to sponsor me instead:

• Venmo: @yihui_xie, or Zelle: xie@yihui.name

• Paypal

  • If you have a Paypal account, you can follow the link https://paypal.me/YihuiXie or find me on Paypal via my email xie@yihui.name. Please choose the payment type as "Family and Friends" (instead of "Goods and Services") to avoid extra fees.

  • If you don't have Paypal, you may donate through this link via your debit or credit card. Paypal will charge a fee on my side.

• Other ways:

  WeChat Pay (微信支付：谢益辉)	Alipay (支付宝：谢益辉)

When sending money, please be sure to add a note "gift" or "donation" if possible, so it won't be treated as my taxable income but a genuine gift. Needless to say, donation is completely voluntary and I appreciate any amount you can give.

I'll give back a significant portion of the donations to the open-source community and charities. For the record, I received about $30,000 in total (before tax) in 2024-25, and gave back about $15,000 (after tax).

写了十几年日志、积攒了三百多万字后，我也想尝试一种新的职业可能，那就是专职写书，尤其是非技术性的书。虽然我对这个可能性颇为怀疑（市场需求可能不会大到能让我全职来写），但我还是打算在此探探路。目前我已经挑选了一部分日志排好一本诗集《他乡遇故吃》，接下来我还有以下感兴趣的主题：

• 《千语千信》：用一千封信和一千首歌表达我对世间种种悲欢离合的感受
• 《厨房记趣》：下厨的乐趣和心得
• 《旧处寻行迹》：忆旧的散文杂篇
• 《中英混杂康复指南》：帮中国人说一口、写一手流利的中文
• 读书笔记和心得
• 日常生活散文杂文
• 自我成长（心理、哲学等）
• 《丹佛雨影》：将《丹佛夜影》的后两篇《丹佛夜雨》《丹佛夜咏》写完，完成三部曲
• 《呆头懵脑》：给自家娃写的故事

若有兴趣，请用以下方式支持我，而不要用 Github Sponsorship，因为它会被视作我的收入，向 IRS 解释和证明这是捐赠实在太麻烦。

微信	← 奋力支开它俩 →	支付宝
	其它爱心通道 ↓ Venmo: @yihui_xie Zelle: xie@yihui.name PayPal: xie@yihui.name

若使用 Venmo/Zelle/Payapl，请添加备注“gift”或“donation”，以免捐赠被视为我的可税收入。若使用 Paypal，支付类型请选 Family and Friends，而不要选 Goods and Services。

在不影响生活的前提下，我会将收到的捐赠以尽量大的比例回馈给开源社区和慈善机构。作为参考，2024-25 年间，我一共收到约三万美元捐赠，完税后我捐出了一万五千美元。