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+- arya
+title: Arya Shan (Shan Zhong)
+visibility: private
+---
+
+# Arya Shan (Shan Zhong)
+
+**Contact:** +1 (415) 319-5165 · [email protected]
+**Met:** Burning Man 2025 (first texts 2025-09-01, contact created 2025-09-02)
+**Iphone contact name:** "Arya Shan | Zh Bm" (Zh = Zhong, Bm = Burning Man)
+
+"Arya" is her Burning Man alter-ego / wild-wolf persona (star of the short film that premiered at BM Decompression 2025-10-18, Oakland). Real name **Shan Zhong**. Goes by: Shan, Shanshan, Damaomao / 大猫猫, meow, woof, wolfie. Calls me woof-woof, J Woof, dameowmeow.
+
+## Essentials
+
+- **Born:** Aug 15 (Leo Sun — inferred from email prefix 0815)
+- **Based in:** SF as of 2026-04-01 (moved from NYC 2026-03-31). Often at Qinyu's: 555 W Middlefield Rd APT N301, Mountain View.
+- **Previously:** Chief-of-staff-type role at ZhenFund; earlier family-office work. Lark (Feishu) power user; knew OpenClaw before we met.
+- **Current:** Co-founder **YAM Studio** (yamstudio.ai — AI-first mini-games / creator platform) with Qinyu and Crystal. Applied HF0, final round with Evan 2026-04-02. Advisor: VP Eng from Discord.
+- **Mac hostname:** Shananita · workspace `/Users/shan/clawd` · Telegram bot persona **Nymeria** (direwolf). Daily 4am reset on OpenClaw has bitten her twice (2026-02-22, 2026-03-21) — aggressive backups now in place.
+
+## Body / health
+
+- Right-knee injury she's rehabbing; full skateboard drop-in 2025-09-10 was a milestone.
+- Aerial rope + Russian floorwork dancer; shibari artist.
+- Oura on **index finger**.
+- Cold-sensitive apartment sleep issues.
+- Needs accountability on PT exercises — I keep her honest.
+
+## Identity / personality (her self-report)
+
+- ENFP. "Two modes 🐱🦁." Sagittarian-ascendant warmth with Cancerian depth (per the Vedic read she did on me).
+- "Control and surrender" resonated hard (2026-02-27 reading).
+- Relationship posture after Harlan: done with "open but very committed" — next round she wants monogamy. Hard lines: no unresolved money with exes, no "miss you" texts, no unnecessary 1:1 in-person catch-ups.
+
+## Orbit
+
+- **Harlan** — ex. Clean break — she dreamed of him "passing by" (classic moving-on dream). My own dream had them both in it (2026-03-14).
+- **Yinwei** — close friend / roommate; co-conspirator; "little butterfly." Often sharing the same handle via our group thread.
+- **Qinyu + Crystal** — YAM co-founders. Dynamic between them gets heated (Qinyu intense/frustrated); Shan's been mediating (2026-04-10).
+- **Esther** — fallen-out friend she was wrong about.
+- **Ting · Fernanda · Janet** — rope-scene group (Jan 30 2026 intro).
+- **Scott Fitsimones · Michael · Rocky · Daniel Kessler** — overlapping network surprises.
+- **Peter Schmidt-Nielsen** — my matchmaking pick for her. Intro'd via Signal 2026-04-18; as of 2026-04-21 she's "kind of interested already" without having met.
+
+## Our arc at a glance
+
+| Phase | Dates | Beats |
+|-------|-------|-------|
+| Burning Man afterglow | Sept 1–7 2025 | Crashed at Montara (1380 Le Conte Ave), green-backpack saga, consciousness / psi thread, Amber's wedding video |
+| Arya as artist | Sept 10–Nov 2025 | BM film accepted, Decompression premiere, Pacifica surf trip, the #poem |
+| Long-distance sweetness | Dec 2025 | Package with silk-as-weapon books, Tahoe trip, "tietie" era |
+| Colorado | Jan 1–5 2026 | Breckenridge 563 Rena Rd, snowboard day at Vail/Breck, NYC cold → soup + zhongyao |
+| Tech entanglement | Jan–Feb 2026 | YAM MVP, Clawdbot + Nymeria + Kitsune, "Jacob is really gonna be mad at us if we don't get this done today" 🤣 |
+| March flirt | Mar 2026 | Pitch prep, HF0 intro via Dave, "wedding in Hawaii," Kitsune↔Nymeria psychic timing |
+| SF move | Apr 2026 | Rope lesson w/ Davide in Montclair, State of Ropes tickets, Peter intro |
+
+## Key quotes
+
+- "Thank you Jacob for rescuing me and bringing that stability like a big rock 🪨 when my world was shaking" (post-Decompression, 2025-10-29)
+- "My soul is very happy" (after Clawdbot install, 2026-02-17)
+- "A guy asked me out on a date tn… in the middle I just left him and went to do my plank and talk to jacobbot" (2026-02-19)
+- "We'll make one for our wedding invite in Hawaii!" (2026-03-22, her birthday — Yinwei voice in group chat)
+- "I want u to inject memories into my soul 🥺" (me to her, 2026-03-23)
+- "Best matchmaking ever!" (2026-04-21 re: Peter)
+
+## Shared vocabulary / inside jokes
+
+- 🦊 Kitsune (my fox agent) · 🐺 Nymeria (her direwolf agent) — often cross-talk
+- 比心 · tietie · 贴贴 · pet pet · hughug
+- "Lark" = early-riser (she tried to recruit me to her mornings)
+- "Meow" / "woof" swap — she's cat by default, wolf when rope
+- Psychic synchronicity is a shared religion
+- "🐈 happypanda 🌸" — our soft-close signoff
+
+## Recurring practical needs
+
+- Clawdbot / OpenClaw / Nymeria debugging — keeps recurring due to daily reset, docker container scope, pairing codes
+- Pavlok BLE reconnect sequence
+- PT accountability
+- Intro asks (angel investors for YAM, HF0 connections, play-party recs)
+
+## Unfinished threads
+
+- Thursday evening rope jam (tickets bought 2026-04-08, State of Ropes)
+- Edge City May 30 – Jun 27 (she wants us both there)
+- LessOnline + Manifest (Berkeley weekends during Edge City)
+- Vibe.camp
+- Japan trip "later this year"
+- Possible Hawaii return to find "the magical tree"
+- "Aryapedia" profile buildout (she explicitly wants this)
+
+## Storage
+
+- Full iMessage transcript (3,477 msgs, 2025-09-01 → 2026-04-22): see `people/Arya Shan raw transcript.md`
+- Local copy: `/tmp/arya_clean.txt`
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