Reading Time: 2 minutes Tom Krause – CEO, Cloud Software Group – finance guy – Princeton U alumni – Now you know not all ivies have high moral standards, because Tom is obviously a #muskrat or a fat cat in the corporate world (ABS News). Quote the ABC news article a bit: One former Cloud Software Group employee said

Reading Time: < 1 minute Not financial advice. This is the most important thing you need to know. Your money your decision. Try not to be forever diver 不要做永远♾️的潜水员.  02-15-2025 1. Be happy; 2. 赚钱是王道：don’t lose money; 3. Refer to rule 1 and 2.  01-16-2025 My top 3 stock positions (excluding the stocks indirectly hold in various S&P 500 index funds): brk/b, KO and OXY .  Some learning resource: 活到老学到老：这一点也很重要，沃伦巴菲特和查理芒格都是学习机器。他俩主要的学习手段是读书，读年报，在加上自己独立思考。 Warren Buffett reads a lot of company’s annual reports: mostly to learn.  I found listening to companies’ Earning call to be educational sometimes –  EARNMOAR – YouTube  Fyfull – YouTube   奶头乐级别: “NaNa 说美股” 每天市场评述，mainly entertainment value –  ;  “小lin说” various topics, mainly entertainment and education value –  个人感觉小林讲的一般不深奥，主要是入门知识，但是她讲的还是有干货的； 美国年轻人Joseph Carlson Show and Joseph Carlson After Hours 他好像有两个频道 – stocks, food for thought – 比如这个油管视频：   Please note one goal for many content creators including YouTubers is getting eyeballs 👀 👁️ and making💰. So keep this in my mind when you consume the online content.  我又想了一下。我觉得网上多数视频包括CNBC Jim Cramer 的mad money，包括Nana 的油管每天更新，还有其它很多，教育或有启发的东西不是很多。娱乐的成分倒是不少。可能有点这个短视频的”奶头乐”的味道吧。或者相当于麦当劳🍔的快餐。光吃那个或天天吃那个可能不是最健康：因为营养成分不够丰富。还是要自己做饭，或吃一些更健康的食品（少吃垃圾食品，少喝可乐等等）[捂脸][呲牙]  Together let’s share some 💡 and make some 💰.  We try to keep the America (US) politics at a minimum here.  I believe everyone is entitled to her or his opinion including political views and affiliation.  But those are best kept to yourself. Probably religion too.  I recall 20+ years ago one golden rule is not to talk politics and religion at work.  Also, we will try to keep out many fake stuffs on Internet or from social medias. PS: Hard core MAGAs may find it hard to stay there sometimes because I am “woke”, or Hua Zuo

Reading Time: < 1 minute What doesn’t kill us can only made us stronger — German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche — his original words are: “Out of life’s school of war—what doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger.” Five years ago today, 01-23-2019, Wednesday, I was laid off from the company I worked for about 3 and half years. I saved the

Reading Time: 4 minutes Chinese version (translated by Google) is here: 谷歌翻译的中文版在这里。 Turbo Tax web vs Desktop I switched from Turbo Tax Web version to Desktop version in last 4 years. The main reason is the latter is cheaper (if we consider both the state and tax). It’s probably $40 to $50 cheaper. Before the switch I used the

Reading Time: 3 minutes BYD is offering a self-driving feature for all. That could be trouble for Tesla. Below is what I got from googling when using “Tesla self driving timeline” as search keywords. I think we all know Tesla is the de facto leader of EV and autonomous driving: I believe they like to use the term Full

Reading Time: 2 minutes About 13 years ago, I worked at coal mining company, followed by a hospital chain, both in their IT departments. It was President Obama’s 1st and 2nd term. I worked for Arch Coal (I just fount out they merged with Consol Energy and formed as Core Natural Resources) between 01/2012 and 04/2013, and worked for

Reading Time: 2 minutes I talked a quite a bit on this topic recently, and I think it’s also important to put things in perspective, especially across the different geographical regions on the global, also looking back to the history. Two most important things Stop doom scrolling, and try to get some physical active time. I talked about this

Reading Time: < 1 minute Secrecy preceded the shutdown of the consumer protection agency’s Washington headquarters | AP News (TechCrunch) The biggest breach of US government data is under way (KTSM) 5 questions about DOGE’s access to federal payment systems DOGE or not, personally, I am curious how they restore the health website – Judge orders restoration of federal health

Reading Time: 3 minutes 油管：文革和红卫兵 : I personally don’t have much memory of Culture Revolution (文化大革命）。 But I do recall the time when chairman Mao died. It was like one of the supreme leader in North Korea died. I was 5 years old. I started school when I was 7 years old: we didn’t have kindergarten, and I started

Reading Time: 2 minutes I was fairly active online, including on LinkedIn. I started on LinkedIn on fall 2008, about 16 or 17 years ago: mainly for job and networking purpose. But recently I noticed a minor problem I had after I posted my Calendly link. And I liked to get back to the LinkedIn post and edit it: