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: 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: 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:
Reading Time: < 1 minute 对过去的留恋可能是人之常情，尤其是对上了年纪的人（大概过了50岁的人可以说是上了年纪？），还有一些曾经辉煌，现在落魄的人。 有一个例子是鲁迅笔下的祥林嫂。实际生活中其实这种情况不少。我感觉我自己有时候也会说/想：想当年，我年轻的时候，blah blah blah. 最近 formerly executive assistant at square, sorry I could not find her profile on LinkedIn now, as I unfollowed her recently. Due to LinkedIn’s algorithm (or AI), it seems quite hard for me to find her again (refer to my recent blog post re: LinkedIn’s search-ability). PS (02-09-2025) I gave it
Reading Time: 3 minutes By Chinese I meant Mandarin Chinese. First, please note in this list I am not going to comment on those 键政 (literally translation: keyboard politicking, or discuss politics via keyboard, link here is from Wikipedia). Not a complete list. Will be updated from time to time. There are a few special topics such as finance
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 02-19-2025 Wednesday) It feels like there are suddenly way more plane crashes and incidents. Here’s the truth Deadly small plane collision in Arizona, officials say (CBS News via YT). (Update 02-17-2025 Monday) Delta plane upside down in Toronto after landing incident | Special Report (CBS News via YT). (Update 02-07-2025) We had two more
Reading Time: 7 minutes (02-16-2025) I drove 2 trips today. One in the early morning, and another one between 10 and 11 am when I was taking my 10 year old to her drawing class (I didn’t have much to do, plus it was too cold to walk outside today). I didn’t know or anticipate we would have snow
Reading Time: < 1 minute Around November 5 of last year (year 2024), my 10-year-old’s #Robox #AdoptMe account got hacked, and most of all her virtual belongings were gone. My thoughts in Mandarin Chinese via YT. (Nov 12, 2024) Some random thoughts on the security online including the kid’s Roblox games and adults FB activities. A few weeks ago, I
Reading Time: 2 minutes About 14 or 15 years ago when my old daughter was new born, I saved some money and put it into her 529 plan. About a year later, I wrote this blog post Some questions about 529 plan. I haven’t put in much new money into her 529 plan since the early days, and for
Reading Time: 7 minutes 谷歌翻译的中文版在这里。下面是英文原文（偶尔会有更新；中文版一般情况下不更新）。 WeChat app is a time sucker My better half (my wife) thinks I spent too much time on WeChat app aka 微信 wei’xin, and I agree after using WeChat for about 10 years. One of my new year’s resolutions is to use less iPhone, social media in general including WeChat. I mentioned a few
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