"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent"
Which may be the feeling of human conception becoming real. The word becoming flesh.
Follow the master…
Will we have a world left?
“Have courage to use let agents use their understanding!”–that is the motto of enlightenment.
Ended up in Systems instead.
To be at home is both wonderful and terribly unsettling for how calm one feels.
At least, when we are out of home, there is home to hope for. When we are at home, we lose all hope.
angels. mirrors. myself
- Exercise before I eat
- Follow some religious fasting calendar (currently the Buddhist 六斋日）
- Light/no lunch. Larger dinner.
- No snacks, NO SNACKS!
- Red light for screens 2 hours after sunset.
- Warm lights until sleep.
- Get dressed and go out for a short walk when wake up.
I often think about personalization as collecting all this data and magically being given the perfect thing. True personalization is to have the space to change, customize, adapt, and grow the generative process behind things.
If we really want to work, why not work?
If we really want to socialize, why not socialize?
Bad art adds. Great Art subtracts to domesticate the inspiration that is already there.
We make ourselves feel more free by having technology make important decisions for us, so that “we don’t have to think about it anymore.”
The good thing about knowing lots of history is to be able to find parallels in everything we do. The bad thing about knowing lots of mental models is to be able to find parallels in everything we do.
We all say we want elegance, beauty, and style in our lives. But we rarely do anything substantial towards that aim.
I often find the depiction of people in supposedly realistic old paintings (e.g. the Flemish Masters) quite unrealistic. I’m starting the wonder whether this is because people really looked liked that. Just that I don’t have the imagination and exposure to find it real.
The patterns of places live in me.
Artistic integrity lies in every decision. From the largest to the smallest. “To see a world in a grain of sand”. It’s every character and every line of code.
Writing, thinking, language, patterns, words, has been my obsession. They are my tools. Truth, Love, and Beauty, they are my eternity.
Before I knew how to code, I thought “code is creative” is bullshit.
Don’t eat unless I’ve exercised beforehand.
Don’t pee unless I really feel like I have to.
Don’t stay in doors when I can stay out doors.
From 21 years of schooling, I’ve learned how to exploit stupid rules in stupid games. Fortunately, I’ve learned also that there are certain games that are not worth playing, especially the ones where everyone is playing but no one is having fun.
To be happy, don’t do anything that makes me unhappy. Then do things that makes me happy.
No matter how powerful Claude, GPT, and Gemini are, there are certain pieces of important information that one can only find on XiaoHongShu.
The world is strange.
Fortunately, we learn the most when we are not being educated.
Productivity is about removing complexity to get closer to my work. Everything else are distractions appeasing to my primate self.