Ongoing Journey - July 2025

Thoughts

What’s the similarity between park, school, and cemetery - no one will be there after 8pm

Recently started going for walks before late night calls, very quiet and peaceful in all three places

大三大四难受的点是，你察觉到你长大了，但是你不知道往哪里跑

via Crystal, a similar spike of anexity I felt at Senior year of high school / college, and for each instance, the anexity only bloomed bigger without ever fading away

The more you show off an attribute, the more likly it would be altered towards the public’s liking

想到恋爱博主，跑步博主，粉丝越多表演性质就越大，自己喜欢的事情低调一些更好

Fun app idea - scrap posts from one social media and let the user guess how many likes / what the comment section would be like in another social media

Medias I get to see are much more polarized now, only the strongest opnions would get attentions with algorithms

In the end, family will be the only one that support you

via Sherry. They say finding partners is esentially choosing your famiy, I have yet to figure out what the definition of family

Small trick in life - If heading to a grocery store hungry & carrying a basket, put two bottles of water first. The weight of water often offsets my desire to get more food

If you do exactly what you have in your JD, you will always be the same employee.

Most of the conversation on sunken cost focuses on the cost part, to me the offset of expectations is more intriging.

If you adjust the expectations, it’s easier to get over the barrier of ‘sunken’ part.

PhD is about diving deep, your job is about flying up to higher platforms

via Xiaohan on academia and industry, both requires curiocity.

Photos

morning at cemetery, not many folks are there as expected, very nice and quiet pot plants left for me by my manager - wish you a speedy recovery Irean Nintendo Switch 2 release + new shop opened in SF, such an ethusastic community $43 net worth woo 🥳 Ant with his career fair shirt, was great chatting :D Cute matching couple and... CONGRATS JULIANNAAAA