Ongoing Journey - August 2025

08-21-2025

Thoughts

~60% of the food price at restruant goes to rent -> eating home is more wroth.

Recently started seen the price paid as cost of been with people I care about, immediately happier

Post graduation I found more things only learnable through expeirence. What kind of glasses fits my face, how to meet people outside of work

Bc of it, people I found interesting are all job hoppers, contracters and interns

‘长期主义的 9 件好物’ is such a good example of selling stories / ideals instead of the product

Strange feeling when thinking about others who I havn’t contact for a while.

My weeks are slow but others life felt like a flash in my eye, even knowing we’ve been through the same amount of time.

Update - there is a word for it ‘Sonder’, checkout https://sonder.inc/

不是因为不想睡觉，我害怕睡觉

Two people I met happened to share the same sentiment, both extremely talented. I wonder how much the pressure played, felt foruntated to never felt that way

How you will take lower pay jobs depends on two reasons: 1) How high you valve your time so you can do productive things like making your own craft 2) How low you valve your time to do unproductive things like looking at sunset

One thing I am still learning - when I found a solution, use 10 seconds to take one step back and ask, ‘is there another solution’

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.

Interesting data point - since I created the people tab in 2021, I’ve lost touch to 73, and added 1 just yesterday

My most used feature with Claude is to make my sentence more concise, always in awe how my sentence still make sense when 80% shorter