Digging out your own strengths and weaknesses is a difficult thing. In Chinese-speaking societies, it’s probably hard to hear someone sincerely praise one of your skills, and I often even notice a phenomenon where people put themselves down to seem less ostentatious. I’m one of those people too, but recently I’ve been trying to change.
*The Essence of Failure* is a very well-known book in Japan. By analyzing the various defeats of the Japanese Army and Navy during World War II, the author holds up a mirror to show how an organization can gradually weaken itself through its systems, culture, and processes.
Only pay attention to Pixel Perfect when it really matters; otherwise, it often leads to a lose-lose situation.
If you’re often curious about what other people think, there’s a good chance you’ve already grasped the essence of communication. If you often think other people are idiots and that your own solution is the only correct one, there’s a good chance you still don’t know how to communicate.
Sharing some thoughts on interviewing candidates
The idea that “introducing some new technology” can solve existing problems usually just means the development hasn’t been thought through carefully enough. But it usually takes time to truly realize this—from a young person whose eyes light up at new technologies to a middle-aged man with a greasy face.
Custom keyboards are a lot like luxury watches: once you start chasing them, they stop being tools and become collectibles.
I want to talk about how music has influenced me since I was little. Only when I grew up did I realize how lucky and precious it is to be exposed to instruments at a young age—not only do you have endless time, but what you build up from childhood feels completely different from learning it again as an adult.
This comes from one of the books I loved reading as a child — a story from *The Fifth Discipline*. As a kid, of course I didn’t understand anything about organizations or teams; I just liked the story itself. Only when I grew up did I realize that the story in *The Fifth Discipline* is really centered on teamwork.
When I was young, my family was not well off, and life was not going smoothly. Without financial support, the choices available to me became quite limited. Yet in such an environment, I still ...
This is a business strategy for creators such as artists, writers, musicians, and other creators. Kelly argues that creators do not need to become global superstars or have millions of followers; they only need a group of loyal supporters to sustainably make a living and keep creating.
In web development, the traditional HEX and RGB color notations are widely used, but they are not very readable or intuitive, and their capabilities are limited in wider color spaces such as P3. HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness) provides a more intuitive way to define colors, making it easier for developers to understand and adjust them. By describing colors through the three dimensions of hue, saturation, and lightness, HSL makes color adjustment more human-friendly. In design systems in particular, HSL can better represent lightness variations in a color palette.
These are the kinds of shares I thought were pretty useful, and before they were removed from the index, people could usually find them right away by entering keywords. But overnight, Google pulled them all. It also made me clearly realize that I can’t rely only on Google SEO traffic to get people to see my site.
Nassim, the author of *The Black Swan Effect*, once proposed a concept: things that seem completely impossible can happen at unexpected moments, and most of the time we cannot predict them, yet they can have an enormous impact. The best example is COVID-19 in 2020. Under the influence of the pandemic, people’s lives and work patterns were completely changed, and many shops shut down or went bankrupt because they could not hold on; it was not until 2023 that things began to improve.
This year, I won't be setting mandatory goals. Instead, I hope to reflect on my 2024 and my aspirations for 2025 in other ways. I will continue to move forward and become a better version of myself.
In today’s fast-paced modern society, many people keep extending their working hours in pursuit of career success, overexerting their physical resources. This theme usually starts to appear around the age of thirty, mainly because that is about the age when the body begins to develop problems.
We really should have an honest conversation about imposter syndrome. In this post, I’ll share my own experiences and how I’ve worked through it.
Life is unfair
In today’s society, many people fall into a common misconception: that the time and effort they put into work should be directly proportional to their income. I was also trapped in this mindset early in my career.
However, seeing someone else live a harder, more miserable life does not seem to make things better for yourself. Many people stop at this stage of perception: when they see someone doing better than them or being more successful, they start blaming their own background and bad luck, give up early, and then blame the government and the environment for all their misfortunes. My experience over the past few years has taught me that although luck cannot be controlled, there are things we can do to increase the chances of good luck happening.