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江汉曾为客，相逢每醉还。浮云一别后，流水十年间。 欢笑情如旧，萧疏鬓已斑。何因不归去？淮上有秋山。– 韦应物《淮上喜会梁川故人》 investing 低成本是抵御下跌和波动的最大底气。以合适的价格买入好公司，就像钓鱼那样需要足够的耐心 – 宁可错过，也不要支付过高的溢价。不必害怕错过（FOMO），耐心等待，总会有机会的。 notes (i think that our cat is a guardian angel for my son. it came on Christmas eve, with snow on the roof. it brought him out from his misery and gave him a companion who is just not able to speak.) 吴鑫岩：年少有危 美国东部的阿巴拉契亚山脉形成于4.8亿年前，当时其高度曾经超过喜马拉雅山。冰河时期的周期只有10万年左右；因此，阿巴拉契亚山脉大约经历过五千个冰河周期。每到气候变暖的“间冰河”期，冰川就开始融化，水会渗入岩石的缝隙中。到了严寒期这些水就会凝结成冰，其膨胀过程会使岩石松动。轮到下一个“间冰河”期时，这些被“撬松”的岩体就会脱落。在经过了几亿年以后，曾经宏伟壮观的阿巴拉契亚山脉的平均高度只有910米，位于北卡的最高峰（米切尔峰）的高度也仅有2037米。古老山脉的特征是山体比较平缓，而且岩石上的土层比较厚，所以会有森林覆盖。与之相比，美国西部的落基山脉年青很多，大约形成于7000万年前，那时恐龙还处在全盛期。落基山（Rocky Mountain）这个名字本身就显示其年龄特征，很多山体会有陡峭的岩壁。 大约在5000万年前印度板块撞入欧亚板块，喜马拉雅山脉才开始逐渐隆起，至今还在不断升高。大约在1500万年前，喜马拉雅山脉才达到现在的高度。与之相比，中国的其他山脉则古老得多，因此也风化得更严重。例如，大约在1.7亿年前，太平洋板块与欧亚板块发生碰撞，前者插入后者下方，从而逐渐形成了世界上最深的马里亚纳海沟。在随后的漫长岁月中相继产生了中国东部一些南北走向的山脉，包括大兴安岭、太行山脉和武夷山脉。如今，这两大板块之间的挤压还在继续，从而使位于第一岛链的国家和地区频繁出现强烈地震。大约在2.5亿-2亿年前，华南板块与华北板块剧烈碰撞，从而形成了东西走向的秦岭和大别山脉。在更早期的3.8亿-2.8亿年前形成了盘古超大陆，此时天山山脉和昆仑山脉开始隆起。 book: the Score, by C. Thi Nguyen, 2026 scoring systems can change our values, without us even noticing. ...

Rivers, like men, only learn why they were born near their end. – José Saramago (1922-2010) “Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?” – W.E.B. Du Bois 乌托邦（utopia）由来已久，其要旨就是用简单的方法解决复杂的问题，其根源就是面对复杂的世界人总是希望可以有一个简单的解释。长久以来，人们知道这是做不到的，却从来没有放弃，总是不断尝试不断失败。因此反乌托邦（dystopia）也会时不时出现。 讲故事应该比乌托邦的历史更久远。一个故事就是对世界或对人生的一个简单解释，让我们多一种理解。这也是源于人渴望对复杂不确定的世事有所明了。讲故事写故事的冲动就是为了构建一个虚拟世界，从而更好地理解面前的现实世界。 世界是复杂的不确定的，而人自己其实也是复杂的变化的，没有人确知世界和自己的未来。 There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless. – Milan Kundera ...

The Summer Day Mary Oliver (1935 – 2019) Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down— who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw ...

“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.” – James Baldwin “Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.” – Richard P. Feynman, The Meaning of It All Don’t just teach your children to read … Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. – George Carlin Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. – Theodore Roszak, 1933-2011 ...

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. -- W. B. Yeats, the stolen child, 1886 Writing and reading about Fairies some may deem to be mark of a trifling turn of mind. On this subject … dulce est desipere in loco. (It is sweet to be silly in places.) – Thomas Keightley, the world guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and other little people ...

“Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of. On the contrary, passengers themselves must pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid, — what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!” – Herman Melville, Moby-Dick ...

“The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.” – Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower “When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one’s dreams if one is not to be troubled by them; there is a way of separating one’s dreams from one’s life which so often produces good results that I ask myself whether one ought not, at all costs, to try it, simply as a preventive, just as certain surgeons make out that we ought, to avoid the risk of appendicitis later on, to have all our appendices taken out when we are children.” – Marcel Proust ...

人生天地间，忽如远行客。 故不积跬步，无以至千里；不积小流，无以成江海。– 先秦荀子《劝学》 Life always offers you a second chance. It is called tomorrow. – Dylan Thomas 以前与猫有关的绰号都在我家猫身上一一应验了，比如夜猫子、萌猫、小馋猫或者小懒猫。同时，猫猫的好奇、耐心和速度也展示得淋漓尽致。每一个房间和各个犄角旮旯，只要有机会，猫猫都会去转转去闻闻。当守门员扑球，一抓一个准儿。 Earthseed: the book of living All struggles Are essentially power struggles. Who will rule, Who will lead, Who will define, refine, confine, design, Who will dominate. All struggles Are essentially power struggles, And most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together. investing 20260714: IBM stock plunged 25% Tuesday, its worst since 1968 as money rushed to chips and servers from software (Atlassian, ServiceNow, and Adobe) except cybersecurity such as CrowdStrike, PaloAltoNetworks and Fortinet. the art of boolean prefixes to name your variables prefix domain function examples is identity and state what an object is isActive, isEmpty, isDeleted has containment and features ownership or feature presence hasAccess, hasChildren can capability permission or potential action canEdit, canDelete, canRetry should intent or logic a business rule recommendation shouldRetry, shouldCacheResponse besides these prefixes, never use negation in the variable name. no hasNoAccess or isDisabled. instead use hasAccess and isEnabled. notes Dwarf Nose from The violet fairy book by Andrew Lang, 1901 ...

四五月，后院白色苹果花开始盛开，尽管后来结出的总是酸苹果，花还是很香。六月，粉红的野玫瑰成片成片地开在山坡，最好选个下雨的日子，微风吹过，玫瑰香飘沁人心脾。契科夫说如果爱经常是残酷或毁灭性的，其原因并不在于爱，而在于俩人之间的不平等。法国大革命时将自由、平等和博爱一起提出来，确实具有革命性。自由给人以空间，而城市将人们集中起来，试图挤压自由的空间。平等给人际关系以保护，这种保护可以让人有能力离开被欺凌被操控的有害关系。有了自由和平等，爱才会正常成长，如花开于阳光和雨露之中。 维克多·雨果《悲惨世界》: 他对妇女和穷人特别宽容，因为他们受到人类社会的压迫。他说：“妻子、孩子、仆人、弱者、穷人和无知者犯错误，是丈夫、父亲、主人、强者、富人和有学问的人造成的。” “对于没有知识的人，你们应尽量教给他们知识。社会不办义务教育是有罪的。是社会制造了黑暗，它应对此负责。人的心灵充满黑暗就会犯罪。真正有罪的，并非是犯罪的人，而是造成他心灵黑暗的人。” 雨果: 黑暗笼罩着整个世界，但思想却光芒四射，无比灿烂。 雨果: 人的智慧掌握着三把钥匙，一把开启数字，一把开启字母，一把开启音符。知识、思想、幻想就在其中。 like something in Anthony Burgess: he was always honest and straight to the point in his writing. “no good blaming it on other people,” “we’re prone to evil,” “our problem is to learn how to live with it. it’s not to pretend that there are solutions.” though his answer to the question of “on what occasions do you lie” is that “when I write, when I speak and when I sleep.” he wrote about many writers. when he mentioned of The Lord of The Rings by Tolkien, he noticed that there was no sex in the story and there are full of men and men-like dwarves, elves and other monsters but women. (yes, there are wives and daughters in the story but not significant roles for the fantasy.) ...

“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face.” – George Orwell, 1984 “Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” – George Orwell, 1984 ...