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
book: Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life By Ezekiel J. Emanuel MD
AI Promised to Save Time—Instead It’s Created a New Kind of Burnout
UC-Berkeley and Yale researchers found that AI tools don’t reduce work: AI is accelerating work, not reducing it. The real shift isn’t job loss—it’s work intensification and reorganization.
First came task expansion. Product managers began writing code. Researchers took on engineering work. Roles that once came with clear boundaries blurred as workers handled jobs that previously sat outside their remit. AI made that shift feel feasible.
Second came blurred boundaries. AI’s conversational interface made starting work feel effortless—no blank page paralysis, no intimidating learning curve.
Third came a surge in multitasking. Employees were expected to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously, as AI gave the impression that tasks could be handled in the background.
The reason AI is a bad tool is that generally speaking, it is completely opaque.
why convenience always wins? will AI provides a winning convenience?
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梁漱溟让我窥见了一位饱经折磨之人的内在世界 – 他始终在苦难之上寻求一条精神之路，并试图抵达某种可以疗愈历史创伤的持久真理。(对于个人而言，所谓的终极真理是一个幻觉或错觉。以短暂而有限的人生面对浩渺的世界，哪个人可以宣称自己领悟了人生的终极真理？）
book: Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States by Charisse Burden-Stelly, 2023
Anthea Bell
in February 1933, Roth wrote in a prophetic letter to his friend, the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig: You will have realized by now that we are drifting towards great catastrophes. Apart from the private—our literary and financial existence is destroyed—it all leads to a new war. I won’t bet a penny on our lives. They have succeeded in establishing a reign of barbarity. Do not fool yourself. Hell reigns.
book: The Fisherman, an American horror novel by John Langan 2016.
（中国）人口老龄化、城镇化红利见顶、地方债务压力、以及全球资本流动的转向，这些因素共同作用下，房地产作为财富蓄水池的时代正在悄然落幕。
DONALD HOFFMAN BIOGRAPHY: The Scientist Who Says Reality Is an Illusion Why your brain might be hiding the truth to help you survive. by Godwin Rolo
Book: The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes.
in fact all life, have evolved such that they impose properties on reality that are relevant to their survival as individuals and as a species.
the Glorious Cause: the American Revolution, 1763-1789, by Robert Middlekauff
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815, by Gordon S. Wood
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848, by Daniel Walker Howe
纽约时报社论：決定美國未來50年的五个问题
《独立宣言》宣告“人人生而平等”。即便起草者本身是奴隶主，理想与现实自始存在巨大矛盾。但这句话一经确立，便成为检验美国的最高标准。随后的历史，无论是废奴、妇女参政还是民权运动，都是为了兑现当初的承诺。
民主的前提是事实共识：民主制度的核心是辩论与投票，但这一切的前提是，全体公民至少对“什么是真实发生过的事”拥有底线共识。如果连客观事实都被否定，理性的公共讨论就彻底失去了立足点。
美国梦的本质是一项最现实、最物质的社会契约：只要你诚实劳动、足够努力，就能够改变自己的命运，并且让下一代生活得比上一代更好。这种向上流动的可能性，曾是维持社会稳定的最强粘合剂。
琐罗亚斯德教（Zoroastrianism）的“圣经” 《阿维斯塔》（Avesta）现存最早的手抄本残页（约9、10世纪）发现于敦煌藏经洞（由斯坦因带回英国，现藏英国图书馆Or.8212/84）。琐罗亚斯德教在中国被称为祆（念“仙”）教、火祆教、拜火教。
Midnight highway blues
You said pour me some coffee, I just poured my soul.
morgan luna - You lost me forever, You are my heaven
Sienna Rivers - You let the fire go
Old Soul Echoes - Another glass, same old pain
In 2014, Toyota, long a master of the automated plant, brought its expert craftsmen back onto the line with the explicit goal of growing craftsmanship and knowledge. The man who led this, Mitsuru Kawai, put the reason this way: “To be the master of the machine, you have to have the knowledge and the skills to teach the machine.”Craig Trudell, Yuki Hagiwara and Ma Jie, Humans Replacing Robots Herald Toyota’s Vision of Future (2014) The production of knowledge and application of intelligence lift each other; they are not substitutes.
旅行如果只是拍照、打卡、买纪念品，本质上只是换个地方娱乐。真正改变一个人的旅行，来自参与、观察和反思。很多人旅行前都很兴奋，觉得这趟旅程可能会改变人生。到了目的地，拍照、吃饭、逛景点，回来以后给朋友讲讲经历，发发照片，送送纪念品。过一段时间，那种兴奋感就消失了，旅行慢慢变成一场昂贵的梦，像看了一部电影，只是价格更贵一点。
真正
有价值的旅行，不只是“看见了什么”，而是你在这个过程中有没有参与进去，有没有观察当地人的生活，有没有问为什么，有没有发现自己原来的想法其实很狭窄。她旅行的时候，不只是看风景。她会观察当地人的农业、咖啡习惯、服装、园艺、社会等级，然后不断拿这些东西和英国对比。她发现，自己国家的很多制度和习惯，并不是天经地义的。世界上还有别的生活方式，别的秩序，别的幸福。这就是旅行最珍贵的地方。
旅行会扩大你的样本。一个人长期生活在同一个城市、同一个圈子、同一种文化里，很容易以为自己看到的世界就是整个世界。旅行让你知道，原来人类有很多种生活方式。有人追求效率，有人追求松弛；有人重视财富，有人重视关系；有人觉得幸福是成功，有人觉得幸福是安静。
旅行也能打破确认偏误。你在熟悉的环境里，身边的人常常强化你的旧观念。到了陌生地方，你会遇到完全不同的想法，不同的价值观，不同的生活节奏。它会提醒你：你现在的人生，不是唯一选项。
保持开放。旅行真正的意义，是让你有机会成为一个稍微不一样的人。你看见陌生的地方，也看见熟悉的自己。你理解别人怎么生活，也开始重新理解自己为什么这样生活。真正好的旅行，不只是让你休息几天，而是让你醒过来。It takes time to wake up. One travel changes you a little bit. One book moves you a little bit just like one meal after another. Then someday when these little changes are accumulated enough, another little trigger will enlighten you suddenly and change you completely. 顿悟有时也需要积累。
book: 高树华 程铁军合著《内蒙文革风云: 一位造反派领袖的口述史》2007 (高树华在内蒙古，似乎类似聂元梓之于全国文革，因为他是内蒙古第一张大字报的主要作者)
方在庆: 在他(爱因斯坦)看来，无论宗教、艺术还是科学，其最深层的价值都不在于服从某种既定权威，也不在于获取财富、声望或权力，而在于一种持续不断的“创造性发展”。他并不相信人生存在某个一劳永逸的终极答案。科学理论会被修正，社会制度会发生变化，个人成就终将被历史淡忘。但人仍然可以在创造之中不断超越自身，不断扩展精神世界的边界。正是在这个意义上，科学、艺术与宗教才获得了共同的根基。因此，文章最后引用歌德的话，绝非偶然：“谁拥有科学与艺术，谁便拥有宗教；谁若不具备这二者，才需要宗教。”这句话浓缩了爱因斯坦终生坚持的信念：科学不仅是一种知识，艺术不仅是一种趣味，宗教也不仅是一套教义。它们在最深处，都指向同一种东西 – 人超越狭隘自我、不断创造与成长的能力。《生活的理想类型》记录了他的选择。那不是权力，不是名望，也不是成功。而是创造本身。
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 14: The Berlin Years: Writings & Correspondence, April 1923 – May 1925 - Documentary Edition, Albert Einstein, 2015 Princeton Univ. Press
- world cup 2026
semifinals: Argentia - Lionel messi, Spain - Lamine Yamal, France - Kylian Mbappe, England -Harry Kane
Major Motoko Kusanagi 草薙素子 voiced by Atsuko Tanaka 田中敦子
- Lindsey Graham, US senator from South Carolina, died on July 11, 2026
Trump 02/17/2016: I think Lindsey Graham is a disgrace, and I think you have one of the worst representatives of any representative in the United States, and I don’t think he should run,” Trump said about the South Carolina senator at a campaign event in front of the lawmaker’s home-state crowd. “I don’t think he could run for dog catcher in this state and win again. I really don’t. Other than that, I think he’s wonderful.
Atlantic: the last of three amigos: He was the last surviving member of the “three amigos,” after the deaths of McCain and Joe Lieberman. True believers in the use of American power for good, they worked and traveled the world together.
Atlantic: The Last of the Three Amigos by Richard Fontaine: “When I was first elected to the House,” he recalled, “I looked for the they. They who run things. They who know how things really work. They who know what they are doing. But I couldn’t find the they.” After that, he went on, “I went to the Senate. But there was still no they. And then I started to get invited to the White House, and to closed-door briefings, and to meetings with top officials. No they.” “What I finally realized,” he concluded, “is that there is no they. There is only we, and we usually don’t know what the fuck we’re doing.”