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I openly document AI workflows, real projects, and engineering judgment, alongside long-term writing on growth, philosophy, and life.About this blog
October 2026 Thought Notes: Daily Life, AI and Agent Systems, Engineering and Open Source
October 2026 Thought Notes 68 public notes as of October 8 | Recorded: 2026-10-01 — 2026-10-08 Themes: Daily Notes and Everything Else 20 · AI and Agent Systems …
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Nango in Practice: Let Users Add Their Own MCP Servers in Chat
A model needs a tool to check project status. A user asks, “What’s blocking the demo project?” The model understands the …
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Personal Agent Technical Research: How OpenClaw Connects One Run to Long-Lived Work
For a Personal Agent to do things reliably on someone’s behalf, it has to connect a single model run to a …
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OCT 03AI Agent
Personal Agent Product Research: How Instinct Makes People Willing to Delegate Again
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SEP 30Growth & Life
September 2026 Thought Notes: AI and Agent Systems, Daily Notes, Engineering and Open Source
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SEP 26AI Agent
Why Opus 5.5 Makes Better Animations: What Real Projects Reveal
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SEP 26Engineering
Maintaining a UI on Your Own: A Design System with Figma, Figwright, and AI
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Nango in Practice: Let Users Add Their Own MCP Servers in Chat
A model needs a tool to check project status. A user asks, “What’s blocking the demo project?” The model understands the question, but has no way to read the …
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Personal Agent Technical Research: How OpenClaw Connects One Run to Long-Lived Work
For a Personal Agent to do things reliably on someone’s behalf, it has to connect a single model run to a …
36 min↗
Personal Agent Product Research: How Instinct Makes People Willing to Delegate Again
For a Personal Agent to earn repeated use, the user has to genuinely carry less of the mental load. If handing over an …
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Maintaining a UI on Your Own: A Design System with Figma, Figwright, and AI
I build products on my own, and I want a design system that helps me maintain their UI and frontend over time. Finishing a page is only the beginning: features …
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Argo CD in Production: GitOps Sync, ApplicationSets, Rollbacks, and Security
A green sync does not prove the delivery system is safe When Argo CD turns an application green, it proves one narrow …
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Kubernetes Resources and Learning Path Summary
Requirements 🔥 We need to further study and advance in kubernetes, reading source code is a necessary path. 👀 More …
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October 2026 Thought Notes: Daily Life, AI and Agent Systems, Engineering and Open Source
October 2026 Thought Notes 68 public notes as of October 8 | Recorded: 2026-10-01 — 2026-10-08 Themes: Daily Notes and Everything Else 20 · AI and Agent Systems …
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September 2026 Thought Notes: AI and Agent Systems, Daily Notes, Engineering and Open Source
September 2026 Thought Notes 326 notes in this month’s public archive | Recorded from 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-30 …
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August 2026 Thought Notes: Agent Harness, Product and Self-Knowledge
2026 August Thought Notes 484 notes this month | recorded from 2026-08-04 to 2026-08-31 Themes: AI and Agent Systems 212 …
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AUG 15
AI Made Me Smarter—and Slower to Meet Reality
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AUG 03
I Don't Have an Execution Problem. I Need a Battlefield That Can Say No
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AUG 03
Reading Hongyi in Quanzhou: Seeing Through, Then Taking Life Seriously
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JUL 31
The Scoreboard You Choose Will Eventually Choose You: How Incentives Reshape an Organization
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Reading Hongyi in Quanzhou: Seeing Through, Then Taking Life Seriously
At dusk, I sat on the rooftop of Youli Café and raised my coffee cup toward the twin pagodas of Kaiyuan Temple. The camera recognized the distant towers and …
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When Generation Becomes Infinite, Authentic Experiences Begin to Command Value
This piece is a thought experiment in simulated interviews. The interviewees are synthesized from field anthropology …
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Environment as the Hidden Author: Why Moving Cities Feels Like Becoming Someone Else
This piece is a thought experiment conducted through simulated interviews. The two interviewees are fictional …
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JUL 31Growth & Life
When Distance No Longer Changes You: What Keeps Life Moving After Exploration Fails
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MAY 31Growth & Life
2026 May Thought Notes: On the Edge, I Recognize Myself Through Action
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APR 30Growth & Life
April 2026 Thought Notes: Living in Laos, Borders, AI and Agents
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MAR 31Growth & Life
March 2026 Thought Notes: Money, Genocide Memory, Southeast Asia
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Books · Travelogues
Field Notebooks游记
A FIELD NOTEBOOK
Vietnam
Field Notes from the Mekong
VOL.1BEAR · 2024
2024 · 越南
Vietnam
越南 · Field Notes from the Mekong
"From Hanoi's narrow alleys to the Mekong delta — a slow-cooked record of motorbikes, coffee, monsoon rain, and the strange comfort of being a stranger."
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184Pages
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Stones, Roots & Empire
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2024 · 柬埔寨
Angkor
吴哥窟 · Stones, Roots & Empire
"On the temples beyond the postcards — banyan roots crawling over a lost capital, and what a vanished empire still says to us about scale and silence."
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156Pages
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