September 2026 Thought Notes: Architecture, Temples and First Principles

2026 September Thought Notes 220 notes this month | recorded from 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-10 Themes: AI and Agent Systems 105 · Daily Notes and Everything Else 44 · Product, Engineering and Open Source 34 · Self-Knowledge and Psychology 16 · Travel, Places and Cities 8 · Reading, Ideas and History 7 · Business, Investing and Career 3 · Content, Craft and Recording 2 · Body, Health and Daily Life 1 Everything from the month is kept here, filed by theme, each entry carrying its original timestamp. ...

September 19, 2026 · 115 min · 24327 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

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 · Daily Notes and Everything Else 118 · Product, Engineering and Open Source 96 · Self-Knowledge and Psychology 36 · Business, Investing and Career 9 · Content, Craft and Recording 6 · Reading, Ideas and History 4 · Travel, Places and Cities 3 Everything from the month is kept here, filed by theme, each entry carrying its original timestamp. ...

August 31, 2026 · 223 min · 47494 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

2026 June Thought Notes: The Pushing-Away Comes Before the Reason for Pushing Away

Quick Navigation Start with the long read: 12 sections in the body above. 34 archived notes this month, filed under 7 themes: Self-Knowledge and Psychology · 13 Daily Notes and Everything Else · 5 Business, Investing and Career · 5 AI and Agent Systems · 4 Product, Engineering and Open Source · 3 Content, Craft and Recording · 2 Reading, Ideas and History · 2 Prologue: A slack surface, and high density underneath In June I came back from Laos to Shenzhen. ...

June 30, 2026 · 54 min · 11497 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

2026 May Thought Notes: On the Edge, I Recognize Myself Through Action

Quick Navigation Start with the long read: 9 sections in the body above. 1 archived notes this month, filed under 1 themes: Daily Notes and Everything Else · 1 Prologue: A May Without flomo For the entire month of May, I did not write a single flomo note. I barely posted to my feed either. This was not laziness. It was a conscious decision. I had already decided on April 30 that I would stop. The reason is simple: I no longer felt I needed it. Or more accurately — could it have a better form? I want to use my own product. It is not perfect yet, but I want to fully think through and ship the thing I have in my head. The remaining steps are few. It is close. ...

May 31, 2026 · 25 min · 5157 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me
April 2026 Thought Notes

April 2026 Thought Notes: Living in Laos, Borders, AI and Agents

2026 April Thought Notes 222 notes this month | recorded from 2026-04-02 to 2026-04-30 Themes: AI and Agent Systems 87 · Travel, Places and Cities 56 · Daily Notes and Everything Else 34 · Self-Knowledge and Psychology 29 · Reading, Ideas and History 5 · Product, Engineering and Open Source 4 · Body, Health and Daily Life 3 · Business, Investing and Career 2 · Content, Craft and Recording 2 Everything from the month is kept here, filed by theme, each entry carrying its original timestamp. ...

April 30, 2026 · 167 min · 35417 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me
March 2026 Thought Notes

March 2026 Thought Notes: Money, Genocide Memory, Southeast Asia

2026 March Thought Notes 464 notes this month | recorded from 2026-03-01 to 2026-03-31 Themes: AI and Agent Systems 135 · Travel, Places and Cities 109 · Reading, Ideas and History 57 · Daily Notes and Everything Else 55 · Self-Knowledge and Psychology 48 · Product, Engineering and Open Source 30 · Content, Craft and Recording 11 · Business, Investing and Career 11 · Body, Health and Daily Life 8 Everything from the month is kept here, filed by theme, each entry carrying its original timestamp. ...

March 31, 2026 · 392 min · 83333 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me
Wandering & Growing: 2025-2026 Annual Review

Wandering & Growing: 2025-2026 Annual Review

On the edge of a cliff, all logic fails. Only intuition can connect with the world. I wrote this sentence one night in Lhasa. Finding it now, I feel it can serve as the entry point to this review. Over these past fourteen months, I’ve been living on the edge of cliffs — almost literally. Encountering ice slopes on ACT mountain trails with drops beside me; every step at the altitude of Genie Sacred Mountain requiring all my strength; riding a motorcycle around the outer circle of Angkor Wat for three days with a splitting headache, yet not stopping. But I also know that those “cliffs” were more often internal. They were the cosmic-level monologues in one’s own mind after getting drunk late at night in a foreign country, with the world fading into the background. They were that night in Shenzhen, standing under DJI’s light beams, feeling like I hadn’t even reached the starting line. They were a certain morning at the end of 2025, suddenly realizing that exploration itself no longer provided enough traction, without knowing where the next fulcrum would be. ...

March 25, 2026 · 25 min · 5267 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me
February 2026 Thought Notes

February 2026 Thought Notes

2026 February Thought Notes 363 notes this month | recorded from 2026-02-04 to 2026-02-28 Themes: Reading, Ideas and History 85 · Daily Notes and Everything Else 63 · AI and Agent Systems 63 · Self-Knowledge and Psychology 61 · Travel, Places and Cities 41 · Business, Investing and Career 19 · Content, Craft and Recording 14 · Product, Engineering and Open Source 13 · Body, Health and Daily Life 4 Everything from the month is kept here, filed by theme, each entry carrying its original timestamp. ...

February 28, 2026 · 304 min · 64682 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

January 2026 Thought Notes

2026 January Thought Notes 386 notes this month | recorded from 2026-01-01 to 2026-01-31 Themes: AI and Agent Systems 89 · Reading, Ideas and History 79 · Daily Notes and Everything Else 70 · Business, Investing and Career 46 · Self-Knowledge and Psychology 44 · Product, Engineering and Open Source 23 · Travel, Places and Cities 14 · Body, Health and Daily Life 12 · Content, Craft and Recording 9 Everything from the month is kept here, filed by theme, each entry carrying its original timestamp. ...

January 31, 2026 · 225 min · 47838 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

December 2025 Thought Notes

2025 December Thought Notes 374 notes this month | recorded from 2025-12-02 to 2025-12-30 Themes: Reading, Ideas and History 93 · Travel, Places and Cities 55 · Product, Engineering and Open Source 51 · AI and Agent Systems 48 · Daily Notes and Everything Else 47 · Self-Knowledge and Psychology 31 · Business, Investing and Career 25 · Body, Health and Daily Life 17 · Content, Craft and Recording 7 Everything from the month is kept here, filed by theme, each entry carrying its original timestamp. ...

December 31, 2025 · 272 min · 57792 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

November 2025 Thought Notes: Ideas and History, Daily Life, Cities

2025 November Thought Notes 309 notes this month | recorded from 2025-11-03 to 2025-11-26 Themes: Reading, Ideas and History 63 · Daily Notes and Everything Else 59 · Travel, Places and Cities 48 · Self-Knowledge and Psychology 41 · Product, Engineering and Open Source 32 · AI and Agent Systems 32 · Content, Craft and Recording 12 · Business, Investing and Career 12 · Body, Health and Daily Life 10 ...

November 30, 2025 · 225 min · 47773 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

October 2025 Thought Notes: Ideas and History, Daily Life, Self-Knowledge

2025 October Thought Notes 441 notes this month | recorded from 2025-10-02 to 2025-10-31 Themes: Reading, Ideas and History 94 · Daily Notes and Everything Else 83 · Self-Knowledge and Psychology 82 · AI and Agent Systems 60 · Content, Craft and Recording 46 · Product, Engineering and Open Source 38 · Travel, Places and Cities 18 · Business, Investing and Career 10 · Body, Health and Daily Life 10 ...

October 31, 2025 · 256 min · 54479 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

September 2025 Thought Notes: Self-Knowledge, Ideas and History, Cities

2025 September Thought Notes 287 notes this month | recorded from 2025-09-01 to 2025-09-17 Themes: Self-Knowledge and Psychology 83 · Reading, Ideas and History 66 · Travel, Places and Cities 30 · Business, Investing and Career 27 · AI and Agent Systems 21 · Daily Notes and Everything Else 21 · Product, Engineering and Open Source 17 · Content, Craft and Recording 14 · Body, Health and Daily Life 8 Everything from the month is kept here, filed by theme, each entry carrying its original timestamp. ...

September 30, 2025 · 189 min · 40092 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

August 2025 Thought Notes: Self-Knowledge, Daily Life, AI and Agent Systems

2025 August Thought Notes 332 notes this month | recorded from 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-30 Themes: Self-Knowledge and Psychology 94 · Daily Notes and Everything Else 74 · AI and Agent Systems 47 · Reading, Ideas and History 43 · Travel, Places and Cities 25 · Business, Investing and Career 17 · Product, Engineering and Open Source 16 · Content, Craft and Recording 9 · Body, Health and Daily Life 7 Everything from the month is kept here, filed by theme, each entry carrying its original timestamp. ...

August 31, 2025 · 189 min · 40150 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

July 2025 Thought Notes: Self-Knowledge, Daily Life, Engineering

2025 July Thought Notes 226 notes this month | recorded from 2025-07-02 to 2025-07-30 Themes: Self-Knowledge and Psychology 51 · Daily Notes and Everything Else 47 · Product, Engineering and Open Source 30 · Travel, Places and Cities 30 · AI and Agent Systems 23 · Reading, Ideas and History 18 · Business, Investing and Career 15 · Content, Craft and Recording 7 · Body, Health and Daily Life 5 Everything from the month is kept here, filed by theme, each entry carrying its original timestamp. ...

July 31, 2025 · 127 min · 27011 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

June 2025 Thought Notes: Self-Knowledge, Daily Life, Engineering

2025 June Thought Notes 181 notes this month | recorded from 2025-06-02 to 2025-06-15 Themes: Self-Knowledge and Psychology 55 · Daily Notes and Everything Else 34 · Product, Engineering and Open Source 27 · AI and Agent Systems 19 · Reading, Ideas and History 17 · Content, Craft and Recording 15 · Travel, Places and Cities 6 · Body, Health and Daily Life 6 · Business, Investing and Career 2 Everything from the month is kept here, filed by theme, each entry carrying its original timestamp. ...

June 30, 2025 · 148 min · 31362 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

May 2025 Thought Notes: Self-Knowledge, Engineering, AI and Agent Systems

2025 May Thought Notes 84 notes this month | recorded from 2025-05-03 to 2025-05-25 Themes: Self-Knowledge and Psychology 29 · Product, Engineering and Open Source 19 · AI and Agent Systems 10 · Reading, Ideas and History 9 · Travel, Places and Cities 6 · Daily Notes and Everything Else 5 · Business, Investing and Career 5 · Body, Health and Daily Life 1 Everything from the month is kept here, filed by theme, each entry carrying its original timestamp. ...

May 31, 2025 · 70 min · 14745 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

April 2025 Thought Notes: Self-Knowledge, AI and Agent Systems, Engineering

2025 April Thought Notes 113 notes this month | recorded from 2025-04-05 to 2025-04-17 Themes: Self-Knowledge and Psychology 30 · AI and Agent Systems 30 · Product, Engineering and Open Source 26 · Daily Notes and Everything Else 12 · Reading, Ideas and History 5 · Travel, Places and Cities 4 · Business, Investing and Career 4 · Body, Health and Daily Life 2 Everything from the month is kept here, filed by theme, each entry carrying its original timestamp. ...

April 30, 2025 · 92 min · 19433 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

March 2025 Thought Notes: AI and Agent Systems, Self-Knowledge, Engineering

2025 March Thought Notes 52 notes this month | recorded from 2025-03-01 to 2025-03-22 Themes: AI and Agent Systems 21 · Self-Knowledge and Psychology 15 · Product, Engineering and Open Source 8 · Daily Notes and Everything Else 4 · Business, Investing and Career 2 · Travel, Places and Cities 1 · Reading, Ideas and History 1 Everything from the month is kept here, filed by theme, each entry carrying its original timestamp. ...

March 31, 2025 · 51 min · 10783 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

February 2025 Thought Notes: AI and Agent Systems, Self-Knowledge, Engineering

2025 February Thought Notes 40 notes this month | recorded from 2025-02-18 to 2025-02-27 Themes: AI and Agent Systems 11 · Self-Knowledge and Psychology 9 · Product, Engineering and Open Source 8 · Daily Notes and Everything Else 4 · Business, Investing and Career 3 · Reading, Ideas and History 2 · Travel, Places and Cities 2 · Body, Health and Daily Life 1 Everything from the month is kept here, filed by theme, each entry carrying its original timestamp. ...

February 28, 2025 · 50 min · 10471 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me
2024 Annual Review

2024 Annual Review

Introduction and self-positioning Annual Preface and Background 📅 Hi! 2025 ~ TIP: This article has a high density of information and is highly subjective. I have tried to include fewer opinions and more descriptions of my experiences, including my own experiences traveling, reflections on things I have experienced, and some experiences in making products. Experience is valuable, and I hope to leave more room for you to be touched and think. Just choose the content that interests you from the TOP. ...

February 12, 2025 · 157 min · 33278 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me
How AI agents rebuilt a 120-post Hugo blog with a human editor

How AI Agents Rebuilt My 120-Post Blog From Scratch

What actually happened here How large a team does it take to rebuild a four-year-old blog with 120+ posts — content architecture, operations, all of it? My answer, delivered over the first half of this year: one person and a crew of agents with clearly divided jobs. “Crew” is a working metaphor, not a fixed headcount of digital employees. As of July 2026, the repository contains seven Claude skills and four workflows whose names begin with seo-; Claude Code, Codex, the Claude jobs inside GitHub Actions, and temporary review sessions are started only when a task calls for them. The human owns judgment, boundaries, and the final signature. Agents own scoped work that can be tested. The result is the site you’re reading — cubxxw.com . It isn’t merely a redesign. It turned “a blog” from a static site into a system that generates a daily report, prepares fix proposals, and exposes its own search interface. ...

July 17, 2026 · 19 min · 4026 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me
GEO blog rebuild case study cover showing a real-data dashboard and growth curve

GEO Blog Rebuild Case Study: Running the Five-Layer Model on Real Data

The answer first: a clean technical audit was not the same as demand In July 2026, I put the previous four chapters’ five-layer GEO model against my own blog. The useful result was not “technical SEO is perfect.” It was narrower: The tested homepage passed every Lighthouse SEO audit, while a three-month Search Console snapshot showed 878K impressions and only 852 clicks. Once I segmented the data, most clicks came from a small technical core, while many impressions came from unrelated long-tail queries. ...

July 11, 2026 · 10 min · 2077 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

Open Source Resume Builders & Career Tips

In the vast sea of job hunting, a well-prepared resume acts like a well-designed sailboat, helping you navigate through the fierce waves of competition. With the flourishing development of the open-source community, many excellent resume building tools have emerged, designed to help job seekers create professional and personalized resumes at minimal cost. This article will introduce you to several top-tier open-source resume builders and provide practical tips for crafting and optimizing your resume. ...

April 19, 2024 · 3 min · 544 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

Troubleshooting Guide for OpenIM

Translation and Enhancement of the Article on Troubleshooting Techniques Using OpenIM If you’re seeking specific answers to issues related to OpenIM, I regret to inform you that this article isn’t a collection of problems and solutions. Instead, it focuses on the troubleshooting methods and debugging techniques gleaned from development and operational experiences using OpenIM as a case study. If you’re interested in learning how to diagnose faults and pinpoint issues, please continue reading. ...

April 16, 2024 · 28 min · 5923 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

Flow State: Deep Focus and Happiness Guide

Flow State As I mentioned in my previous post on GTD and the Four Quadrant Rule Practice , I have been striving to enhance my focus and efficiency. Reflecting on the moments when I initially experienced the flow state, whether engrossed in a game or a novel, time seemed to stand still. The flow state is not just about the swift passage of time; it has profound effects on our lives, health, productivity, and even our sense of happiness. ...

February 13, 2024 · 3 min · 558 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

GTD and the Quadrant Method Practice

GTD and the Quadrant Method Practice During the New Year holidays, I spent a lot of time reflecting. Alongside the growth and many merits over the past year, I also identified several shortcomings: Lack of proactive thought on prioritizing tasks A tendency to actively solve issues without much focus Difficulty in concentrating on completing specific TODOs Whenever I review my tasks, despite their number, I often feel a lack of clear judgment and thorough consideration. Sometimes, I might engage in a task because it seems crucial at the moment or out of a knee-jerk reaction, without truly assessing its priority or importance. This habit not only impacts my work efficiency but also prevents me from deep thinking and planning opportunities, which I aim to improve in the coming year. ...

February 12, 2024 · 13 min · 2589 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

Go Directives & Automation Tools Deep Dive

These go: instructions in the Go source code && go automation tools Developers have a strong tendency to automate repetitive tasks, and this also applies to writing code. Boilerplate code may include operations such as setting up a basic file structure, initializing variables, defining functions, or importing libraries or modules. In some cases, packages provide boilerplate code as a starting point for developers to build from, typically generated after the code behavior has been configured. Although boilerplate code may be necessary and valuable to application functionality, it can also be wasteful and redundant. For this reason, there are many tools that minimize boilerplate code. go generate is a command line tool for the Go programming language that allows automatic code generation. You can use go generate to generate easily modifiable code specific to your project, making the tool powerful at reducing boilerplate. go generate This command is usually used to automatically generate code before compilation. It can be used to create repetitive or patterned code, thereby saving time and reducing errors. Think about it, in what situations would this be particularly useful? 🤔 ...

January 25, 2024 · 22 min · 4561 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me
Vector database learning

Vector Database Learning

Vector database learning I learned rust today and found that rust is a very suitable language for writing databases. I found a treasure project tikv. Its github project address is https://github.com/tikv/tikv . It is a very active project, but today I The topic is vector database in the field of AI. Without further ado, let’s get started right away. prerequisites 0.1 Introduction to basic knowledge: Understand the basic definition of vector database and its difference from traditional database. 0.2 Data Structure Basics: Learn vectors and other basic data structures, and how to represent and manipulate these structures in databases. 0.3 Introduction to Linear Algebra: Introduction to vector operations, including vector addition, subtraction and dot multiplication. 0.4 Similarity measures: Learn how to calculate similarity between vectors, such as cosine similarity. 0.5 Basics of Database Index: Introduces the basic concepts of database index, especially its application in vector databases. 0.6 Preliminary Search Algorithms: Learn basic search algorithms and understand how to perform effective searches in large data sets. 0.7 Application case studies: Study the application of vector databases in different fields (such as recommendation systems, image recognition). ...

January 20, 2024 · 41 min · 8650 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

OpenIM: Version Control & Testing Workflow

The success of an open-source project largely depends on its quality management and collaborative processes. In the OpenIM open-source community, the standardization of project management and testing processes is crucial to ensure the quality and stability of the codebase. This document provides a brief overview of our testing strategy, branch management, quality control policies, and how they are applied to the main branch, PR testing branches, and stable release branches to meet the needs of developers, testers, and community managers. Additionally, we will introduce the standards, testing schemes, and project management strategies of the OpenIM open-source community, aiming to provide clear guidance to ensure project stability and sustainability. ...

January 15, 2024 · 5 min · 1030 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me