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March 2026 Thought Notes 468 entries this month | Recorded: March 1 — March 31, 2026 Monthly Theme: Angkor Wat · AI Agent · Self-Narrative Core Topics: Gewu/AI (~53), Gewu/Cambodia (~38), Gewu/Angkor Wat (~23), Gewu/Hinduism (~15), Guanwo (~14), Gewu/Vietnam (~11) Daily Notes Archive March 1, 2026 Sunday (29 entries) Northeast China’s Direct Culture: How Labor Independence Shapes Non-Draining Relationship Patterns 2026-03-01 10:35:04 Women’s status in Northeast China is slightly dominant. ...

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. ...

2025年10月思考笔记 嘉兴的潜力：顶级都市圈间的“白纸” 2025 年 10 月01 日 - 00:18:51 宁波的世界级港口真的是难以撼动的生产力 并且以强大的制造业兜底 相比较而言，嘉兴位置绝佳，两个顶级都市圈中间 长三角核心区不可或缺的超级节点 相对来说也具有强大的不确定性 未来的潜力很大 嘉兴是一个可以填满故事的白纸 #格物/城市发展 高层建筑的潜在危机：早衰与高昂的维修成本 2025 年 10 月01 日 - 00:25:16 高层楼也是最早面临危机的 高层楼的维修成本过于高了 现在都还没显露出来，但是却不断存在危机的 许多中国的高层建筑正经过早老化。在其他国家通常需要几十年才会出现的问题，据报道在中国仅建成不到10到15年的建筑中就已经出现。这些问题包括： 外墙恶化： 外墙瓷砖和面板的开裂、剥落和坠落变得越来越普遍，对楼下的行人构成了安全隐患。 渗水漏水： 来自屋顶、窗户和内部管道的持续渗漏导致水渍损坏和霉菌滋生，既损害了结构完整性，也破坏了居住环境。 系统故障： 电梯作为任何高楼中的关键动脉，正经历着更频繁的故障。管道和电气系统也显示出紧张的迹象，导致服务中断和火灾风险增加。 现在的无人机、科技、远程办公已经在修改游戏规则，其实哪怕是偏远的郊区独栋别墅通勤劣势将被大大削弱，其空间和环境优势会更加凸显 #格物/城市观察 K字签证：吸引全球STEM人才的新策略 2025 年 10 月01 日 - 09:35:52 K 字签证 针对全球的 STEM（科学、技术、工程、数学）领域人才的新型签证 吸引外国高科技人才来华工作、创业或交流 该签证不要求国内雇主担保，只需满足年龄、教育背景或工作经验等基本门槛，即可获批多入境、停留期长达5年，并可直接通往永久居留 这个签证像是应对美国提高H-1B签证费用（高达10万美元）的战略回应，旨在提升科技自给自足和全球人才竞争优势，但是同时引发国内就业担忧和对实际吸引力的质疑 同样的可以吸引更多的人才进入中国，并且加快内部的消费 但是实际上也加剧了本地的就业压力 #格物/时事 Grok的产品思考：追问推荐的设计很一般 2025 年 10 月01 日 - 09:45:58 grok 总感觉也有一些追问的推荐，但是按钮选项总归感觉很一般设计的 后面也会推荐一些选项，比如说一些书籍推荐，或者是案例的推荐 ...

2025年9月思考笔记 flomo 标签新设计：心智分类法 2025 年 09 月01 日 - 08:25:46 设计的核心，不是按照学科（哲学、AI）分类，而是按照记录时的心智状态去分类，关注的是，当时的自己是观察内在、探究外物，还是捕捉灵感。 三大支柱： 观我：向内探索，关于人的思考，包括个人成长相关的，精神世界的内省与反思。 格物：向外探究，关于物与事的思考，包括 AI 、软件工程、产品设计、商业模式等客观世界的分析。 知世：旅居中的见闻，对世界的理解，旅居的思考，文化的思考。 一闪：闪过的灵感，想法和金句。 后面可以适当的再加一个标签，比如说项目的名称。 #格物/flomo 科技狂奔与人性缓行：我们跟得上 AI 吗？ 2025 年 09 月01 日 - 08:36:02 不免有些恐慌：AI 发展的这么快，我们这代人能跟上它的速度吗？ 从蒸汽机、电力、互联网到如今的人工智能，技术不断扩展人类的能力，拓展了我们的感官和行动边界。但人性的发展却像一条缓慢的河流，我们的情感模式、欲望、恐惧、偏见，和几千年前并无太大不同。 AI 能写诗、能生成视频，可人类真的有足够的智慧去驾驭这样的科技吗？人性准备好了吗？又该何时才能准备好？ #观我/AI 河内印象：强烈的民族正统感与爱国氛围 2025 年 09 月01 日 - 10:08:14 河内的国庆氛围比想象中更浓厚。 这里的人说话、做事，似乎总带着一些“民族正统感”，爱国表现也更官方、更热烈。越南虽小，但能在强国夹缝中生存并保持独立，这种“民族自豪感”或许天然地强化了人们的“爱国”身份认同。 #知世/越南 盲从权威的代价 2025 年 09 月01 日 - 12:18:40 为什么长期盲从权威的人，更容易滑向“只能相信”的境地，最终成为权威的奴隶？ 我们依赖权威是为了降低认知负担，但这需要一个前提：对事情本身有基本的认知。比如，我们相信飞行员的专业性，但也应了解飞机可能出现意外的客观现实。 当信息真假难辨时，其中可能夹杂着大量的错误和偏见。这包括 AI 的回复，也可能掺杂着各种潜在的错误信息。 一个有效的策略是：根据信息来源的权威度进行加权判断，同时对来自不同信源的信息进行交叉验证，寻找共识点和矛盾之处。 #格物/思维模型 概念、理论与理念：思想的三层阶梯 2025 年 09 月01 日 - 14:17:43 ...

March 2025 Thought Notes Learning & Growth Projects & Work Challenges & Solutions Insights & Reflections Goals & Planning Books, Articles & Resources Quotes & Inspiration Next Month’s Focus

During a 48-hour engineering task, I wrote down one sentence: “At this point, I’ve spent half the time designing, researching, understanding the requirements, judging the boundaries, and developing my taste and intuition. I haven’t started writing code.” The task began as a limited feature. After I kept discussing it with AI, it quickly grew a product model, system boundaries, and a complete design. Every step had a rationale. Every piece connected to the next. I could feel myself thinking faster and farther, holding more layers in mind at once. ...

At the beginning of 2026, my GitHub contribution graph stayed nearly blank for several weeks. A few months later, the same graph showed hundreds of contributions in a single week. In July, this blog published 55 articles in Chinese , while GitHub’s contribution calendar recorded 733 contributions. Those numbers prove neither quality nor user value, much less a business result. GitHub also makes clear that contributions may include qualifying commits, pull requests, issues, reviews, and other activity; the number cannot simply be relabeled as a commit count. GitHub’s profile contributions reference ...

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 ignored the hand in front of it. Cup and fingers dissolved into a red blur; across the old city, the pagodas held their edges. ...

This is a thought experiment-style simulated interview. The respondents are composed of organizational psychology and organizational economics perspectives, and do not represent any real individuals’ original statements. In my June 2026 monthly review, I wrote: Incentive structures colonize personality. At that time, I studied several founders and observed myself. An organization initially selects a particular narrative, user model, and revenue framework primarily to launch a business. Years later, that structure reverses to filter what members can see, what they are willing to acknowledge, and which behaviors persist. ...

I had only asked my second brain to organize the thoughts of a friend. It placed scattered notes in order by time, theme, and cause, then tried to explain how she thought about work, money, and freedom. A few thousand words later, I looked at the resulting portrait and realized that the person it had revealed most clearly was not her. It had shown me why I never stop building systems. ...

This piece is a thought experiment in simulated interviews. The respondents are synthesized from existential philosophy and behavior design perspectives—this is not verbatim dialogue from any real person. One June day, perhaps like this. I woke around noon. My phone lay on the pillow. First I checked the time, then the messages. Nothing was urgent, so I opened a short video. The algorithm did not require me to decide what came next. By the time I looked up, more than forty minutes had passed. ...

This piece is a thought experiment in simulated interviews. The interviewees are synthesized from field anthropology and documentary practice perspectives and do not represent any real person’s actual words. I work with AI, yet I am consistently moved by life outside of AI. The blackness of caves in Laos, the sting of a wound after a motorcycle fall, the wind along the Mekong, a stranger who read a story in my eyes, and the stretched-out time of walking instead of riding on the Four Thousand Islands—none of these experiences has model-like efficiency or can be reproduced with one click. ...

This piece is a thought experiment in the form of a simulated interview. Its two fictional voices combine perspectives from behavioral decision research and high-risk outdoor practice; they do not represent the words of any real person. Nothing here constitutes investment, medical, or outdoor safety advice. In May 2026, I injured my leg in Vang Vieng and still walked into the cave. Over the past two years, I’ve also been able to leave traditional systems, live long-term abroad, and place both income and identity within greater uncertainty. ...

This piece presents a thought experiment in simulated dialogue. The respondents are synthesized from phenomenological and psychotherapeutic perspectives and do not represent any real individuals’ words. It is not intended as psychological diagnosis or therapeutic advice. I excel at stepping back. Entering a city, I quickly see how its industries, spaces, and history shape life. Entering a relationship, I analyze attachment patterns, projections, scarcity, and familiarity. Developing a product, I first deconstruct systems, identify boundaries, and map information flow. ...

This piece is a thought experiment conducted through simulated interviews. The interviewees are composed of social psychology, editorial practice, and creator research perspectives and do not represent any real person’s original words. In November 2025, I recorded the phrase: “The creator’s loss: the scarcity of positive feedback.” In April 2026, I wrote: “Understanding generates positive feedback.” Together, these two sentences shift the question. Do creators truly seek only praise? When one hundred people like a piece but none articulate the contradictions it addresses, that void persists. Conversely, a single reader who precisely identifies how a detail altered their judgment—without public dissemination—might reignite the creator’s resolve to continue. ...

This piece is a thought experiment conducted through simulated interviews from the perspectives of cognitive neuroscience and AI memory engineering—representing no actual experts. In March 2026, I wrote in a note: In the AI era, perhaps forgetting is more important than remembering. The image that came to mind was simple: a water layer with hot, warm, and cold strata. Recently used knowledge resides in the hot layer, while content untouched for a while gradually sinks downward—only being retrieved under exceptional circumstances. If a knowledge system absorbs information without releasing it, it will eventually degenerate from wisdom into a mere repository. ...

This piece is a thought experiment-style simulated interview. The respondents are composed of cognitive science, archival studies, and product design perspectives and do not represent any actual expert’s original words. In May 2026, I stopped using flomo. That month had no daily reminders, no faint sense of debt from “today’s notes still pending,” and no rapid conversion of thoughts into cards. Surprisingly, life didn’t thin out. Instead, Laotian cities, caves, injuries, strangers, and bars coalesced in late May into a more complete self-reading than fragmented pieces. ...

This piece is a thought experiment conducted through simulated interviews. The two interviewees are fictional characters synthesized from environmental psychology, behavioral science, and urban studies—representing no real individuals or viewpoints. In May, I explored caves, rode motorcycles, and met strangers in Vang Vieng. By June, back in Shenzhen, I often did not come alive until after dark, relied on short videos to lull myself to sleep at two or three in the morning, and lacked the energy even to step outside during the day. ...

This is a thought experiment-style simulated interview. The respondents are fictional characters composed of developmental psychology, field anthropology, and the author’s personal experience—no real experts are quoted. In December 2025, I wrote in my notes: Exploration no longer provides sufficient momentum. At first, moving to a new city wasn’t just a change of scenery. New languages, social structures, and rhythms would disrupt your existing self. Once your position loosened, your identity followed; once your identity loosened, possibilities multiplied. For a long time, “traveling” and “becoming someone new” were nearly synonymous. ...

This is the final essay in Reckoning with Reality. The first six considered profit, competence, action, feedback, and technology. The last returns to a question no model or market can decide for us: what kind of life am I willing to pay for? When we discuss a choice, we habitually list the returns. How large is the market? How high is the income ceiling? Will growth come faster? Can the path eventually produce a moat? The more complete the spreadsheet, the more rational the choice appears. ...

This is the sixth essay in Reckoning with Reality. The previous essay separated fast feedback from slow results. This one turns to a question that technological progress makes easy to neglect: when an old bottleneck disappears, where does the new one appear? Whenever a new tool arrives, people first imagine what it will eliminate. AI makes writing faster, code cheaper, translation nearly instantaneous, and video production possible without a full team. Work that once took days can now be completed in minutes. ...

This is the fifth essay in Reckoning with Reality. The previous essay asked what kind of action can produce evidence. This one examines the speed at which evidence arrives—and how speed quietly changes our goals. A friend told me that content and retail have one enormous advantage: fast feedback. Change the opening today and the view count responds within hours. Adjust the price or the page and clicks or sales may change at once. Compared with spending months building a product in private, only to receive a faint response at launch, this rhythm does make it easier to preserve morale. ...

This is the fourth essay in Reckoning with Reality. The previous essay examined how intelligent people use competence to escape. This one asks the next question: once we leave the study, what kind of action actually brings us closer to the facts? “Think less, do more” may be one of the hardest pieces of advice to dispute today. It sounds brave and direct, and it often works. Many people are stuck not because they lack ability, but because they never quite put their work into someone else’s hands. ...

This is the third essay in Reckoning with Reality. The previous essay examined the limits of profit. This one turns to a more personal question: why can greater ability sometimes make it harder to reach the facts? I used to think that avoiding something must look like scrolling on a phone, procrastinating, or doing nothing. Later I learned that the hardest form of avoidance to recognize is often remarkably diligent. It comes with thorough documentation, elegant architecture, an unbroken commit history, and late nights at work. ...

This is the second essay in Reckoning with Reality. The introduction began with a dinner-table argument. This essay asks only one question: what exactly does profit record on its scorecard? “If a business makes a lot of money,” my friend said, “that means it creates value.” My first impulse was to argue. Then I realized that calling him wrong was easy. Explaining precisely where he was right, and where he went too far, was much harder. ...

This is the introduction to Reckoning with Reality, a seven-part collection of audits on profit, action, technology, and choice. A few days ago, over dinner with a friend, we began talking about what to do next. “The essence of entrepreneurship is making money,” he said. “If a business makes a lot of money, that means it creates value. If it keeps losing money, it is wasting everyone’s time and capital.” ...

This piece is me going back over my own books. Two years ago I wrote down a sentence I’d counted among the things I had figured out. Recently, while chasing the source of a four-character phrase, I pulled it back out — and found it may be backwards from top to bottom. A sentence I’ve been carrying for two years In October 2025 I wrote this in my notes: ...

Same product, different name, different score There’s something I’ve been watching for a long time without finding the right place to write it down. In the same product community, you’ll regularly see two small tools with nearly identical features. One launches and sinks without a trace; the other gets shared repeatedly and draws serious questions. Look at both product pages: similar craftsmanship, similar pricing, landing pages built from the same template, even. The real difference sits in the small line under the maker’s name — “maintainer of such-and-such project,” “has written about xx for three years.” ...

After the Framework Stood Up, I Realized I Had No “Shared Workshop” The five-part Info-to-Creation series got the framework standing: information gets collected and denoised, records settle into half-finished goods, knowledge gets structured into capability, creation reorganizes it for an audience. But after writing that line in Layer 3: Knowledge — “your knowledge base is the workshop you share with your AI” — something kept nagging at me. ...

The seed of this piece was a conversation that ran for several rounds — starting from small talk about the weather and sliding, almost by accident, into “what is life even made of?” It won’t hand you an answer, because the thing actually worth having grows precisely where there is no answer. ...