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

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 · 24 min · 5034 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me
April 2026 Thought Notes

April 2026 Thought Notes

2026年4月思考笔记 AI 知识时效性:从 RAG 到元认知的解决思路 2026 年 04 月 30 日 - 14:46:26 有些工具现在用的是时效性的方法 比如说是通过一些 API 或者 RAG 系统挂在最新的文档 或者是 web search 最新的数据源 元认知层,让模型知道自己不知道,这是更难的问题 显式标注知识截止日期 训练模型在时效敏感问题上主动表达不确定性 系统提示里注入当前日期,让模型对比自身知识边界 时间戳溯源,每一条知识附带获取时间,超时自动触发重新验证 越旧的信息置信度越低,触发 fallback 到搜索 对高频变动领域(金融、法律、医疗)设置强制校验节点 一个模型生成答案,另一个专门质疑时效性 #格物/ai 利他性记录:有意义才有持续驱动 2026 年 04 月 30 日 - 14:07:21 利他性的前提,是这件事情对他很有意义 这个平台很 有记录的价值 可以展现,或者发挥自己的特长 这样可以激励用户去持续的记录和创作 旅途影响的涟漪效应 2026 年 04 月 30 日 - 13:33:53 身边受到自己影响的旅游的影响的人好像也有一些哈哈哈 日本人的规则感:老挝砍价与文化观察 2026 年 04 月 30 日 - 13:24:11 ...

April 30, 2026 · 22 min · 4663 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me
March 2026 Thought Notes

March 2026 Thought Notes

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. ...

March 31, 2026 · 18 min · 3763 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

February 2026 Thought Notes | 2026 年 2 月思考笔记 Total: 365 notes this month | February 1-28, 2026 Monthly Themes: Travel, Ecology, Urban Observation Core Topics: Travel Experiences (~80 notes), AI Products (~45 notes), Ecological Protection (~25 notes), Urban Governance (~20 notes), Buddhism & Philosophy (~30 notes), Self-Discovery (~40 notes) Selected Notes of the Month Desire & Resources: The Dilemma of Wildlife Protection 2026-02-01 21:31:47 Wildlife protection is truly a massive challenge. How to protect wild ecosystems—I feel this is incredibly important. Because it’s not just about development and economics; it’s something more fundamental. ...

February 28, 2026 · 28 min · 5899 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me

December 2025 Thought Notes

December 2025 Thought Notes | 2025 年 12 月思考笔记 Total: 380 notes this month | December 1-31, 2025 Monthly Themes: Pilgrimage, Inner Observation, Year-End Reflection Core Topics: Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage (~40 notes), Zen Buddhism & Philosophy (~35 notes), Self-Discovery & Personality (~30 notes), Japanese Culture & Architecture (~25 notes), AI & Technology (~30 notes) Selected Notes of the Month Kumano Kodo: History Accumulated Step by Step 2025-12-01 17:04:20 Kumano Kodo pilgrimage, immersive experience. The most rewarding part of solo hiking is being with yourself—just focus on yourself and the path beneath your feet, walk naturally without needing to “break through” yourself or nature. Respect yourself, respect nature. ...

December 31, 2025 · 38 min · 7998 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

Travel · The World Game

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In 2023, I Was Wandering at the Edge of the World

In 2023, I Was Wandering at the Edge of the World

about me #Last College Career #Travel Observations #Transnational Adventure #Life Change #Growth Story #Exploring the Unknown #Memoir #Cultural Experience #Natural Beauty #City Walk #History Precipitation #Outdoor Adventure #Mountain and River Camping #First Time in Life #World Heritage #Food Experience #Life and Work Balance #Graduation Countdown #From Wuhan Go to Shenzhen #Anhui Huangshan #Explore the ancient city of Shexian #Lijiang Ancient City Tour #江西武公山 adventure #Hong Kong MacLehose Trail #Macau Parisian Travel #Western Sichuan Snow Mountain Shocking #MalaysiaSolo Travel #SingaporeExplore ...

March 3, 2024 · 36 min · 7563 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me
An out-of-focus coffee cup above Quanzhou's old city, with Kaiyuan Temple's twin pagodas beyond the red-tiled roofs

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

August 3, 2026 · 11 min · 2162 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me
Infinite grids of generated images dissolve into a real mountain and river experience with physical consequences

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 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. ...

July 31, 2026 · 7 min · 1345 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me
The same person presenting different states in markets, caves, and urban rooms

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 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. ...

July 31, 2026 · 7 min · 1410 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me
A traveler stands at a crossroads of repetitive cities, still connected to unfinished relationships behind

When Distance No Longer Changes You: What Keeps Life Moving After Exploration Fails

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. ...

July 31, 2026 · 6 min · 1224 words · Xinwei Xiong, Me
Lhasa: Slow and Heavy

Lhasa: Slow and Heavy

This article is available in Chinese. An English translation is in progress. From February to March 2026, I stayed in Lhasa, Tibet — a city that forces you to slow down before you can begin to understand it. The altitude arrives first, then the silence, and finally the weight of everything the city carries. This piece explores what it means to be a stranger in a place where time moves differently, where the landscape is both physical and spiritual, and where the ordinary and the sacred exist side by side. ...

March 27, 2026 · 1 min · 103 words · Xinwei Xiong
A tsukubai stone water basin with a bamboo spout in a Kyoto garden, maple leaves floating on the water

Japan Travel Notes — Learning to Be with Time Through Wood, Fire, and Gaps

July 2025, Hakone · Mount Fuji · Tokyo, 10 days November–December 2025, Kansai autumn — Wakayama · Kumano · Nara · Kyoto, 15 days It’s March 2026. I’m sitting in a café in Siem Reap writing this. Two kilometers outside the window is Angkor Wat — those sandstone corridors, each stone hundreds of years old, the whole complex like it’s wrestling with time through volume, through weight, through stone that will never rot. ...

December 15, 2025 · 14 min · 2875 words · Xinwei Xiong