Daily Blog

I restarted my blog, redesigned its layout, and migrated it from GitHub Pages to Cloudflare Pages, all with the help of an AI agent. Without that help, this work might have taken several days. There were many unexpected bugs and configuration problems, and I have experienced that kind of painful process more than once. This time, it took only about...

Rebooting this blog today after a hiatus. Inspired by Alex West and Tiny Projects, I’m shifting to a zero-friction, write-in-public model: Daily Logs: Short, unpolished everyday updates on what I’m learning, AI agent experiments, code commits, and indie maker thoughts. Projects Showcase: Building and launching small AI tools and software products in the open. No Overhead: Zero tags, zero complex...

Perter Senge’s concept of Personal Mastery, which is one of the famous ‘The Fifth Descipline’ has always captured my attention. Each time I read through it I get fresh new insight. It’s my favorite part of the book. The essence of Personal Mastery is the continuous generation and maintenance of what he called “creative tension”. In plain words, we must...

In the last 3 weeks, I have been watching udemy related courses, mainly Python, as well as some about AI, machine learning, and data analysis. I can confirm that this is really something I enjoy, because programming involves two main characteristics: determinism and creativity. Some days are basically programmed all day, only in this way, can break through the card...

We have several initials ready to launch, one of which is to leverage data to enhance the advertising campaign on Facebook. The other is to take outsource development projects assigned by a giant company. It seems that in order to make money anything could be accepted to do. It’s a little misshape of doing things as a tech startup. After...

I have updated my blog site several days ago. It looks much cleaner and simpler. The English site and Chinese site use the same template. After so much work on customization, the appearance looks much better now. I like it. I believe it will boost my writing and the related work from a brand new start. Besides, I devote my...

Learning programming and python is like a marathon for me. It took more than 10 years sporadically. No one time the endeavor lasted more than several months. Things should’ve not been like this. What a loser. I’ve restarted my learning by conducting real projects. From an article I try to learn how to crawl SEC 10-K files through its API...

It’s painful to see that no much things had been done or no much progress had been made if you look back to the past time, especially if you knew why it was being so. For me, I still hadn’t defeated the monster inside of myself. It continued to destroy myself by wasting bulk of time. Sleeping late, procrastinating what...

I decided to go back to my A1 project, which means that I would put more attention and effort into it. I have ambivalent feeling on it, and turn a little away from it. Now it may be the time to go back. It’s still a conduct that needs my endeavor to survive.

There are some English words that I don’t comprehend thoroughly while encountering them frequently. One of those is “relentless”. Till now, I may understand it more deeply. It’s an attitude, behavior and choice from the bottom of the heart, especially when the days are getting hard and difficult. In such case, it would be too bad and stupid that indulging...

Reciting many new words today. That’s my weakness point, which I hope to be resolved in this week. As for A1, just stay cool.

Recite many new words. Also some exercises on long&sophisticated sentences. A good restart from the very basics that were neglected before. I have also another project in content creation: Writing a book. This is also a thing planned to do very early(could be traced back to 2016) but never really done. I would do it seriously and continuously in this...

The result of GMAT exam reminded me of my unstable English basics. My English was not poor and each time I could get a high score in the past. But it was not strong enough for GMAT exam. Besides, I had not studied and exercised English for many years, i.e. the the level of my English had no improvement. That’s...

Become interested in Ayn Land and her thoughts these days. Reading books and essays about her biography and philosophy, I accept her point on individualism against collectivism. I was born in China, one of the only few remained countries that still adhere to the so-called socialism ideology. In fact, most people here just want to make more many by all...

It’s a wasting time in last month from the end of June to July. I’m in a mood of unwilling to do anything. The reason is multifold. I feel bad. And I know that things won’t work in by that way. Now I’m back.

The GMAT exam failed like a dog. My preparation was not well. Time devoted into it was far from enough. The methods didn’t work. My strength had no way to play the part just because of my sleepy status during the exam. What a shame! I decide to restart the preparation with a brand new method and thorough resolution.

I was trying hard to indulge into the state of writing by reading and writing a lot. The data is so ugly that I don’t want to see it. Otherwise I may lose confidence. This is not regular writing that just for myself and for fun I did in the past. This is a content creation to serve the readers....

People are also important. That’s what I always neglect in the past. I should take other people’s feeling into consideration. If agreement can’t be reached because each side has own strong opinion and won’t give in, then let the conversation be peaceful instead of turning it into a debate. That’s a wise policy. After all, it’s a work contributed by...

Have a long phone talk with a workmate. A necessary one.

Raining all day. I sit in front of a glass door, watching the rain sprinkling on the wood floor outside. The sky is gray, and my surroundings are silent. I stop working, just watching towards outside, thinking of nothing.

An editor of a publishing house recommends me to write a book. The theme could be related to something like data, AI application, product, traffic monetization an so on. That’s a challenge to me, and also a “should do” thing. I like writing, why not write a book to make a real start? Besides, it could be a way of...

I’ve written a lot posts about focus on the most important work that has real impact on myself and the future. But each time the focus goes to distracted after several days or weeks. That is one type of entropy. To resist it this daily post has the responsibility, in the way of monitor or retrospect. Although the post’s writing...

I decided to go to bed before midnight(0:00) from today on. The fact is I go back to sleep late mode in the last two month recently. 1 a.m or 2 a.m is usual hour. The result is not good. Stay tuned in the day. Go to bed early at night.

Just read a post about an AI search application made by a domestic indie hacker. The site attracts more than 60k traffic worldwide, indicating that the PMF stage has been found. Then I search the author and know that he resigned last year to be an indie hacker. Similar story like me and also a guy with no willingness to...

Read several hours about Sartre and his existential philosophy. Tracing the line I go back to Nietzsche again and try to gain more and deeper understanding. I have read these two giants’ work several months and years ago. Astonished and inspired by their astounding words. Also, I read Aynland’s Fountainhead, another masterwork that makes me rethink how to live a...

Writing this daily blog(I hope it could exist as a daily base) is mainly three disciplines: Indie hacker: as an IH one should polish his skill and mind regularly to resist the powerful tendency of entropy. Writing: I use it as a way to practice my English writing. Maybe one day I could write a book in English. Track: Track...

It’s a strange thing that we are still struggling with what is PMF and how to find it. We have tried some, but none of them seem successful in the market. Our founder comes up with many ideas frequently, each of which lasts no more than two weeks with replacement by the next. There are lots of problems in work...

GMAT Review the mistakes I made in the exercise of reading comprehension yesterday night. After more than one month’s exercise I drew a conclusion that my weakness was verbal including RC and CR, and the main reason was reading speed. On average the I spend more nearly 3 minutes per question. That doesn’t work in real exam definitely. Indie hacker...

There is up and down as you step your feet forward, just like tides’ rising and falling. My falling lasts for about two months, during which I got lost. For this, the indie hacker work suspended without any progress. From today on, I regain my strength and decide to go back to the track. The echo is still laudable that...

It seems that I don’t have much to say these days, even though I’ve read a lot and done a lot. Why? I don’t know. Tracing back to the last year from September, the enthusiasm of expressing myself and recoding the work and thought is high. One reason maybe that I’ve lost a companion along the way. The companion is...

It seems that I get into a trap in which I can’t figure out what is really important and what to do. After all, I did nothing for indie hacker in the several weeks of May, except for that I’ve bought a book related to Python. I spent much time on my entrepreneur and writing work. Besides, I’ve started preparing...

It’s Labor’s day and the holiday lasts for 5 days from May 1st to 5th. There’s always been too much people in almost all attractions in such holidays. It’s the Chinese style of holiday. I stay in Beijing instead of going back to Zhengzhou which is the first idea. In the first day I and my wife go to a...

I’ve started preparing the GMAT exam at the end of April. It’s a long history talking about taking exam and going abroad. In 2008 I’ve started preparing GRE, and then decided to turn to domestic postgraduate. The idea of going abroad arose again in 2015, and prepared GMAT for about 1 month, then ended up with nothing. Now it’s been...

These days I’ve studied policies on immigrants to America. It’s the first time I get to know those details, and it makes me a little tired. The policy is getting much more strict. Too much Chinese turn to this way out because of several reasons. Anyway, it’s not a must for me. My biggest focus is still to make good...

I’ve quitted my job and started a venture for about 5 months. We’ve made some progress, but not quite much. So is my Indie Hacker learning. But I won’t give up though. There is no easy way in growth.

Last night I had a discussion with two co-founders. The discussion went on for over three hours. We had met a problem and the consensus was hardly to be achieved. I slept till 2 a.m. and got up late to 9 a.m. this morning. So I worked at home. In the morning there would be a scheduled meeting. I had...

I find myself still struggling in how to write better in Chinese. I’ve read a lot books related to how to write, and I’m sure that I’m on the track of being a good writer. But till now, I’m a little about the poor writing quality and speed. I set a task as the baseline: publish at least two well...

It’s too busy last week that I didn’t write a memo. Here is it. There is a progress in data quality enhancement and some new features added. I’ve read a lot on how to write a better essay. The principle of writing concisely attracts me. I have to practice more to make the knowledge become real. I’ve also read something...

I work whole day to gather the bad cases and transfer them to those who are responsible for fixing bugs. At night I go to the National Stadium to take a walk. A lovely Saturday.

I write this dairy note is for a memo of my work and learning, but also a discipline of my life. In this sense, I should make this writing as the ceremony for the ending of one day, instead of a burden homework. It’s an opportunity for me to recap what I have done and learnt in this day. It...

Sleeping late is like drinking alcohol: you may feel fantastic and painful mixed at that time, but left only painful in the next day. And the worse is that the willingness to do things is exhausted. I have goal, plan, desire and time, but just do nothing. I can’t fight back and push myself to act. I would not sleep...

A new start of indie hacker journey: web development. I use the web developer camp 2022 in Udemy. A wonderful course. Besides, I get to know the Growth mindset recommended by Professor Carol Dweck. I am the one who used to be trapped in the fixed mindset. That’s why I reach high in the first half and then fall down...

Yes, it’s a painful thing but you must do diving into the mess. That’s the work, and also life. That’s why we need love and enthusiasm in the first place.

Today I rest at home. The spring comes. It’s warm outside, and kinds of trees are blooming. I take a sleep. After that, I feel lack in the willingness to do anything. But I can’t see time pass by like this. So I start to watch movie “Batman”, the Dark Knight series, which I may have watched ten years ago...

It’s holiday from April 4th to 6th, while we are still working for speeding up. However, I’m not sure about how much have I achieved. The subject is still about data quality. I devote much time and effort into it but little effect. I must rethink the work method and make it more efficient.

We have encountered the messy and annoying problems related much to data quality. It’s an expected result. I have reminded it months ago but no one cares about it. Well, it finally comes out with no surprise. And everyone gets stuck and reports kinds of bugs. Data engineer is exhausted on putting out fires here and there. That’s not a...

I remind myself of being calm and peace, not thinking of those annoying things. Just focus on my own work and be smart. There are always times when people don’t know you. Not a big deal. Don’t waste much time on this.

It’s the end of winter and the beginning of spring. It seems that I’ve done much, but nothing much to say when doing summary of it. What a joke! But indeed, I have done something anyway. Some important features have been added to our product. The projects of A2 and A3 relaunch. And most importantly, I feel the momentum is...

What would you do if someone offends you many times? For me, I may peace it down in the past. But now, I would fight back each time. It’s an renewal attitude: there should be no one order anything like a boss to me. I am my own boss… and God.

I’ve read some stories of indie hacker. Each has his or her own growing line. But there is a common: they all persist till the end, no matter how hard it is or anything hinders them on the way. If there is a trick to success, that’s it. Don’t expect the journey to be comfortable. That’s not the truth. It...

My work in my startup is mainly about designing. Designing what? Product, a AI-based business intelligence product. Another whole day of designing, from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m. after midnight. It includes research of other related products, thinking of business logics and making sense of each function and experience. I feel myself like a God in the whelm of my...

This the 12rd week of 2024, indicating that one quarter of the year has been passed by. I feel a little nervous about the speed, and also wonder that what do I have done and achieved? Today I go to the Olympic Park to have a walk. After that I go to new library that has been built just a...

I made the presentation. It was a good one. I can feel that my public speaking capability is getting better. I am happy about that. I will practice it much more harder.

This weekend we are supposed to hold a monthly meeting to our investors, showing what progress we’ve made. I am the one who will make a presentation of product features: What we do, why we do these, and where we have arrived. I do this presentation before in the end of January this year. This is the second meeting. I...

I’ve updated the framework of self management according the new fact and recognition of my work and life. I believe it will leverage the efficiency much more. I also read a great book about self management today: Self-theories from Carl Dweck, a set of essays in social psychology. I get to know what holds me back in the past for...

Our product is nearing the launch of version 1.0 which is aiming to land in the real market. There are still many key features to be developed, many bugs to be fixed and many issues to be discussed and settled. No bullshit. Just do it.

I have a lot of decisions to make these days. Most of them are quite small ones, but I spend too much time. Then I know that there is an important capability for self-managers and entrepreneurs: make quick decision, make things move fast. If there’s something wrong, leave them till later. Don’t worry too much. Things are getting better in...

For writing well, I do four tasks: Routine writing: writing at least 2000 words and refine&publish 3 articles one week. Reading at a large scale: read high quality masterpiece. Writing skill learning Writing practice: write a book or novel as a beginning From yesterday on, I start to read The Red and the Black, a french novel written by Stendhal....

When the planning period is finished and the to-do list is settled, the rest is just doing. When I throw myself into the work, just do one thing and then the next, without much thinking or wandering, I feel good and productive. That’s the secret of sustaining a streaming momentum and status. Besides, I don’t want to be ordered by...

I restart the learning of Python today. The secret of action is no intervention of thought when the to-do list says what you should do next. Thought is necessary when in planning, but a burden when in action. Another thing… my MacBook was repaired a month ago, but left a small but annoying problem. Everything’s fine when start the laptop,...

Work is going on in progress. In the version 0.9, we add RAG feature to the original retrieval route, hoping that the accuracy would be at a high and stable level. Besides, in TODAY, March 6th, I decided to launch the project X, which aims to the future apart from the project A(A1, A2, A3). This is the thing what...

I read a business plan file from Tencent in 2002. The analysis is profound and thorough. The author is just a project manager but acts like a real leader. I always said that I wanted to be the one having the final decision. Now it’s the answer: don’t just “want”. If that’s your wish, then be realistic: Think and behave...

Productivity lowing down in Saturday and Friday. I’m aware of that but do little to change it. So the streaming is broken. I have to fix it with any effective ways, ASAP.

Four year a time: day 29 in February. It seems that the speed of time passing would be counted as four years’ pace. I read a paper saying that the reason of time passing faster as age growing is because people stop learning new things when they get old. I agree with that. Repetition is the killer of life. I’m...

I drive home at about 19 o’clock, and have dinner. This is the time after sunset and before go to bed. I don’t think it’s well utilized. I always watch TV with my family when having dinner. And after dinner, I feel a tired and no willingness to do anything. The whole time after sunset does not have outcome. I’m...

My work is mainly about data, covering the whole process what we call pipeline. The start is the data source, including first party and third party data. We are going to get the data into our platform and use tool to analyze and show it. This work is being undertook for several months and is not finished yet. From today...

No matter what good or bad words I say about my life, I have to admit that in general and at every angle, it’s a very happy one and definitely worthwhile living. So I have to learn stop judging and complaining. Just do what’s real important, and devote the whole energy into it. Talk about things about how to improve...

Every weekend meeting makes me a little angry. I feel that I fall into another trap of working in a large company. I feel terrible every time when I realize this. I devote much of my time and effort but don’t get the corresponding reward and dignity. It’s urgent to speed up my own way. They are: Indie hacker project...

It seems that the work of A1 are occupying all of my time from awaking to bedtime. That’s a really bad thing. In A1 I am just a co-founder and I don’t feel happy about it really. I’ve done the most but got no dignity. And those people are accustomed to just say instead of doing the ground work. They...

Last night I slept at 3 a.m. for completing the left undone routine. Work at home the whole day. Feeling uncomfortable about eye and cheek. Overwhelmed by product planning. What kind of a business intelligence product do clients need and like? How can we use the power of AI into the working process? What features are the most urgently needed?...

I have a daily routine. It’s a list of must-do tasks that are the basics of one day. If the completion rate is well, I can say this day is not wasted. The tasks is 4-1 structured: 4 daily habits and 1 knowledge management process. Sometimes when work is busy, the routine tasks may be undone. And I will accomplish...

I should remind myself to be focused repeatedly. If not, too much fragmented info would get in and overwhelm me. Ignore the rubbish thread or video on social media. Don’t swipe the cellphone mindlessly like a zombie. Go back to the original point and regain the enthusiasm, refresh what’s the most important, set the goal and just do it. Be...

I go several places with my family these days. For example, I visit Kaifeng, an ancient city where many dynasties locate their capital. I also visit some famous parks in Zhengzhou. There are always too many people in tourist attractions when in holiday in China. So I’ve canceled some plans as I see the horrible pics showing “mountain people mountain...

In 2024, I set some goals for myself: As a cofounder, make the company survive and thrive. Earn enough money from various ways to escape the debt and going abroad. Main way: develop a profitable app independently. Write 1 book and 100 articles. Prepare for going aboard to start a new life. No bullshit. Let’s start.

In Chinese tradition Spring Festival is a happy time when the whole family get together and celebrate. We may eat and drink, wear new clothes, let off fireworks, visit relatives… I like it very much when I was a kid. As the age grows, the excited feeling fades away. But in general, it’s still a special time that signals one...

It’s near Chinese Spring Festival which is at 2-9. Today I drive home from Beijing to Zhengzhou, a provincial capital（Henan province) in the middle of China. I haven’t been home for celebrating Spring Festival for 4 years since the pandemic of Covid-19. The Chinese government did’t allow or advocate people go home for fear of virus spreading due to large...

Without computer, it seems that I can hardly do anything. Several days ago I bring the Macbook to the Genius bar and the staff tells me they can do nothing about water inflow occasion. They suggest just dry it for three days and see whether it can restart. Otherwise the machine is damaged badly. The fix cost is high and...

My laptop was damaged by water inflow when I grabbed the bottle but made it down carelessly. I bought it just about half a year ago. So sad.

Time is such a thing that if you don’t care about it with your heart you’ll soon find out that you’re dumped without any goodbye. “To make each day count” is a hard but worthwhile lifestyle to be practiced. This is why I persist on this daily blog, even if no one else sees it or my awkward writing English....

A topic that’s be mentioned again in a month. My sleep in this week was bad. It went back to the sleeping late mode. However, the different part is that I get up early in the morning on 7 a.m, which means that I don’t get enough sleeping hours in a day. So the bad effect comes: my energy in...

I figure out that I must do something that is under my full control. I call it “My own projects”. Not only because of the fairness staff, but also about the happiness. I wouldn’t be upset on some trivial things when many people get together that the communication cost goes high. So I would pay much more attention to “My...

From this week I start to get up at 7 a.m. After washing, driving, and breakfast, I manage to sit in front of the desk at 8 o’clock to start one day’s work. It’s not only an enlarge of the whole working time, but also a refreshment for my status.

The coding work of the product’s version 0.8 is near finished. And I start to examine and check the work the whole day. A lot of bugs or unpleasant user experiences. But still a big step forward. The work is tedious, and the communication is exhausted. Despite these difficulties, I’m determined to make out an excellent data product.

I pay too little attention to the maintaining of people relationship, not only in the work field, but also in the family. A huge mistake.

Sleeping is always a major and basic problem for me. One is sleep late at night, and the other is that sleep too much at noon. The bad habit breaks the structure and balance of a whole day. Especially in the afternoon I feel quite bad and thus so unproductive. The time is wasted. There are mainly two ways to...

My swimming learning has come to the 4th class. In the beginning there are 3 equipments to facilitate the process. Now there’s only one left. Nice progress. However, there’s still no progress in my Python learning in the whole December. As a matter of fact, it’s totally suspended, meaning that the time I’ve put in it is zero. So is...

The version 0.8 is near end. I’ve started to check and accept the product. Boss’s ideas change many times, so we have to make adjustments accordingly during the period of coding. Maybe that’s why startups always change. I’ve read an article on HBR about energy management. The author points out that the idea of time management is out of date....

The new year 2024 has come. It seems that so many people are unhappy for the past whole year, and here comes an opportunity to leash out. They go out at the threshold eve to celebrate and yell. I am not one of them. My 2023 is a infection point for me, and I’m full of hope and happiness to...

It’s 7-8 o’clock in the morning. The warm winter sunlight sheds in the window. I’m quite peaceful and hopeful. No crap. The goals for 2024 and the future: The main goals: Earn enough capital to reach financial independent; Prepare for academics aboard as my 2nd half of life. The work projects need to do: Build a profitable product as a...

The year 2023 is near to the end. I have not much to say about it. For me, 2023 is a brand new start to a new kind of life, meaning that I say goodbye to the old version of me. In my whole life it’s the very first time that I start to both consider thoroughly and execute quickly...

In the end of October I quit my job, and from then on I start to work for myself. It’s a much more flexible work style. My workplace is coffee shop, library or any other places like home or car. But the main drawback I find is that I talk too little. There is no typical environment that you can...

I think I’m not brave enough. I don’t have enough courage. When things go uneasy, I always step back and escape from it by doing other bullshit. A coward.

I’m so disappointed about the political environment in China. You can say nothing about anything, even the most common fact or history, if it has a just little relationship with what the Party doesn’t think you should think or know. The magazine Caixin.com published an editorial article that recalling the history of China’s reform based on respecting the truth. And...

I should and must have respect for sleep, just like John Nash’s having respect for beer in Princeton’s library. Sleep early, get up early and have a good sleep… is the first step to a productive and successful day. At night my willpower goes down, and always forget to go to bed at time. The result is that in the...

This weekend I attended a wedding ceremony. Warm one. Then I brought my family to shopping mall. For me, Christmas Eve is a time to celebrate the whole year, and also a time to recall the past and look ahead the future. In China, government media always guides the public opinion to the wrong side. This time it makes people...

Entropy is everywhere. Once you are careless, things would definitely go into a mess. It’s a fight in your heart and soul. It’s a physical labour that needs sweat and blood. Don’t think be natural at all time. You have to intervene when it’s inclining to go bad. It’s not an entertainment. It’s a war.

I have said many times that I don’t have full control in the project A1 in the previous posts, which makes me unhappy each time when it encounters the occasion reminding me of it. I think that I should spend more time on the things that I have full control of. I realize that I’m the kind of person who...

In the post Content creation at large scale , I’ve listed several lists to boost the volume of writing. Now I decided to start the list: Book Reading Comment. I could go to the library, grab a good book, read it and write what I thought quickly. The process is just for a glance of the book. So I won’t...

When you know what you’re doing, and most things start to get onto the track and be in the control, you would feel good. Because you know that everything’s getting fine. You are closer to your goal. I end the last low state period and reboot again. The spiral rotation start to go upward. I make a progress about interviewing...

There are various ways to reboot oneself. I have to figure out what fits me. In the previous post, I set the baseline: body. I have already made a good sleep. Next, the planning would be like the to do list below: Exercise: Start regular aerobic exercise besides the swimming class: running. Prepare the basic equipment for running. Run for...

Life is like a spiral rotation. The difference is whether you choose to be upward or downward. After one week’s low productivity that suspends the previous momentum, I try to make the change. I sleep two hours this noon to recharge the energy after many days’ staying up late. The broken balance also destroy my willingness to do anything. Restart...

Certainly I’m quite aware of the importance of momentum. I’ve written a post about it. The last two weeks were an example of momentum stagnation. I felt low. I didn’t want to do anything. I tried to encourage myself to cheer up but failed. Just like escaping Hulk in the movie ‘The Avengers 4’. But there were no Thanos who...

The real challenge comes when one is alone. My momentum seems to pause during my stay in Shenzhen. Because I live in a hotel by myself, far from my family without others. The bad habits all come. I try to fight back, but I lose. I start to stay up late playing cellphone games, till 3 a.m. in some days....

I have an appointment with my friend ZX today in the morning. And the conversation ends in the evening. We talked about the start-up work, family and thoughts. The work had so many problems from product, technology to management, human resource. We must face and solve them one by one. ZX and his wife just had got a baby, and...

We have a opening celebration this Saturday. I also fly Shenzhen on that day. We make lots of preparation for that this week. As for the product, v0.8 is about to start. There are some adjustments about the info structure. I wrote the planning document this week.

Our company opens in today’s morning. A day worth celebrating. The co-founders all come. We invite our angel investors come too. We have a small and happy opening celebration. In the noon we have a lunch. I’m now in the hotel writing this post. To be frank, I’m not exited. Just peaceful. I don’t know whether we will succeed this...

I went on a business trip to Shenzhen from today till next weekend. Beijing is in cold winter. Just after about 6 hours, I landed where was still like summer. In order to save money for the startup, the airline and hotel were both the cheapest. Uncomfortable trip and place to sleep. Quite different from when I was in large...

Tuesday and Wednesday wasn’t good. I went back to sleep late and the productivity in the day was like a dog. Bad mood either, with no willingness to do anything. Sleep more than 2 hours in the afternoon. Swimming class canceled. So terrible. Such a mess. Fighting against entropy is the ultimate meaning of life. I agree with that. Stop...

After several days’ writing, my strategy on content creation is clearer. First, I am going to write dozens of articles in selected serious to fulfill the sites: blog_zh and SocraData(https://socradata.com). The writing task: 100 articles blog_zh: comment on book reading: 20 articles; thought essay: 20 articles; Others: 20 articles; SocraData: GPT/AI basics(learning notes): 20 articles; Python learning notes: 20 articles;...

I want to find a way to create content at large scale. This way might be more of exercise intention instead of just intrinsic. There should be dozens of essays published at first to make a basic launch. And then it might be the time to write several articles with careful revision. The way is serious or vertical writing. I...

This week A1 project has made a progress in data asset. I have organized all the data tables and metrics, and built dozens of data cards. And there are some changes to be made after a discussion with our potential customer. We’ll see this be in planning next week. In content creation I’ve also written several articles, which uses less...

I would like to organize my learning activities to make it more clear and efficient. Two lines: For project For knowledge Learning for project For project line, it’s flexible to learn what the project’s goal needs to learn. To know or understand something, or to learn the skills. Learning could be three in various forms. Don’t restrict it in reading,...

I wrote a post be humble several days ago. I would like to emphasis this character again. Being humble means paying less attention to dignity. It’s meaningless to care about what image you have in others’ eyes. But what you know and learn matters. My goal is to make things accomplished and make myself stronger alongside. Always be humble to...

When I joined my A1 project as co-founder, I come up with a company domain name called Socradata.com, which stems from the combination of Socrates and Data implying the asking intelligence of the product. The proposal is not adopted in the end. But I like it so much that I buy it myself. For the last few months I was...

I decided to build healthy habits last week. The most important part is sleep and sport. I sleep before 23:30 each night, whereas it’s about 1 a.m. previously in contrast. Make a small step to end the habit of staying up late. Good track! Move on. As for the sport, I decide to learn swimming as the first step. I...

Time framework is what I use to make the work flow more smoothly and automatically. I have an edition of it one month ago. Now I would like to update it. I divide my whole day into 2 large blocks and 5 small blocks(or fragment time). These blocks have its own time period while also are flexible among each in...

In order to make it more clear and organized about what the true work that I should do, I would like make an statement by using the clause”if I’m in the role of… then I do…”, just like what Mintzberg discovered in his famous Manager’s Role Theory. (Mintzberg is one of my favorite management scholars, here is his other insightful...

This week I mainly do one thing: Start Chinese Blog as my first project in Content Creation. Time spent are much more than expected, from 1 day to 3 days. I’ve built it to meet my standard at my best. And also I decide not to let the perfectionism take over again. Set the scope and limit, and accept the...

In one’s whole life, there may not be many things worth doing with full heart. In fact, having done only one work well is by no means a waste of life. So the dedicated things, should be selected carefully in terms of what you really want to do or what you’re good at to do. For me, there are several...

I solve the problem of image uploading configuration using a cloud storage service. Again this time that many little problems along the way. I realize that problems are impossible to be solved all at once, just like work can’t be done all. It emerges one by one. As long as you want to do something, it is just there to...

I quit my job last month not only to start my own projects as a new entrepreneur journey, but also to build new habits to lead a healthy life. A healthy lifestyle is actually what I need at the foremost above all things. Yes, I say “above all things”, meaning that more important than conducting projects. It’s the basic foundation...

After I wrote “settled” last day, which was supposed to make a closure to the new Chinese blog configuring thing, I continue doing that for a whole day. Although it’s opposite to my rationality and discipline, I also realize and confirm one thing: I like designing and coding cool staff. I’m happy with this confirmation. It erases the fear and...

My second blog, which is written in Chinese, is established. Another time of spending lots of time searching proper theme, configuring the details and looking for solutions when I encounter annoying problems. I have the confidence to say that I’ve already met most of problems while building a jekyll blog and get the answer to them, including those quite rarely...

I decide to step forward on my content creation(i.e. project A3). No more planning from the top. Just start from the ground. Daily blog is the very start. I document my progress and thoughts in detail. And it’s on the domain liwuqiong.com. Based on this site, I would like to add a feature listing the projects I’m doing. It’s a...

Second week of my own journey. A normal one with not so much productivity. I throw a lot time and effort into my work and indeed make a progress. The construction of metrics hub welcomes the join of FBA Inventory, a really huge and complicated theme. I read a lot to get a basic understanding of it and to make...

This weekend I learnt how to use docsify, a light and simple open source tool for making and managing online wiki and documents. Quite easy that only took less than 10 minitues to build and deploy. And another about 30 minitues to add more basic features like nav, sidebar and other staff. But the bad thing is that after the...

Having a little problem with a teammate in communication. We see things from different angles. And the way he talks to others made me unhappy. I should be more generous than I used to be. Don’t pay much attention to the way people treat myself. The only focus is to make things work. To make my goal achieved. I can...

I spent nearly whole time to make a progress on project A1. There were much detail and dirty work at the beginning. I have to do it. Don’t complain. Be humble. This is a jouney of learning.

This week is the first week after I quit my job and start a new journey of doing my own projects. Project A1 runs on the rails. Metrics library is established through API request, about 50% progress. And UI of our product is upgraded. There are also many annoying problems, most of which come from the status quo that we...

Sleeping late again. I hate this. The bad habit is stubborn to continue existing. Alchohol, Game, and sleeping late, they always come together. I have to beat them one by one. If not erase it, neglect it at least.

Learning programming python the whole day, covering the topic about functions, modules and http requests. I don’t think it’s productive. I could have done more, including some works on A1 and A3 project. The feeling of losing balance is bad. Time should be spent properly according to the todo list and adjusted quickly. Do the right thing first is always...

Learning a new language is a kind of patience practicing, just like other skills. You are supposed to stay calm, patient, step by step. Don’t hesitate. I get a little impatient. I want to speed up the pase, to go over the basics part quikly. I wan to get to the real project part to reverse the learning process. In...

It seems that time and energy is never enough for the to-do list. It’s used up so soon that can be hardly aware of. And the worse part is figuring out what has been done is not so much compared to the amount of time and energy spent. Fuck! This week has been two days past by. The above is...

First of all, I must get the basic programming skills that enable me to make an MVP. The stack includes python for backend, javascript, html, css for front end, and some basics on web development and database. I plan to spend about 3 months to get the above skills. Meanwhile, keep watching the real best practical cases to get familar...

In this week our product has been pushed to version 0.6, and things are not fine. Many of our programmers don’t devote much time into it because of part-time working status. So we discuss about it and come up with some ways to solve it, including cash incentives and more real-time communication. It seems that we have to endure the...

A new journey begins. Fearlessly. Quit my job today, a descision made one month ago. And finnally the last day comes, I feel nothing much. Just go through the process. I had feeling about it two weeks ago. It was not good, though. The bad side of it started to create panic, when the time was nearly. But the conclusion...

Project A1 is my main project. However, I won’t devote too much time into it. Because I am one of the co-founders, not the big shot that has the full control and power. That’s why I must do my own project to be a soloprenuer as an indie hacker, and start my own business to open an online store. I...

It seems that things get stuck again. Unproductive these days. I’m aware of the fact that I’m still not focused. Too randomly and distracted by other tedious things, sometimes as a way of escaping from the most important but also difficult part. My focus: push the product online ontime. Indulge into learning courses to be a developer. large amount of...

Don’t procastinate anything you should do, including what you don’t want to do. My A1 project does not have much progress. To be frank, there is some tedious work that I don’t want to do. However, I must force myself to dive into it, instead of postponing it till the last minute. Damn! Getting on a startup is by no...

Things seem to be out of control the other days. I have thrown too much time into unimportant things. Enerny exhausted, but low productive. At least, the blog site comes to a final and stable point. No more big effort on the addjustments and decoration. Just writing. I must go back to a normal and healthy track. First of all,...

Nearly a week haven’t been posted. One reason is that I finally decide to build my own site, after the patience exhausted. The ghost site hosted on digital ocean is still unbeared slow, especially that several times I have to wait minutes to login the backend when the desire to write needs to be seized at the moment. I investigated...

Too much effort on importing such as reading books(essays, threads), listening podcasts, watching films etc., is imbalance. After a period you would doubt yourself if the effort is worth it because the result of it seems vague. Much of your effort runs off, and you may quit. Yes, the retention is more important than just import. And human memory is...

晚上花了将近3个小时时间去写一篇小红书，一个多小时用来写文字，剩下一个小时用来做图片和排版，中间改了又改，做了很多图片最后又没用上。 自认为是写的真实、有故事性、有文笔，也贴近热点，也遵照各种运营要点。 结果呢，到现在一小时过去，不到100个曝光，还不如随手发的一张图片。 表示有被伤到。 不过思考过后，还是有收获的，做之前的假设没有得到验证。 于是也迅速转变了策略： 短平快，不花过多时间，不写长文，不做精雕细琢； 主打真实性基础上的随意性，内容相对随意，形式随意； 内容：结构性； 另外，我觉得还是认认真真系统性地快速学习一门相关课程为好。 sdfa sdfa sdfa sadfa sd dfaw222sdfadsf select sss from sdfa 不要气馁，加油。 gem source -l # 查看所使用的源 # 添加新源，删掉旧源 gem source --add https://gems.ruby-china.com --remove https://rubygems.org

When you are posting something to attract traffic, you have to keep in mind the match between your post and the media. One of my tiny project(A3.1-3) is on xiaohongshu.com(小红书), a popular platform to share knowledge and life. I don’t pay much attention on it, and the data is poor, unsurprisingly. After posting more than 20 notes, the follower is...

Reading the book “Entrepreneur myths” these day, of which the facts and advices about entre are fucking so good. The author, Damir Perge, has funded more than 50million dollars to startups as an angel, and concluded 50 myths to destroy people’s illusion about what entrepreneur should be like. It helps me to make a real vision. But basically, I have...

After trying many hosts, I say to myself: OK, I give in. I go back to Digital Ocean, and pay more to upgrade the plan with more RAM. The former is $7/mo, the lowest. Now is $12/mo, nearly double. Actually what I get is RAM 1G goes to 2G. I hope it will make everything fine. No more cases that...

Well, I am back Sorry about the 10 day’s break. One of the reasons is that I get frustrated about Digital Ocean host. The website can’t be opened frequently because of high cpu usage. Having tried so many methods and spent much time, my patience is exhausted. Maybe the only way is to pay more money to upgrade to a...

10/1, the first day of october, less than 100 days of this year. It’s the National Day of China. And also a traditional long holiday. I took my family to Tsingdao City for a vacation. I drove the whole day, from 10 a.m. to 23 p.m. when arriving at the hotel. So tired. The city is famous for its beautiful...

Frustrated with my ghost host Digital Ocean I built this website on the host Digital Ocean about three weeks ago. I admit that the UI is great. However, the stability is week. Almost each day there would be several hours during which the website can’t be opened, showing time-over. And each time I spent much time investigating the reason and...

下沉年代的自我救赎：李佳琦言论有感/The redemption of ourself in a declining age This is a post that tried to be published in WeChat in the first place but failed. I don’t know why, just like so many other cases related to the freedom of speech. And I don’t know what they are fearing, just a normal article with no forbidden words at all. I’m...

Execution In a startup, idea is important. But execution weighs much more, especially in a rapid changing industry. When we talk about the ability of execution, we are mainly refering to the speed. Action fast, to accomplish the key results before others, and at a agile tempo. And when we talk about moving fast, we are mainly refering to being...

It feels good when you know what is the way A new week. As I said several days ago in the post “Bomb!Milestone”, I start a new period from this week. I accelerate the pace of my projects, and invest more time in it. I have no time to waste. So let’s rock. And I feel good when I’m on...

Not well… Today is not very well. Although sleep early last night and get up early this morning, still sleepy in the day. You know what? I take a little nap at 10 o’clock and 16 o’clock while working. And my stomach is not well either. I go to toilet twice, one in the morning, the other in the afternoon....

Learning from the past is the best lesson and asset Today is satuday. I drive to a tourist attraction with my family nearly whole day. In the morning before starting, I call my co-founder for some unsettled topics. I come back home after 18 p.m. and get exhausted. In the evening my energy is low and can’t concentrate on doing...

No one cares about you Anyone who wants to be somebody and make a difference, must remember that no one cares about you. So he/she can do things without much worries or paying too much attention to others’ comments. I totally agree with that, and this is what I learnt in my career these several years. Don’t let others’ opinion...

Bomb! Milestone Today one event happens, like a Bomb! And the situation evolves to a new period. I may not release what thing it is right now, may be a proper time in the future. Memorize today, a milestone. I believe there is a thing called destiny. Now mine comes.

Prerequisites for starting my own projects full time Get up at 8 a.m, it sucks. It must be that I go to bed at 23:30 and swipe the iPhone for about 20 minutes. That is the difficult part: sleep early, without any additional actions. Take a shower, go to bed, fall asleep, that’s it. No cellphone, no thinking, no watching...

Launch the my first content project(A3.2) Restart a WeChat public account that has been unused for about 2 years. Redesign the position, name and logo. I want to share my information and knowledge creation and process with those who are eager in information of high quality but have no access or don’t know how to manage info to create knowledge....

Up and down After my day work, I continue my investigation about indie hacker. What I got was almost all good things the other day. And this time I get something not that beautiful finally. I read an article written by a female indie hacker saying that she has been on this journey for 5 years after quiting job, and...

Monday I hate having to spend about 3 hours on communicating. Traffic jam are wasting my life, event if I try to make most use of it by reading ebooks or listening podcasts while driving. Today I write some articles articulating my planning. I want to devote much more time on action. Before going to bed, I come across some...

I think I am a creator I’ve read a lot articles about SaaS software development these at weekend. Refresh and solidify my previous knowledge on this issue. For example, the concept of SaaS has two facets: one is about delivery mode from one-time to subscription, the other is about the developing infrastructure lies in Cloud. And the usual stack in...

I make a Plan for content creation Eat too much at lunch. So I go downstairs for a walk. And I organize the thoughts these days about my writing project, i.e. creating content constantly and part of it would grow up to a business. 1_documenting myself daily Daily blog about my working progress, as well as stories on learning and...

Fake work and Real work Donald Trump is famous for his pet phrase “Fake News”. It reminds people be careful about the existence of a certain kind of news. Open your eye and think before believing in what you see and hear rushingly. Working has the same scenario. This weekend I haven’t finished what I’ve planned to do. Not due...

The match between content and media When you are posting something to attract traffic, you have to keep in mind the match between your post and the media. One of my tiny project(A3.1-3) is on xiaohongshu.com(小红书), a popular platform to share knowledge and life. I don’t pay much attention on it, and the data is poor, unsurprisingly. After posting more...

Plan for today and next few months_09/10/2023 Cut the crap. Time is limited and precious. Today(2023/09/10) : Come up with the V1.0 product proposal and discuss it with my co-founder. ## A1 Continue the research of SaaS software prerequisites, and expand the research of successful cases. Make a conclusion and decision. ## A2 Write some new articles updating to my...

Awareness In the self productivity realm, awareness is the first prerequisite. That means, you should keep conscious about who you are, what you are doing and what you are supposed to do. Each time I end the day with low productivity, I recall what happened. It always comes to mindless and useless action, such as swiping the phone, or reading...

Saturday 0909 Wake up at 6 a.m., work about 2 hours, and then drive to city with my family, spending whole day in a large shopping center with IKEA. Back home at nearly 10 p.m. Wake up at 6 a.m., work about 2 hours, and then drive to city with my family, spending whole day in a large shopping center...

Momentum is quite important, transmitting continuously a signal that you are on the right track and gaining confidence about the future success to come. My bad habit is playing pc game at weekend till midnight, and then the next several days would be low productive because of the sleepy and tired status, just like being fucked by a dog. And...

A research before coming up with an idea The first step is to come up with a feasible idea to start my own project. And to do that, I have to conduct a small research of some successful cases, especially those attract my attention these days. Today’s list includes: getcyberleads.com URL scanning service Paper website Paperform.com These products and business...

Considering to quit my comfortable, decent and well-paying job I have to admit the truth that my job is quite comfortable: working intensity and load is low, high profile, high degree of freedom, and payment is impressive. A typical day: driving to workplace and parking on my space. Go upstairs at about 10 a.m., and start doing today’s work unhurriedly....

I have been working for ten years in several large internet companies, witnessing so many kinds of projects up and down. To B or To C, internal or for market, supply or consume, user acquisition or revenue generation, advertising or natural traffic, marketing or technology, big data product/platform or backend/frontend function product, BI analysis or sales promotion… The list could...

这个Ghost Blog搭建的过程可谓是“命途多舛”，实在是一言难尽，后面写一篇讲述吧。 Anyway，总算搭建好了—— 这是一个什么站点？ 这是liwuqiong的个人网站，记录和分享我的工作、学习和生活。未来将用中文和English双语写作。 为什么搭建这个站点？ 主要还是要把写作践行到底，“笔耕不辍”。随着年岁增长，越发觉得写作已经超出简单的爱好，而是成为一种学习方式、工作方式和生活方式。从内心来说，只有在写作时，我更容易进入到专注的心流状态，更能感受到自我的存在，以及更能感受到知识正在被生产出来。 In a nutshell, I’m lovin’ it, and it makes me feel good. 换句话说，这次是当真了，take it seriously. 其次，是希望能够通过记录和分享自己的工作、生活、思考，来与感兴趣的人、需要帮助的人建立联系，如果在世界某个地方角落里存在的化。如果你读了我的文章内容，能有所启发，或者在某些方面提供了一些帮助，那么这个目的就是达到了，为此我也感到很开心。 为什么不只在其他地方写？ 现在提供写作的地方，实在是太多了。比如，本地的各类笔记、写作软件，比如公众号、小红书、substack、微博、Twitter等等。 我其实很多时候是在本地的软件上写，之前常用网易有道云笔记、notion，后来也有尝试用Ulysses，现在用的是Obsidian。本地软件会继续用，更多作为知识管理和平时的写作草稿。 线上软件方面，之前也一直在搜狐博客、网易博客、新浪博客、微博、知乎，持续在写。 几年前，自己也搭建过WordPress独立站。 最近几年，主要写作的地方，是在微信公众号。 但是这些地方最大的问题是，不自由。中国的言论管控，不在里面的人是不知道的，或者或多或少也有所耳闻。 我也不是极端的那种愤青恨国党。但总是不知道咋回事就被拒审发布，或者删除、屏蔽发布的文章，每次写的时候还要在构思的同时再分出一部分精力想这些话能不能说，实在是让人烦恼的事。 索性自己建一个清净的，能完全自主把控的地方。 写点想写的，最好是能对他人有价值帮助的东西，就这么简单。 想到就去写了，不用想之前那样还要想选题、构思、大纲、找素材，想想能不能写，怎么写，然后再找图、排版发布… 卸掉一切枷锁，回归纯粹的写作。 p.s. 还有一点好处，就是这里的写作，有着很高的自由度，暂时不用去管遣词造句，后面有需要时会再打磨。也不去管排版之类，随着熟练度的提高，这些后面应该会有更自动化的方案。 p.p.s. 微信公众号还有一个不方便的地方，就是写完后不能修改。 主要写些什么？ 国内的微信公众号仍然会继续写，可以认为是这里的一个子集。 这里将成为我个人的全部文章聚合的地方，内容不加限制，将反应我工作学习生活的方方面面。 但是也不意味着事无巨细流水账，没有这个必要，也没有价值。 这不是一本个人日记。 也不会完全放飞自我，全盘和出，卢梭的《忏悔录》那样赤裸裸地自我曝光和剖析的勇气，不知道我以后会不会有，至少现在还没有。 但可以保证的是，这里的写作内容，都是真实、真诚的，会有筛选，但筛选的原则是是否有价值，这个价值是指是否有信息量和是否有思考，不会端着、掩饰、粉饰什么。 这也是自己搭建独立网站的另一个好处。 主要写些什么？ 具体来说，目前能想到的，可能会包括：想做/在做的事情；学习笔记与心得；对于一些主题的思考和评论；成长与生活方面的一些感悟感想。 为什么用Ghost？ 几年前搭建过独立博客用的是WordPress，但最近得知这几年有一款新的Blog/CMS软件Ghost，功能体验更好，这次就一心想尝试下，这也是为什么搭建花了好多时间，建站环节确实没有WordPress方便快捷。 但建好后，确实体验比WordPress要好，是不同时代的产品：WordPress实在是太过臃肿。 不过还没用太习惯，编辑器功能太弱，以及有些普遍认为是基础的功能组件，居然都没有，查了下需要单独写代码来添加。但是我目前不想也不能花时间去折腾这些tricky。 自由度太高，也是有烦恼的。 担心流量和变现吗？ 不担心，或者说，现在担心也没有用。 这是一个长期主义的试验场，是一场马拉松的赛道。 因此，这个liwuqiong.com的域名，索性直接买了三年，看能不能先坚持三年再说。 现在要专注的，是如何持续把自己最大限度地还原到线上，作为一种工作学习方式，实现特定的目标；作为一种生活方式，打开自我，监督自我，实现真正地成长。 所以流量与变现是次要的，但并没有到“只是写想写的，有没有人看无所谓”的程度。...