Category: 4. Live Less Bad
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Digital Abundance
More and more people are talking about the need to protect physical media. Buy real books. Keep your CDs and LPs. Print your photos. Do not let everything become digital. Do not let AI, platforms, and data centres swallow everything. The worry is not only that companies may take our things away. It is also…
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The Answer, So Far, At 50
I don’t believe in any earthly religion, because they all tend to yearn for premature certainty. I also find it very difficult to accept that there are personal gods who have our individual best interests in mind, and that when things don’t appear to act in our best interest, we revert back to some grand,…
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My first EV (I love you)
Since May 2025, when I first began looking into cars before our move to the UK, I had my eyes on the i3. This was very typical of me—I was attracted to something quite impractical, a bit off, and irrational. I was like this with my first car, when I chose the Golf Cabriolet. It…
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On the Eve of Fundraising Gala 2026
I re-read what I wrote after last year’s concert. This time around, I am not in HK to attend it. Nor is there, so it is going to be good. But so much has happened, and I have hardly had the time or focus to write about everything. The school feels like it’s crumbling. It’s…
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Bad Service & Maintenance
There are two books I want to read: Bad Services: How to Fix Services That Don’t Work by Lou Downe and Maintenance of Everything: Part One by Stewart Brand. Just thinking about reading these books makes me feel less anxious. I realise that my anxiety often comes from wanting things not to fail. I want…
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AI Gods; AI Counseling
A few things to spit out: LLM vs RL RL (Reinforcement Learning) is a kind of AI training framework that focuses on learning through trial and error to maximize a reward, while LLMs focus on understanding and generating human-like text based on statistical prediction of the next token in a sequence. LLMs are large-scale models…
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Routine, Mar 2026
My current routine, after 6 months in the UK 5:45am – 7:20am:Wake upWalk honeyCook breakfast & lunchHang laundryTake out dishes 7:20am – 8:20am:School runs 8:45am – 2:00pm:Gym, calls, work 2:00pm – 2:45pm:Lunch 2:45 – 4:30pm:School run 4:30pm – 7:00pm:Cook, dinner, fold laundry 7:00pm – 8:00pm:Break~ 8:00pm – 10:00pm:Final School run, wind down Weekends: Sat: 5:45…
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A Proper Goodbye
Last time we left Hong Kong, we left in a hurry. No pause. No proper goodbye. So here it is. A proper goodbye to my home, Hong Kong. I miss the cheap, safe convenience. I miss the MTR. The buses. The walking. The need of no driving. Not the taxis so much. I miss the…
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2025 On Dec 31st
2025: A year of transition. A year of reckoning. A year where we kept restarting before we could finish. In Jan, I wrapped up my time at Casetify. I rejoined the corporate world in 2024 because the opportunity was intriguing. But 12 months back inside a company forced a tough self realization: what actually matters…
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2025 in Life
2025 was the transition year, or the watershed year. Looking at it through the woo-woo 7-year-cycle lens, 2025 was the end of the 7th cycle and the start of the 8th cycle. So if this 7-year thingy is legit, 2025 was a significant year. And it was. I left Casetify in January and returned to…