Category: 4. Live Less Bad
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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…
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After A Week Of Reflection
Last week the school organized a biography session for everyone to go through the biography of the school. It was a very valuable experience for the school and for those who participated. I also had many reflections and realizations. I have gained clarity. Sometimes I think I give myself too much credit for my successes.…
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All You Have Is Money.
“You’re so poor. All you have is money.” – Kara Swisher These days my focus is less sharp. Most of the time I am spending time driving my kids to school, getting our home set up, and cooking meals. Every now and then I supported our school. Compared to when I was working for Casetify…
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UK – 37 Days
I don’t want to reread this and re-experience all the internal whining. True to how reality always unfolds, things are moving forward. We’re in our new place now. It’s nice, spacious, comfortable, and quiet. I enjoy spending time in the kitchen. The rest of the space still feels wasted, though. There’s so much room, and…
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UK – Day 19
We finally got our place. It’s well taken care of, though a bit far from civilization. I don’t love the location, but I do like the place, and Sharon likes it too. We’ll need to furnish it. I used to love that process. Not anymore. A lot of that has to do with accepting that…