every time i record i feel like the world's worst presenter. and after I record I'm so worried about what I've done that i think I should re-record it idk, occasionally the footage turns out actually bad. Usually they are not that bad not sure what to do about this 🥲

It's not an exaggeration — Chinese is just amazing!!! Listen to this poem where almost every word is pronounced "yu" (of course with different tones and meanings), yet it still tells a detailed and vivid story: 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Yu Yu wanted to go fishing. He came to my house and found

"Everything is unprecedented unless you know a little bit of history."

You cannot make discoveries in the known (by definition)

Confidence is being comfortable showing your flaws.

"Stress doesn't come from hard work. Stress primarily comes from not taking actions on something that you can have some control over. Stress comes from ignoring things that you shouldn't be ignoring."

"This futile game has no solution", a quote from the movie "100 Meters". It makes me think of a connection with the hedonic treadmill, even though that's not what the movie's context was pointing to. What do you think?

How does one balance between knowing about the world (watching news/current events) with being distracted by the world (being distracted by news/current events).

"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential." - Bruce Lee

Cynicism is self-fulfilling.

Wow I need to get off social media

This age of aggressive distraction requires aggressive focus

"The future is unevenly distributed."

"We are over-consuming novelty and under-consuming purpose" - Balaji

"if you haven't built, you feel guilt"

Louis Zhao has produced an excellent video essay inspired by my "AILOM" concept. Watch the Youtube video below.