Miscellanies

I’ve shared this on Twitter before, but I’m archiving it here on the blog as a reminder. This is something I’ve been practicing consistently....

I recently acquired imzl.com, fulfilling my “dream” of owning a decent-looking .com domain. It now serves as my blog’s primary domain,...

What Does It Mean to Be Wealthy? Distinguishing between “truly wealthy” and “pretending to be wealthy” is important. At minimum,...

I once pondered a question: isn’t chemistry essentially “alchemy,” and isn’t physics essentially “the laws of the Dao”? If our textbooks had been...

These past few days, my WeChat Moments feed has been flooded again. The story that went viral was written by a young man named Niko,...

Ever since Xianguo announced the shutdown of its RSS subscription service the other day, people have been saying RSS is dead once again....

Lately, an anonymous app called “Secret” has been all the rage in my social circles....

A while back, I saw a Delicious Chinese giveaway post on Weibo. The deal was simple: repost it,...

Personally, I believe IT should be simple, yet the industry has made it seem overly complex....

Life, it turns out, is something to be carved. Time and reality — two gleaming, razor-sharp blades — cut away life’s excess, piece by piece,...