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The Art of Buying a Toaster
Someone clicks Buy on a shop website. Half a continent away, in a small office building, two roommates argue briefly and then ship a toaster. This is a story about what actually happened.
What a Switch Actually Does
I tried to set up Portainer behind a Cloudflare tunnel. The thing that broke wasn't the tool — it was every shortcut I'd taken to avoid actually learning how networking works.
Confucius and the Book of Changes: From Fortune-Telling Fiasco to Thinking Toolkit
How a modern skeptic, turned off by fortune-telling scams, found new respect for the I Ching thanks to one remark from Confucius
Reading as a Mirror: Why Books Change Lives — and How Framing Shapes Everything You Feel
The same book can save one person's life and bore another to tears. Why? Because you don't read books — you read yourself through them. And the mechanism behind that reveals something deeper: the only way to change how you feel is to change how you see.
When Hustle Loses Its 'Why' — The Ordinary World and the Crisis of Meaning
A novel that moved millions made me realize a deeper problem: when we say 'keep fighting,' do we actually know what for? From emotional comfort to philosophical foundations, a journey into the roots of meaning.
Where Meaning and Value Come From — When Logic Starts Questioning Itself
We spend lifetimes asking 'what's the meaning of life' but rarely ask where 'meaning' itself comes from. From evolutionary cognition to social needs, a dismantling of humanity's most fundamental concepts.
Temporal Time-Skipping: The Clock You Didn't Know Existed
How Temporal's time-skipping test server works, why it broke my workflow tests, and the mental model that finally made it click.
Sea Level: Why No One Person Controls the Direction of Society
A first-principles look at power, collective will, and why the ocean is the best metaphor for how human societies actually move.
