Ideas Dump

November 9, 20252 min read

When ideas are manifested, they should be written down and not judged. Ideas should only be judged after they are written down. Optimise for quantity and quantity only. 1. ... O...

Profit driven Imperfect Product Makerthon

November 9, 20251 min read

I will be attempting to build N profit making products. Stages 1. Thesis 1 hour to build and sell a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Create 30X MVPs or whenever a single MVP has gai...

Screenshot API Monitor

November 9, 20253 min read

One Liner "Alerts you when your website looks broken to users, even if your API says everything's fine." Validation Steps (4 Hours Total) Hour 1: Community Research Goal: Find 1...

7 Chapters of Baby Star

November 8, 20253 min read

I stem on the two side walls of Baby Star, trying to rehearse the sequence. If this route were a product, it would never pass a UX review. It's covered in thick moss, the key ho...

Reed's Pinnacle Direct

November 1, 20257 min read

Yosemite Day 3 – 27 Oct 25 David was a 50 plus year old teacher at a technical school in Montpellier, France. He just came down from El Capitan and was looking for some chill cl...

Experimental note

October 30, 20251 min read

I started this blog as a space to express myself without restrictions To write Without caring about perfection, making sense To be in a state of flow With words

Purpose

October 30, 20251 min read

Do we have a purpose? Does having a purpose matter? What is purpose? Purpose may be stuffing my hands in thin cracks, slithering up fridge size off widths, crimping as hard as I...

Valley cracks

October 30, 20251 min read

Hand jam Foot jam Ankles twisted Knuckles sore Yet, I feel alive

Yosemite Day 1 2

October 30, 20253 min read

25 26 Oct 25 I was in Yosemite for 5 days. With no doubt, it's the Mecca of climbing. Day 1 – Top rope at Swan Slab This is my first time setting up top rope anchor on Trad gear...

Train ride

October 21, 20251 min read

1 hour to Taipei Looking forward to touching rocks or leaving boredom Opened up a book Missed my stop Now moving back

Fixing the awkward margin in Obsidian Publish

October 20, 20251 min read

The default Obsidian publish theme, has a weird margin for root docs (docs not in subfolders) on the sidebar. You see it? There's an extra left margin at hey 👋 . To fix this, s...

Doing good

October 19, 20251 min read

A recent conversation with a friend got me thinking. I haven't been doing good. Or rather, I haven't intentionally been. Doing good is part of being human, part of being me. I w...

Trad climbing anchors

October 19, 20252 min read

Principles SERENE S olid E qualized R edundant E fficient N o E xtension If one placement fails, system shouldn't shock load remaining pieces Anchor Types 1. Sliding X Advantage...

Acceptance

September 22, 20211 min read

Hello difficult emotions

Passion

October 29, 20201 min read

It's a heavy word. "Follow your passion and do what you love!" We hear this all the time. For years, I thought, passion is a magical fairytale, where every challenge feels so sa...

If this life is heaven,

August 30, 20201 min read

I don't worry about tomorrow, for heaven is perfect, and every moment is bliss. If this life is heaven, I don't worry about dying, for heaven is eternal, and death is a construc...

Truth

August 29, 20201 min read

Truth is like an anchor; we hold on, so we don't get swept away. Truth is like a cage; we lock ourselves in, so we can't be free.

Bubbles

July 18, 20201 min read

The Stone

May 25, 20201 min read

He sits on a large stone. Gazing into the sky. Breathing in. Breathing out. Coming face to face with his suffering. Opening the window of joy.

Chasing Numbers

May 5, 20201 min read

He lives in a growth machine. Aiming for good grades in school. Working hard to earn that extra buck. Thinking of ways to make people spend more. The world revolves around cost...

Dream Again

March 28, 20201 min read

The same pitch back sky...

Fascinating Flour

December 1, 20191 min read

Form Exploration

November 29, 20191 min read

Why I Code?

August 4, 20192 min read

For the past 1 year, I have been spending everyday in front on my computer churning out lines of code.

My NS Story

December 16, 20188 min read

7th January 2017. I sat in a lounge chair in the library, waiting eagerly for my NS journey to start...

Morning Commute

December 3, 20181 min read

First day of work...

Do you agree NS is necessary?

January 21, 20182 min read

NS is not necessary if we are as humans a little more developed...

Last day in Japan

December 23, 20177 min read

Today will be one of the more exciting days as I'm prepared to head for the airport via hitchhiking...

Nothing.

May 14, 201713 min read

At this point in time, I'm sitting in the patient's lounge in the hospital, wondering about the weird, illogical turn of events that got me here...

Who am I?

December 18, 20161 min read

Flickering lights. Groaning stomach. I drifted from block to block like an intoxicated ghost...

Her.

June 19, 20163 min read

She passed away." It has happened...

Light

June 13, 20162 min read

Columns of white light penetrate every nook and cranny of our city. Our world is a world devoid of darkness...

The School at Night

March 13, 20163 min read

It's dark. I'm alone again...

Doing Beautiful Things

January 26, 20162 min read

I remember. 10 months ago. I decided that I want to do something...

Because You Are A Guy

January 20, 20163 min read

"陈小明同学写的字很漂亮" "像女孩子写的一样" I blushed. I walked up to collect my Chinese comprehension worksheet. The lady teacher gave me an affirmative smile. I took the flimsy piece of paper an...