Reading notes on 'Peak': refuting the idea of innate genius and the simplistic ten-thousand-hour rule, summarizing a training method built on four elements — goals, focus, feedback, and stepping out of the comfort zone. See the body for more detail and examples.
Reflections on the biography 'Steve Jobs': exploring obsession versus collective wisdom, the techniques of a world-class marketing master, and how different readers come away with their own personal takeaways. See the full text for details and examples.
Notes on Li Shanyou's 'Cognitive Revolution' course: a walkthrough of core theories such as first principles, inductive and deductive thinking, discontinuity, and scientific revolution, along with personal interpretations. See the body for more detail and examples.
A guide to a self-guided tour around Taiwan: handling the travel permit endorsement and entry permit, planning a half-island route, attractions in Kenting and Hualien, and tips for booking transport and flights—more details and examples in the article.
A short talk on job-hopping: analyzing the essence and trade-offs of changing jobs across dimensions such as salary, future career and company prospects, and family changes, drawing on two classic reasons for discussion. See the body for more detail and examples.
Notes on getting started with Scala: the interpreter, val/var variables, functions and the Unit type, the foreach syntactic sugar, arrays, side effects, and other fundamental syntax points.
Overview of the Scala language: a statically typed JVM language that blends object-oriented and functional programming, introducing the Actor concurrency model along with its intellectual origins and design characteristics. See the full text for details and examples.
A rant about GoDaddy deleting my personal hosting and wiping out five years of blog posts: a strong condemnation of their lack of accountability, plus a suggestion to build your own blog on Alibaba Cloud instead. See the full post for details and examples.
A hands-on guide to scaling ZooKeeper across data centers in the same city: expanding a single-DC three-node cluster into a 2-2-1 layout, adding nodes step by step, retiring the old ones, and controlling the risk of leader changes.