Reflections on "Peak"
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...
Reflections on "Steve Jobs"
Reflections on the biography 'Steve Jobs': exploring obsession versus collective wisdom, the techniques of a world-class marketing master, and how different...
Reflections on the Cognitive Revolution
Notes on Li Shanyou's 'Cognitive Revolution' course: a walkthrough of core theories such as first principles, inductive and deductive thinking,...
A Self-Guided Tour Around Taiwan
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...
A Short Talk on Job-Hopping
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,...
Getting Started with Scala
Notes on getting started with Scala: the interpreter, val/var variables, functions and the Unit type, the foreach syntactic sugar, arrays, side effects, and...
Scala Overview
Overview of the Scala language: a statically typed JVM language that blends object-oriented and functional programming, introducing the Actor concurrency...
Complaining About GoDaddy
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...
Scaling Out ZooKeeper
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...