The Paradox of Choice
Why More is Less / Barry Schwartz
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The idea of a Now page is to tell you about what I am doing now. Last update: 2026-02-27 Seattle, WA Self-Compassion Learning self-compassion and shame through this video. I feel I’ve cried more in 2026 than in all years of my life before this. Graduated! Finished my master’s degree and soon will start to work. Going back home to take a break. 1.5 years is not long but also not short,…
Overcome nervousness revisited
I have to face it
Raft: Leader Election
Feb. 2024
When breath becomes air
Paui Kalanithi
Distributed MapReduce
Feb. 2024
Fast Fourier Transform on CPU and GPU
Feb. 2025 - Jun. 2025
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Inquiry into Values / Robert M. Pirsig
Farewell letter
What did I learn during my summer internship?
You Can Negotiate Everything
How to get anything you want / Herb Cohen
If it's the right thing, then go for it
What do you mean “right”?
The Mom Test
How to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you / Rob Fitzpatrick
Reflection #7
Seattle: 0y1m
Nexus
A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI / Yuval Noah Harari
The art of asking questions
Simple to learn, hard to do
The Story of Philosophy
Will Durant
What I learned from renting?
It’s a long story
Is the amount of worry we have always the same?
If yes, so what?
Reflection #6
Talks, New Look, and Anxiety
What to do when you feel stuck
Go to gym (mentally)
What is a good opportunity?
Why I went to Sweden?
Reflection #5
Spring break!
How to overcome fear of success
Just do it?
Reflection #4
Schopenhauer, Mandarin, and thinking
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Timeline 2001: born in Taipei, Taiwan 2019: moved to Hsinchu, Taiwan to study Computer Science at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University 2020: started writing on Medium 2022: interned at NVIDIA Taiwan, worked on GPU boot firmware testing 2023: studied abroad in Gothenburg, Sweden, as an exchange program at Chalmers tekniska högskola , traveled to over 10 European countries ( Why? ) 2024: started…
Reflection #3
It had been three weeks into the semester.
Why Nations Fail
The origins of power, prosperity, and poverty / Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
Reflection #2
Wraping up of my second semester’s life and traveling to New York during fall break.
How to overcome nervousness
Does this count as lying to yourself?
The Psychology of Money
Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness / Morgan Housel
Reflection #1
Wraping up of my first half semester staying in the U.S.
Hell Yeah or No
What does it mean?
How Emotions are Made
The Secret Life of the Brain / Lisa Feldman Barrett
Numbers Don't Lie
71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World / Vaclav Smil
Debug message is important
I spent 3 weeks to find a bug.
Imagined Communities
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism / Benedict Anderson
Give and Take
Why helping others drives our success / Adam Grant
Influence
The Psychology of Persuasion / Robert B. Cialdini