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Trip to Aomori (青森)

We just had an amazing 10-day deep dive into the Aomori prefecture of Japan. It’s my 4th time in Japan and my wife’s 8th (maybe 9th?), and we know we will be back many more times, so we are fortunate to be able to stay in a less touristy region for a longer time. Aomori prefecture’s biggest city is the same-named Aomori city. It’s an agriculturally rich area famous for its apples, rice, seafood,…

Using Claude Code with Obsidian - A Perfect Pairing for Knowledge Work

How Claude Code transforms the Obsidian note-taking experience through intelligent automation and natural language workflows

Photos from trip to Asia

Taiwan Cute foo dog in from of the 大稻埕慈聖宮, there is a pork trotter noodle shop that’s incredibly dilicious and nofrill.

Reflection on finding a new job after failed at being a founder

After a failed attempt to start a company, I was, for the 4th time, active in the job market with 8.5 years of experience under my belt. The search took 5 weeks, during which I chatted with 18 companies, received 3 offers, 3 rejections, was ghosted by 1, and withdrew from the rest at various stages. In terms of outcome, I’ll be joining Anthropic to be a founding member of its Claude Growth team.

Retro on my first founding attempt

In January 2024, I quit my job at Abnormal Security and co-founded a startup as CTO. Having worked on it for a year, I left the company in Jan 2025. In this post, I’m not going to mention names and specifics, given that as of writing, the company and the product still exist, being operated by one of the cofounders. (Obviously those who are curious can easily trace to the specifics.)

DeepSeek R1发布一个月后的想法

DeepSeek R1发布快一个月了,各方观点都发表的差不多了,写写我的想法

Photo - Mina Perhonen Kyoto (皆川明京都)

皆川明在京都的旗舰店坐落在一个很有历史感的建筑里面,我站在里面有一种非常熟悉的感 觉。想起来跟大连的一些日本建筑有类似的调性,好像一下穿越到了大连中山医院那些长长 的走廊和楼梯间里。