闪念

看到 Minja 这篇文章（在家门口挂一块白板，作为思维卸货区），里面有张配图：

或许以后家里可以放一个，当家庭民主墙，Polly 可以随时拿起笔在上面写自己的想法、愿望。

蔡志浩:

我在台南搭過 19 條公車路線，已經看過好多次輪椅乘客上下車了。有的是有照顧者的，但更多是單獨移動。司機協助都很專業。其他乘客也沒有任何不耐。甚至必要時也會出手協助。

在大陆很少在公车上看到轮椅乘客。

郝海龙：

三千多个单词意味着什么呢？

我们来对比一下母语使用者的情况，Word Counter 网站上这篇文章 How Many Words Does the Average Person Know? 列出了一些研究给出的统计数据，以 TestYourVocab.com 的数据为例，成年母语使用者的词汇量大约在 20000–35000 之间，而一个八岁小孩平均能认识 10000 单词。

不妨拿我们自己的母语做类比，如果把四千汉字作为成年中国人认识的汉字数量基准，你的三千英语词汇量，对应到中文相当于只认识 600 多个汉字，以这个识字数量，拿起一本中文书，除了想睡觉，你还会有什么感觉？这个类比稍显粗暴，但至少说明，三千单词是远远不够用的。

The Economist:

In a separate post, though, comes a surprising fact: the reading of fiction specifically is as important as reading generally. People who read “lots” and fiction “lots” outscore those who read “lots” but fiction only “somewhat” or “not much”. This is because a wider range of vocabulary is typically used in fiction than in non-fiction writing.

不要给自己的英语词汇量设限。多读 fiction 作品。

Shelley (via 李如一):

What he told me has stayed with me all these years (I’m now a grandma): Wait as long as you can to introduce your daughter to computers, he said. Let her splash in puddles, make mud pies, and hug stuffed animals. The computer can wait. Her toddler years are short. I followed his advice. I’m glad I did.

和 Polly 在一起，不看手机和电脑，是道德义务。

蔡志浩：善意的接力：當我們一起跨越障礙

帮助他人、传递善意是随时随地都可以做的事。

Tyler Cowen:

One reason I do not love AI writing, or even AI-assisted writing

Of course I read to absorb the content, but I also am in a position to meet many authors, have contact with them, and spend time with them. So reading anything also is a potential option on those future connections. But when I am reading an AI piece, the value of that option comes pretty close to zero.

blog 就是你家的花园，要时常整理。

徐贲:

学术共同体真正应当追究的是责任（responsibility），而不是来源（origin）。因为来源从来都是混合的，而责任必须是明确的。

老婆请我去东莞本地一家西餐厅 Pauly’s Kitchen 吃饭。Fine dining。Starter 蜜瓜配火腿味道很特别。德国白啤 Paulaner 好喝！烤鸡不错，牛排一般。旁边座位有一对老年夫妻，男的好像是新加坡人，女的应该是本地人。还有几个外国人。

吃完饭去一家进口商品店 Corner’s Deli 逛下，刚好是他们 20 周年庆。买了个哈萨克斯坦雪糕，奶味很足，一个 M&M’s 冰淇淋，太甜了，不推荐。

Focus is saying no. 在这个信息爆炸的时代更是如此。

收纳好不好，有一个黄金判断准则：能否闭着眼睛找到要找的东西。

讨厌吃得很饱，对抗饥饿感是我的日常禅修。

多用电脑，电脑有实体键盘，方便输入，让你不是被动接受信息，而是要主动输出自己的想法。

发现手指运动方式对打字速度提升挺大，键盘键位是从左上到右下倾斜的，手指运动方向也要顺着倾斜，打字会快些。

你的生活没有复杂到要把任务进行复杂的分类，简单的纯文本就是最简单好用的工具。

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This is a test post to verify the publication workflow.

If you are seeing this, it means:

1. We created the file.
2. We set draft: false.
3. We pushed to GitHub.
4. Cloudflare deployed it automatically!

四象限等任务管理理论为何被扭曲：

多数开发商和生产力网红的错误（或诡计），就在于将分析性工具本体化为某种可能的、而且相对是理想的结果，然后以此为前提设计种种任务管理工作流。

最近实践每天晚上清空微信消息，本来是想抵抗微信，但意外有个好处：或许是因为想到第二天消息就消失了，所以当天就会回复和处理完事情，治好了我的拖延症。没有终点，也就没有动力去做，事情也就会无限拖延。

毕业了，还能用学校的远程登陆学校的文献资源系统，good.

做 Presentation 的前置准备：

• 演讲稿、可编辑文本
• 图片/icon
• 视频/音频

AFTER A WHILE

After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,

And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning And company doesn’t mean security,

And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts And presents aren’t promises

And you begin to accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open,

With the grace of a woman, Not the grief of a child

And you learn to build all your roads on today, Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.

After a while you learn that even sunshine Burns if you get too much

So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers

And you learn that you really can endure… that you really are strong and you really do have worth, and you learn and learn… With every goodbye you learn.

– Veronica Shoffstall

放下 Apple Watch，放弃一种叙事

根据自我决定论，选择背后的动机可能是内在（intrinsic）的，即活动本身令人感到有趣和满足；也可能是外在（extrinsic）的，即活动是为了实现特定的外在目标。按照这种分类，一般人都不会对锻炼产生太强的内在动机；躺着不动和大快朵颐才是最符合生物本能的选择。

以我为例，我清醒地知道自己在任何意义上都不「喜欢」运动。哪怕戴着 Apple Watch 打卡了两千多天，我还是经常需要经历运动前的「天人交战」和心理建设，还是不时会因为没能克服懒惰或恐惧、错过早上的黄金时间而自责。

学校竟然出了统一视觉标识，方便做简报。

Platy Hsu:

微信支持备份聊天记录了 然而对一个每天清空的人来说毫无用处。

好方法！

Minja:

我认为，记录灵感不适合采用任务管理工具，Drafs 或者备忘录这样可以随便输入、删除的工具更适合。灵感到任务有一个整理的过程，对待清单要有更严肃的态度，写上去的东西需是「最终版」。我的流程是：一切文字相关的内容，先记在 Drafts、nvALT 或纸上，再梳理出可执行的任务来。

Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld.:

The internet is a place crowded with uncanny entities and enchantments. Sometimes these enchantments reach back into our physical world. If we hope to travel wisely, the old instructions still apply: mark the threshold, remember that time moves differently there and know that every gift from the otherworld carries a price.

Platy’s about:

I hold it sacred that the mind must maintain ultimate control over emotions and the body. Thus, I’m viscerally against anything that may risk surrendering such control, be it an act, an idea, or a substance.

I’m the total contrary.

Pointing and calling:

Pointing and calling requires co-action and co-reaction among the operator’s brain, eyes, hands, mouth, and ears.

Apply it to life: when leaving home, point at keys, phone, wallet and say, “Keys, phone, wallet with me.”

Feels silly but usefull. The Japanese safety people basically discovered a polite way to weaponize silliness against human error.

“Please Keep Caring.” What John McPhee Taught Generations of Writers and Journalists:

Once, when I used a subject’s name four times in the span of two sentences, McPhee wrote, “Listen to the character’s name thudding like horseshoes. Vary it. Use pronouns here and there.”

Writing is not just about grammar, it’s also about sound.

Keynote 使用技巧

• Command + 拖动：临时关闭吸附/对齐参考线，自由移动对象
• Option + 拖动：在拖动的同时复制对象，相当于快捷版的「复制 + 粘贴 + 拖到新位置」
• Option + 拖拉控制点：从中心点开始等距放大/缩小对象
• Option + Shift + 拖拉控制点：在以上基础上再等比例缩放

我在 ChatGPT Atlas 的搜索框输入我想查询的内容，打字过程中输入栏下面会有一些 suggested links，预览文字是中文，有个 Reddit 帖子，我点进去一开始句子读着还挺通顺，但里面描述的内容感觉不太像是中国人写的，看到上方有个 see original，原来原帖是英文帖子，我看到的是中文网页翻译。

这是链接：

https://www.reddit.com/.../waking_up_early_every_day_is_killing_me/?tl=zh-hans

链接末尾的参数：

?tl=zh-hans

可以理解为：

• tl：translation language，目标翻译语言
• zh-Hans：简体中文

香港这次火灾，我发现内地媒体报道不会报道失踪人数。

孙悦 @中国新闻网 (via 澎湃新闻）

截至11月28日上午6时，香港宏福苑火警共造成94人死亡，当中一名死者为消防员。另由消防处处理的伤者共有76人，包括11名消防员。

Anki 里，选择记忆程度，除了 Again / Hard / Good / Easy 四个按钮外，也可以按空格（和 Good 一样）。

52 × 4 = 208

I hate WeChat…

Recommend this Apple Developer video talking about writing in UI, which provides useful advice.

• remove fillers
• avoid repetition
• lead with the why
• Make a word list

iCloud 突然不知道什么原因把网盘里的内容下载到本地，电脑内存几乎要被占满了。如何删除本地副本而不删除网盘里的文件？

不要直接删除：

~/Library/Mobile Documents/

这里是 iCloud Drive 的本地同步目录。直接删除其中的正常同步文件，相当于在 iCloud Drive 中删除文件，可能同步影响 iCloud 及其他设备。

应当在 Finder 中操作：

1. 打开 Finder → iCloud Drive。
2. 选中已经下载到本地的文件或文件夹。
3. 右键或按住 Control 单击。
4. 选择 Remove Download（移除下载项）。

这样只会删除本地完整副本，文件仍保留在 iCloud 中；Finder 中通常会留下文件名和云朵下载图标。以后打开该文件时，系统会再次从 iCloud 下载。(Apple Support)

中国外交官的表现，让为自己是中国人的身份感到很羞耻，做人还是要讲体面的。

Microblog 突然需要付费才能使用了。他们推出了 Micro.one，一个月只要 $1，但我目前没有国际信用卡，暂且充值不了，又回来使用这个 Wordpress 网站了。

长话短说是个好习惯

世界苦茶这期谈中国人的民意，提到一类人真是太好笑了，和我爸简直一模一样。他们完全知道日本是安全的，也知道到国家在撒谎，但是愿意配合国家表演，“国家怎么做一定有其他的考虑”。

Treat ChatGPT as a personal assistant to help you come up with ideas and write. You have to do the factcheck and revising work.

The front covers of The Type’s every issue are well designed.

Keynote 是很好的做图和动画工具，可以把 The Type 的封面图还原。

来传纸条吧. Interesting, want to buy one and do some experiments.

One of my goals for learning HTML and CSS is to make my website supportive of vertical text layout for Chinese.

装修日志之二 - KAIX.IN:

师傅的话，怎能只用耳朵听呢，眼观心随，师傅不必开口妳就能听到；等到师傅不说话，小工大概就能出师了吧。

My recent method of finding new music: go to White Noise Records’s website and choose an album.

Recently, there have been many discussions about ChatGPT on Weibo. And many people from different fields do experiments with it. Actually, ChatGPT was released in the winter of last year. In English media, there have already been many discussions since last year. I used ChatGPT to assist me writing some English exam essays last English. You can discover new and innovative things happen first from English media.

Be responsible for your own life. Others’ suggestions are just suggestions. You live your own life.

誰又騎著那鹿車飛過
忘掉投下那禮物給我
凝視那燈飾 只有今晚最光最亮
卻照亮我的寂寞

誰又能善心親一親我
由唇上來驗證我幸福過
頭上那飄雪
想要棲息我肩膊上
到最後也別去麼

Merry Merry Christmas
Lonely Lonely Christmas
人浪中想真心告白
但妳只想聽聽笑話

Lonely Lonely Christmas
Merry Merry Christmas
明日燈飾必須拆下
換到歡呼聲不過一剎

Lonely Christmas（李峻一 词）

CSS 和 HTML 配合好。

看完了《Head First HTML 与 CSS》（第二版）前 6 章，入门了 HTML，感觉现在的笔记和知识管理软件里把知识结构化和联系在一起的思路都来源于 HTML。

8% of the year, 34% of the first quarter has passed.

今天跑步，跟着亚瑟士的 APP 里的训练计划，练习了 10 分钟，虽然时间短，但强度比平时高，感觉更有收获，看来锻炼还是要适当提高些强度才有用。

看书，我习惯同时拿到纸质版和电子版，纸书适合看书，电子版适合做笔记。

学到两个新的英文短语：art-washing, willful ignorance

Ian Johnson (1, 2):

Art-washing the troubles Xinjiang: that’s the only conclusion I can reach after looking at these exoticistic photos and reading the apologetic text. The level of willful ignorance on the part of @PhotoLondonFair is stunning.

I predict the magazine will be pulled in a few weeks. It’s not acceptable to ignore the reality on the ground and pretend that because it’s “art” (if one can call these cliched images art) that it’s exempt from normal standards of decency and responsibility.

Omnifocus 和 Calendar 配合着用。Omnifocus 记录 actions，Calendar 记录 events。

The One Thing You Need To Understand About Learning Mandarin To Get To A Truly “Advanced” Level | Andrew Methven:

here was one thing that took me ages to grasp about the Chinese language which eventually changed how I thought about it, and how I learned it.

Once I grasped that, I could finally break through to an advanced level.

That one thing is: Chinese is a “high context” language.

That means communication is based on signals, tone, and understanding the “unspoken” context. Whereas in English, which is a low context language, communication is more straightforward.

So in learning Chinese, you need to know more context to really understand what’s going on, and use that context in how you learn and remember because everything is so alien.

Using context in learning language is about making more mental connections. It’s not just about learning words; It’s how to use context and stories to help you understand, remember and use language.

不要把自己放到受害者的角色，这样会让自己失去力量，保持自己的注意力方向，正面反击。

Daring Fireball 的收入来源主要靠每周广告收入。如 John Gruber 自己所说，「They’ve succeeded, I think, because they make everyone happy. 」，Daring Fireball 里的广告是我唯一觉得不反感的广告。

David Frum 做了些测试，看不到关注人发的 tweets，John Gruber 的 Twitter 账号收不到 mentions 了。另外，John Gruber 说，更糟的是，你可能意识不到大部份东西已经 missing：

It’s worse than that, though, because if you were delivered a newspaper with random stories scissored out, you’d know that there were missing stories. You wouldn’t know what they were, but you’d see the gaping holes in the paper. With Twitter now, there’s no indication that you’re missing tweets — let alone a huge number of tweets. 

想到微信的内容审查，你发给别人的一些内容显示在你这边的对话框里，你以为已经发给别人了，可是他们却没收到。

More：

Twitter 付不起房租。

Daring Fireball: HomePod Lives:

The top priority for the original HomePod was its audio quality. The top priority for the new 2nd-generation HomePod remains audio quality. It’s a home theater component first, and a voice assistant second. And I continue to believe that the true HomePod experience costs $600, with a pair of them. I’ve got paired OG HomePods in both my kitchen and living room, and they sound way more than twice as good as a stereo pair than a single HomePod. Last week I got a hands-on experience with the new 2nd-generation HomePods, and the same thing is true: one of them sounds surprisingly good for its size and price, but two of them paired together sound way more than twice as good.

昨天去了旧天堂书店，里面用两个音响放着音乐，好的音响听音乐果然不一样，新的 HomePod 回归，想买两个配对使用。

还完花呗，还负债 3367.44，人生 24 岁……也好，重新拾起记账的习惯了，好好存钱。

信息消费——从入门到放弃 - Neverland:

全面地改变获取信息的方式，原本并不在我的计划之中。上面提到的变化尽管集中发生在去年，却不是有规划地完成的，而是非常随机、零散的过程。然而，站在一年末尾回顾时，我却发现这些「放弃」反映出了一个共同的主题：我在试图改变先前基于 「信息有限」环境的思维模式和相应的行为模式，转而用一种「信息无限」 的思维来筛选和处理信息。

Daring Fireball: ChatGPT: The First True Threat to Google Search?:

No need for a winky there. The threat to Google is real. That type of search for a clearly-written one-line programming question used to produce excellent results from Google Search. For a number of years, though, search results for queries like that — both at Google and competing search engines — have been littered with junk generated by content farms. It’s like finding a needle in a haystack sometimes, combing through the query results for a proper solution.

[…] The problem with Google Search today isn’t specific to programming questions, but the general problem of answering how-to questions in any subject.

试下把 ChatGPT 当作我的主要搜索引擎，how to 的问题都找它，看看实际效果怎么样。

More:

Michael Tsai:

The ranking problem is real—these days it’s common for Google search results to be filled with junk. But I think the bigger problem is that Google no longer feels complete. I used to be able to weed out the junk by writing more specific queries. Now, such queries—as well as searches for phrases that I know exist on the Web—commonly turn up nothing.

似乎人们已经忘记 2022 年是怎么度过的了。如果不记录，很多东西都会忘。

准备付费订阅一些 newsletter，例如 Sinocism，在专业领域有一个值得信赖的编辑替你选出值得看的信息，更高效。

新的一年，希望在年末时能对自己说，我成长了，更勇敢、自由、健康。

和恶人在一起，最可怕的是因为憎恨，而让自己从憎恨出发做一切事情。

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TidBITS:

Even though TidBITS Publishing’s headcount fell by 50% last year (from two to one, in a mutual decision—see “Josh Centers: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish,” 14 November 2022), I can say with assurance that we do not see AI as a substantial opportunity, chance to create more efficient infrastructure, or reason to switch to a new platform. Instead, we plan to double down on our efforts to craft everything we write with HI (human intelligence). Bots can write for other bots; we publish for people.

TidBITS 之前竟然只有两个人在运营。

John Gruber:

There are numerous reasons the tech industry wound up at this layoffpalooza, but I think the main reason is that the biggest companies got caught up in a game where they tried to hire everyone, whether they needed them or not, to keep talent away from competitors and keep talent away from small upstarts (or from founding their own small upstarts). These big companies were just hiring to hire, and now the jig is up.

There’s only one big tech company that seemingly never played this hire-for-the-sake-of-hiring game, and thus hasn’t announced any layoffs at all, let alone a headcount that would fill a basketball arena. Just one. One company that has, at its best, always kept its cool in the face of economic swings both up and down.

从 NetNewsWire 用回了 Reeder，还是 Reeder 看着舒服些。

Ted Gioia 的识人八术：

1. 忘掉他们说什么，观察他们的伴侣；

2. 观察他们如何对待服务员；

3. 了解形成他们性格的早期经历；

4. 他们如何使用人最宝贵的两种资源：时间和金钱；

5. 什么最容易惹怒他们？通常这也是他们最讨厌自己的地方；

6. 他们能倾听吗？分清真正的倾听和既不听也不说；

7. 如果他们在小事上耍小伎俩，他们同样会在大事上不守原则；

8. 观察他们如何面对突发问题。既不过度反应，也不消极等待。

现在似乎很少有关于如何判断一个人是否值得交往的文章了，这些技术一方面用来识别他人，同时更重要的是要求自己这么做。

开电动车时不要戴着耳机。

Sinocism 试读。考虑订阅。

有分期付款，提前透支未来的钱，有没有分期存钱，提前准备未来的花销？

Tyler Cowen said the major revolutions he has seen in his lifetime:

The nature, size of impact, and time horizons on all these vary greatly, but here is my list:

1. Moon landing, 1969. Most of the impact still not felt, except for satellites. My parents did let me stay up late at night to watch it.

2. The collapse of communism (1989-????). Poland is a lovely country to visit, Shanghai is amazing. I flew to eastern Europe once I could in 1989.

3. The rise of Asia. Japan and South Korea starting around the time of my birth. The rise of China for sure, and currently the rise of India is a likely addition.

4. Feminization, ongoing, no firm date. Impact plenty.

5. The realization of the internet. Hard to date, but I’ll say the 1990s and ongoing.

6. The smartphone — 2007. Impact in your face. Bought an iPhone the first day, was mocked by MR readers as an “Apple fan boy.”

7. Effective Large Language Models/AI. Impact still to be seen.

The “African population explosion” is perhaps next in line…

和我爸这种胡搅蛮缠、带着恶意的傻逼说话，就是浪费我的生命。

说完是那种被强奸的感觉，你他妈给我死🤮

本来还对东莞有点好感，全没了，就是个烂地方。

李如一：

二〇二〇之後聽到人們談「遠程工作」我覺得 amusing，但今天還聽到有人談「去中心化」就覺得荒唐。世界上有許多日進斗金的遊戲、在十多個國家同時上榜的電視劇、在 YouTube 上幾千萬播放量的歌曲，妳沒聽過沒看過，妳身邊也沒有任何朋友聽過看過。去中心化早就完成了。

「单身的时候感冒发烧都是因为单身。」，哈哈哈哈。

新的一年，想把日语捡起来，再重新学一门新语言，西班牙语或者法语。

NetNewsWire:

(Note: this works with iCloud and “On My…” accounts.)

First make sure you’ve added your Twitter account to NetNewsWire in Settings > Extensions.

Then go, in your browser, to the Twitter list you want to add as a feed. Copy the URL. Then, in NetNewsWire, add it as a web feed (not as a Twitter feed). That’s it.

发现了「她乡」这个网络论坛，一注册就喜欢上了，目前简中网络世界里见过的最好的论坛。看到姐妹们认真生活，真的很感动。

来源：她乡论坛

这位姐妹和我一样，同样做不到“压力越大动力越足”，无法忍受学习紧张的状态下，房间还一片狼藉，心情已经够糟糕了，看到沙发上没整理好的 laundry，只会更烦躁。

失恋和失业都是人生必修课，是时候该认识新的人，重新新的生活了。

减少使用手机，电脑作为查资料、研究的主力工具，跨设备用 Notes 记录。

东莞给我的印象是个文化沙漠，没有好玩的地方，只有去广州、深圳和香港比较方便。

Normal People, 2018, Sally Rooney.

A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir, 2018, Ian Buruma.

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, 1991, Jung Chang.

Out of Africa, 1937, Karen Blixen.

《详谈：左晖》，2020，李翔。

《野蛮生长》，2007，冯仑。

《一本书读懂财报》，2019，肖星。感觉读不太懂，需要再找一本企业财务的书，或者在网上搜集些资料。

《经济学原理》，2015，张维迎。

《中国人太多了吗？》，2012，梁建章、李建新。

《置身事内》，2021，兰小欢。

《丁玲文集：第二卷》，1927 - 1932，丁玲，湖南人民出版社（1982）。

《而已集》，1927，鲁迅，人民文学出版社（1973）。

《流俗地》，2020，黎紫书，麦田出版。

《变量：看见中国社会小趋势》，2019，何帆。

1. 经济上：了解企业的运作、经济的基本知识，培养自己的商业思维，有意识地开始存钱，今年年收入能到 15 万，能存 10 万。

2. 自我素质上：敢于和别人吵架心不跳，敢于和陌生人说话不紧张，敢于抓住机会努力尝试，更加自律，管理好自己的情绪和行为。

3. 放弃中文，不用中文作为决策信息来源，坚持看英语新闻，用英文思考。

4. 坚持写作和读书。

女朋友的妈妈生病住院了，这几天她去医院照顾阿姨。旁边床位是个男的，得了尿毒症，每天要做透析，家庭经济状况不是很好，住院治疗的费用对他家是不小的压力。他的老婆在病房照顾他，为了省钱，这几天每天吃泡面。女朋友看到后觉得挺不容易的，给阿姨带饭的同时也给他们带了一份，他们很感激，后来他们给女朋友一家也分享肉丸吃。

晚上和女朋友打电话，和我说了这个事。我说她做的很好，简直是人间小天使，给陌生人善意，让这个世界变得更好一些。之前重庆封城时，我给流浪爷爷买食物，也和女朋友说了。喜欢和女朋友一起分享各自生活中美好的事。

回家整理东西，以前很多觉得要留着的东西，现在都觉得不那么重要没必要留着了，人真的会变。

研究生考试考完了，成事在天了🙏

这次考试在长江师范学院，也就是何伟曾经待了两年的涪陵师范专科学校，感觉涪陵这个地方就是山里的一个小城，真佩服何伟在这里待了两年。

Paul Graham:

Unless you’re a lawyer or a lexicographer, in a good faith conversation with someone smart, you rarely have to talk about the meanings of the words you’re using. So if you have to, it’s a sign that you’re talking to someone stupid or intellectually dishonest.

辣条只是看着好吃，买了吃觉得好咸。

今天解封了，本以为不会有结果，没想到这么快。自由来之不易，向那些争取自由的学生和勇敢者们致敬。这次白纸革命，看到很多人年轻人的勇敢，很幸运能见证这次公民事件的发生，虽然没有直接参与，但他们的精神会成为我们这一代人的底色。

12/2/2022

看理想电台 275 期「离开看理想之后，我去深圳围观“搞钱”」里，嘉宾之前在北京生活，之后去深圳，她说没去深圳之前，对深圳的刻板印象是文化沙漠。我还蛮惊讶的，我自己的经历，深圳还是有很多文化活动的，比如 B10 Live House、旧天堂书店、OCAT 深圳馆。

有人说汉语天生有含蓄、委婉的特点，我不觉得这是汉语天生的特点，更多是受使用汉语的人所在环境的影响，如果一个地方不能公开谈论一些事，就只能用委婉、含蓄的方式谈。同时，不要忘记，汉语不是中华人民共和国大陆特有的语言，香港、台湾、新加坡、马来西亚、海外华裔都使用汉语，如果要讨论汉语，要把这些地方的汉语使用情况纳入讨论范围。

文史类的书籍，我喜欢看旧书，一些旧书能带来更强的新鲜感，读旧书时会发现他们用的语言和生活方式和现在不一样，可以借此想象生活的其它可能。

NHK节目《日本人不理解中国人为什么觉得日本人装逼》

我喜欢和亲密的人说谢谢，去电影院看电影会一直等到最后一刻才走。看来，我很 Japan。

蔡志浩:

一輩子依賴私人機動運具的人很少真的認真走路，也就很難對城市有全貌觀。我不相信這些人的視野。

Eric Liu:

有些翻译（无论是人还是机器）只会选择第一义项，牛头不对马嘴。英文的 translation 不一定是「翻译」啊，明明还有「平移」的意思啊。

部落格的理由 – Taiwan 2.0:

許多部落客寫著寫著，覺得讀者人數沒有增加，就不想寫下去了。其實，寫作可以看成想法的整理與記錄，在書寫中得到把事情想清楚的快感。寫完了，也想清楚了，你就不需要再為舊事煩心，可以再想別的事，再繼續寫下去。有多少讀者是次要的事，重要的是它可以讓你的頭腦隨時準備好接收新的事物，思索新的問題。

最好的养生是离开有毒的环境。

腕 writes about me. Thank you. I appreciate those memories with you.

MarsEdit 5:

Now, when you’re at your Mac and a whimsical thought comes to mind, you can press a system-wide shortcut to bring up this MarsEdit panel:

(…)

Just type your message, optionally add a title, and press the “Post” button. MarsEdit will shuttle it off to your blog, and you can get back to whatever it was you were doing.

MarsEdit 5 支持全局快捷键，可以立即调出编辑面板，像发 Tweet 一样发部落格文章。逃离 Twitter 到 Mastodon，不如回到部落格，没有规定部落格一定要写很长。

有个胡锡进一样的爸爸是什么感觉 😵‍💫

失敗者社會學 | Jedi’s BLOG:

失敗者社會學不是一門闡釋如何操作人心、直接教導如何提供照護服務的課程，這門課不會帶來答案，反而開啟更多問題、提供更多視角，讓聽力師對於個案（服務對象）的生活樣態、社會驅動力更為敏銳，更有效實施以人為本的介入技巧。再次強烈推薦給所有投身到此領域的夥伴。

「不會帶來答案，反而開啟更多問題、提供更多視角」应该是人文学科的价值。

香港 Covid-19 数据：

https://chp-dashboard.geodata.gov.hk/covid-19/zh.html

萧瀚:

【勇敢作为一种伦理】我对于《论语》中所谓“知其不可而为之”的说法一直是不同意的。无论“知其不可而为之”，还是“知其可而为之”，注意力几乎都过多集中于结果了，存在着对结果至少隐性的预期。作为一种伦理的“为之”，我更推崇“知其当为而为之”，这才是最大限度排除成败干扰的非效能主义伦理立场。

Paul Graham:

A good writer doesn’t just think, and then write down what he thought, as a sort of transcript. A good writer will almost always discover new things in the process of writing. And there is, as far as I know, no substitute for this kind of discovery.

[…]

But if you need to solve a complicated, ill-defined problem, it will almost always help to write about it. Which in turn means that someone who’s not good at writing will almost always be at a disadvantage in solving such problems.

[…]

You can’t think well without writing well, and you can’t write well without reading well. And I mean that last “well” in both senses. You have to be good at reading, and read good things. [2]

People who just want information may find other ways to get it. But people who want to have ideas can’t afford to.

Notes

[2] By “good at reading” I don’t mean good at the mechanics of reading. You don’t have to be good at extracting words from the page so much as extracting meaning from the words.

我一直觉得，写作是成本很低但很有效的一种思维锻炼。提高自己的写作最重要的途径就是阅读。

在一个微信群里发了重庆超人哥的几个视频，我手机上显示发送出去了，群里人却看不到。

睡不着，想到乌鲁木齐同胞在大火中的尖叫、哭喊，太令人难过了。

MarsEdit 5 Public Beta - Red Sweater Blog:

Here’s a bullet list of some of the biggest changes:

- New Markdown syntax highlighting in plain text mode
- New “Micropost” interface for streamlined publishing of short-form posts
- New calendar-based date editor changing publish dates
- New inline find/replace interface used throughout the app
- Support for inserting photos and sketches directly from iPhone or iPad
- Rich editor updated to modern WebKit2 for improved performance

[…]

MarsEdit 5 will be a paid upgrade for existing licensed users of MarsEdit 4, and a free upgrade for people who purchased MarsEdit 4 after July 1, 2022.

It seems that there are not so much changes. I’m interested in the “Micropost” interface. But really happy that I can get a free upgrade. MarsEdit is by far my most-loved app on Mac.

乔纳森:

今天才发现，在此书中，阿伦特对言论自由有一段很警辟的解说。她提出，自由地言说，其实重点不在于想说什么就说什么的权利本身，而在于“我们从经验中知道没有谁全凭自己就能充分地把握客观世界的全部现实”，因此，“只有在我们彼此交谈的自由中，我们所谈论的世界才会从所有侧面中呈现出来，具备客观性和可见性“。她说，”活在一个真实的世界中，跟与别人一起议论这个世界，这二者本质上是同一回事。“（Living in a real world and speaking with one another about it are basically one and the same）我们是否可以由此引申说，假如我们不能与别人一起议论这个世界，那么我们所生活的这个世界就不会是真实的？

(粗体我加的）

Keyboard Shortcut: Control - Command - P

离研究生考试还有 30 天，加油⛽️。现在学 1 分钟，相当于之前学 10 分钟。

来源：t.me/intheflux

最近做菜也有这个感受。想快一点，开很大的火炒，很容易炒焦。

Victor Shih:

Why didn’t China carry out a vaccination campaign before signaling partial opening? What went wrong?

FT China
@ftchina

Covid-19 cases in China are spiralling towards record highs, forcing officials to again lock down large swaths of the country.

The world’s second-biggest economy reported nearly 28,000 new Covid cases on Tuesday on.ft.com/3V4Na44

Nov 22, 2022 at 5:00 PM

From: https://twitter.com/whyyoutouzhele/status/1587777002089713664

Ko-Hua Yap:

現在的大學生好像不太用隨身碟了。以前學生上台報告，從隨身碟打開簡報檔，10秒搞定。現在都要連上雲端，驗證東驗證西，3分鐘還搞不定。如果有5-6組以上要報告，累積的時間相當驚人。

更好笑的是，很多人連完雲端後忘記要登出，帳號開在公用電腦隨人看，結果比隨身碟更不安全。

Massimo:

Crested mynas, as many other birds, are born altricially, which means young are underdeveloped at the time of birth, therefore fed by parents. When they grow up, they have to learn that food doesn’t simply jump into their beaks

[📽️: Rebecca Gelernter]

N refers to new window:

Command-N：New Window
Shift-Command-N：Reopen the last window you closed

T refers to new tab:

Command-T: New Tab
Shift-Command-T：Reopen the last tab you closed

W refers to Withdraw:

Command-W: Close the active tab.
Shift-Command-W: Close Window

I thought W referred to Window…and often closed tabs and windows unintentionally…

Chongqing has been in de facto lockdown for about 13 days since 9, Nov..Yesterday, notorious Lockdown Aunt, vice premier Sun Chunlan came to Chongqing. I lose hope about the life in China which is a prison. Today, I listened to a podcast (Apple Podcasts Link) about the emerging e-commerce industry in South Eastern Asia. It gave me hope about working overseas. I know, sooner or later, I will work and live abroad and escape from China. This requires a long preparation. I will start it right now.

Xiaocha and Frank shared a photo of they preparing for the new lectures. I find they used sheets to organize the lectures. Xiaocha and Frank are good at working in workforce in my mind. From my previous experience, people like using sheets to do everything in their works. It’s not only a statics tool, but also a tool for organizing thoughts and information.

Just discovered that the theme of NASA’s blog is the same as mine: Wordpress Twenty Sixteen.

Activist 的正确样子

身为 activist 最重要的是活成能够诱惑别人的样子。无论困苦还是风光，都得让人感到「如果接受了妳的理念，或许我也可以活成妳的样子，那样很好」。

Nike FC Presents the Footballverse - YouTube

For the first time, get the vibe of football, from a commercial advertisement.

不知道为什么，特别讨厌在句尾加「哈」。看到想吐。

时刻告诫自己，think before speak, read before think，多下功夫读相关领域的文章、书籍，不断思考，做出自己的判断。不要让想赢的冲动破坏自己的正常思考。

My father:

中国的防疫政策主要考虑因素是对弱者的照顾。人类曾经历过很多次全球性的大疫情，物竞天择，弱者消亡。人类经历优化后，强者再出发，世界获得重生！这很残酷，却是自然规律。

我猜这也是大部分中国人心里的想法

我爸就是没文化，好不容易到了城里，天天享受着做城里人的身份，实际上又自卑，和他沟通完全不在点子上，和他说什么，他都能扯到他买房的地方好，别的地方差，经不起别人半点说他买房的地方不好。天天说别的地方不好，在家里群里发些悲惨的疫情悲剧，一点没有同情，就说其它地方是垃圾。但一谈说中国当前防疫政策不行，他买房的地方在中国，似乎就暗示了他买房的地方不好，就开始大说特说爱国主义，什么「狗不嫌家贫，子不嫌母丑」、「一个人一旦背叛了自己的祖国，也就丧失了做人的根本。」。真是好笑，你这精致的利己爱国主义，具体的人你不关心，爱这空虚的国。

Tyler Cowen on who are the best Ukraine predictors?:

1. Have visited Ukraine and Russia, as many times as possible.

2. Have Ukrainian and Russian friends.

3. Well-read in Russian literature, and a sense of how imperialistic so many of the Russian intellectuals and writers have been.

4. Some understanding of how the KGB perspective in Russia differs from the views of the military, all as it might reflect upon Putin and his decisions.

5. Well-read in the general history of war, in addition to the history of the region.

Who are the best China predictors?

贾樟柯：

这几年越来越觉得，我变成北京朝阳区的一个居民了。跟世界……也出不了国，同行的影片能看到，但同行的想法，特别是年轻一代的想法，我不知道。

我们需要线下交流，在网上找到电影看很容易，但我们需要和他人交流才能让知识在身体里流转，真正变成身体的一部分。

Ben Werdmuller on what to write in a blog:

I once gave someone the advice to write something interesting to them on their blog every weekday for a month - and then to comment on someone else’s blog. Those comments are important: blogs are a community spread across thousands of sites, and it’s a good idea to join in and add value where you can. Don’t comment to self-promote; comment to share and uplift.

我从今年年初建立这个部落格，大部分的文章，都是引用加评述的形式。尤其是看完一些 long-form 的文章，或多或少都有些点想分享，我就会把这些点引用起来，有时就直接就成为一篇部落格，有时会加上一些自己想说的话。由此可见，我需要借助他人的文字来开启我自己的思考。前人对自己说的话谦称「抛砖引玉」，实乃确确实实有引她人思考的作用。

Decide to quit Twitter for a while

一次过二笔还是有些狠的，可能明年还要再考一次。不过我对 CATTI 笔译已经厌烦了，尤其是汉译英，翻译着又臭又长的文章真的很难受。试试 CATTI 口译怎么样。

这次考试可以算作为十二月研究生考试做准备，一些教训：

1. 单词很重要
2. 汉译英和英译汉都要准备，平时汉译英练的多些，这次英译汉做起来感觉很吃劲。
3. 模拟考试各个细节，在规定时间内完成「完成度」和「质量」两个目标，形成一套应试方法论。

最后的时间要注重应试。

PS：谢谢亲爱的从早上 5 点陪我到考完 ❤️❤️

准备 CATTI 过程用到的网站，存个档：

1. 佩琪翻译学堂，里面有 CATTI 往届题目。
2. 中华人民共和国国务院新闻办公室，有政府白皮书英文版。

害怕黑夜，害怕晚上，害怕回到租的房子。

没有任何期待，只有更坏，不敢期待。

需要一个拥抱，感谢书店的陌生人，谢谢你们坐在旁边，谢谢你们的陪伴。谢谢路上的行人，让我知道这个世界还存在。

腕：

2012-05-12 加入微博 孩子那个时候出生的话现在都上四年级了 ​​

我真正开始上网是从大学之后，有了自己的手机。开始使用微博大概大二的时候，不过一直就没怎么用微博，最近为了考研才日常使用微博。接触电脑要早些，一年级就玩过我爸当时用的 Thinkpad，当时电脑系统是 Windows XP，很喜欢玩里面的弹弹珠的游戏。家里三年级的时候买了台台式 PC，不过使用也很少，每个星期和我爸视频通话大概一个小时，自由玩半个小时。到高中就几乎断网了，只有一台打电话用的功能机。所有，我真正的上网史开始于大学。

我的工作台。

我喜欢这种笔、纸、书籍、电脑混合的工作台，桌子够大。准备买一个独立键盘，方便打字。

1. 去星巴克、KFC 和麦当劳，可以不消费坐很长时间但没有羞愧感，去其它地方没有消费空坐着就很不好意思。

2. 长时间在家不出去，看不到其他人，会抑郁，最近复习喜欢去观音桥的星巴克。

除了看新闻之外，一定要看书。带着问题意识看书。天天追新闻，情绪很容易被影响。看书相对来说可以让你有一个更稳定的内核。

我目前阅读来源：

1. Reeder 上订阅的部落格、新闻媒体、豆瓣动态、Newsletter。
2. Twitter
3. 微博
4. 书籍

理想的阅读比例：

书籍：50%
Reeder: 30%
Twitter: 15%
微博：5%

蔡志浩（1、2）：

我嫌棄你的用詞很少是因為政治立場。而是因為你太隨便，不認真訓練自己鑑別看似相近的詞彙的細微語意差異。

表達的精準是可以且應該持續訓練的。你不能永遠留在差不多就好的層次，又指責別人誤解你或找你麻煩。

Manton Reece:

On first reading, this sounds pretty good. I agree that we shouldn’t be stuck in our own bubbles of misinformation. But the part Elon gets wrong is the premise that there should even be a “common digital town square” controlled by a single company. I reject that idea.

The common digital “square” should be the entire web, with a diverse set of platforms. There should be common APIs but many communities with their own rules, goals, and business models. Concentrating too much power in only a couple social media companies is what created the mess we’re in. The way out is more platforms, free to make the best decisions for their users knowing that there are options to leave and less lock-in for developers.

沿着嘉陵江跑了一段。

One detail mentioned by Huazong:

Hu was asked to leaving before the live streaming began. But journalists had already entered and witnessed the shocking scene.

I tend to believe that Xi didn’t publicly humiliate a former top leader. This is not logical in any senses. The key point is the reactions of other people in the congress.

The apathy of other party colleagues is truly breathtaking. They are likely to be unaware of what is going on, fear and numbness keeping them from looking away. This is indeed undignified.

飞机飞过天空，天空之城
落雨下的黄昏的我们
此刻我在回忆的夜里
感觉着你忽明忽暗

我想回到过去，沉默着欢喜
天空之城在哭泣越来越明亮的你
爱情不过是生活的屁
折磨着我也折磨着你

港岛妹妹，你献给我的西班牙馅饼
甜蜜地融化了我，天空之城在哭泣
港岛妹妹，我们曾拥有的甜蜜的爱情
疯狂地撕裂了我，天空之城在哭泣

有人路过那里，回来告诉我
天空之城在哭泣无法呼吸的你
此刻我在异乡的夜里
想念着你越来越远

————《天空之城》，李志

I learned it from the guide by Santi Younger (via @Louiscard). It’s really useful. I make an adjustment to the Obsidian_to_Anki plugin setting. The original one is:

((?:[^\n][\n]?)+) #flashcard ?\n*((?:\n(?:^.{1,3}$|^.{4}(?<!<!--).*))+)

When I type “#" in the document, there will automatically appear “#flashcard". If I tap enter, “#flashcard” will be typed but also followed by a space. I need to delete the space to fit the plugin setting. I add an extra space after “#flashcard" in the setting, so I just need to tap enter and don’t need to delete a space. The new setting is changed to:

((?:[^\n][\n]?)+) #flashcard  ?\n*((?:\n(?:^.{1,3}$|^.{4}(?<!<!--).*))+)

This works. It’s more convenient.

荞麦（需要关注才能看）：

不过说实话，我很讨厌男的说：你不是独立女性吗你怎么怎么这样的……即使说得再有道理我也会勃然大怒！ ​​​

让我想起 Fleabag 第二季第一集里的笑话：

曼仔：

令人心动的爱人不一定是靠谱的队友，婚恋育三件事还是尽量分开。从我个人的角度来说，育基本上不考虑了，婚暂且不把话说绝，但实话实说也没有太看到婚姻对我的好处和吸引力，恋爱还是可以开心谈谈的。不婚不育顶多有那么一点点遗憾，错婚错育那才真是入刀山下火海元气大伤。

曼仔转发的日记对婚姻生活的描述里，男人的无能与不负责任，女性在婚姻中的巨大牺牲，看着让人窒息。

Learn a phrase: get in the way.

To obstruct or interfere with something.

Examples: 

1. Learning is necessary for our success and personal growth. But we can’t maximize the time we spend learning because our feelings about what we ‘should’ be doing get in the way.

2. You can come into the kitchen to observe, but please try not to get in the way.

晚上买了两包麻辣锅巴，一晚上就吃完了，现在口腔里有个紫色血泡。在网上查了下，和这位病友的情况差不多，应该就是口腔黏膜血泡，以后不能一次吃太多这种又干又硬的食物。

The sentence which includes an obvious grammar mistake is quoted. Shameful. 🤦‍♂️

This is a collection of photos of Wuhan from Percy’s song. Wuhan is beautiful. I grew up in Hubei province, the capital city of which is Wuhan. But I have only gone to Wuhan twice, one time in 2010, another in 2017. The memories are vague and I am not familiar with the city. Wuhan is a city for exploration in the future.

I purchased the Tweetbot 5 for iOS. The after Tweetbot versions need subscription to use advanced features, otherwise it’s a reading-only mode in which you can’t tweet and follow. I still used the Tweetbot 5. But there have always been problems of playing videos, I couldn’t play the videos within the app and need to open the tweet in Safari to play them. This had been quite annoying and I decided to try the new Tweetbot. The problem doesn’t happen in the new version and I love the new design. Recently I have changed the my perspectives on electric devices. I decide to use Mac as much as I can. I read and write on Mac, while phones will be a device where I only read. I have also bought the Tweetbot for Mac. If I need to tweet something but my Mac isn’t nearby, I will record them in the Notes and tweet them when I come back to my Mac.

Recently, Lawrence Li made a post about how to organize and save photos and videos. He said he would export the photos and videos to hard drive disks everyday and delete them in the iCloud, which will the deletion of photos and videos in the iPhone simultaneously (see Backup vs. Sync). He said:

照片留在手机里就是方便随手分享，随手分享这种陈习也是时候停一停了。多设备同步于我是鸡肋而已。

I agree with it. It’s time to stop the habit of sharing everywhere and anytime.

Think beyond the physical senses

1. River Town, Peter Hessler. 研究生考试要去重庆市长江师范学院（何伟教书时叫四川涪陵师范高等专科学校），去之前再重读一遍。

2. 《梁永安：阅读、游历和爱情》，梁永安。

3. 《梁永安的爱情课》，梁永安。

4. 《社会学爱情思维课》，沈奕菲。

最近和女朋友的爱情有了些问题，越来越体会到结婚在中国是两个家庭的事，除了从情爱的角度，是否可以从更大的社会背景看爱情和婚姻，希望这几本书能给自己一些理解的线索。

5. 《置身事内》，兰小欢。最近感兴趣无处不在的 Big Brohter 到底如何影响千万普通百姓生活，听说这是一本讲其在经济领域的影响，看一下。

茄子：

百度云上下载的东西都只能在百度云里打开。想用第三方程序？百度上提供的方法是：改掉后缀，显示打开失败以后复制到其他app里去。当然你也可以用百度云打开后，点击右上角的三个点，选择用其他应用打开或者分享到…

试了下，我把后缀改为 .package，这个方法有效，而且没有限速。

In the introductory article by Ian Johnson, he answers the question “Will there be any big policy announcements during the twentieth party congress, such as economic reforms or a lifting of China’s zero-COVID policy?”:

Probably not. Congresses are about choosing the party’s leaders and setting its general direction. There will be a lengthy communiqué issued at the end of the meeting from which observers can glean ideas about what the government has planned. But it will mostly praise the government and list challenges.

(I style glean as bold.)

The meaning of glean from Oxford Dictionary of English:

obtain (information) from various sources, often with difficulty: the information is gleaned from press cuttings.

This is the first time I read the verb. It’s accurate. I need to learn more words like this.

The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is to open on 16 October. It’s a hot topic on the Internet. I spent much time on reading information about it. I find it more useful to read introductory articles by experts than to read fragmented information. Here is a piece by Ian Johnson about some basic concepts of Chinese politics. 

In the upcoming congress, Xi is going to get his third term as general secretary of the party and chairman of the Central Military Commission. He will get his third term as the president of China on the National People’s Congress in the next spring. 

In another piece by Ian Johnson written for Council on Foreign Relations, Ian explains the pyramid-type structure of CCP:

Near the top is the twenty-five-person Political Bureau, or Politburo, which is made up of military officers, provincial leaders, and central party officials. Out of this group is drawn the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, which makes most of the crucial decisions. The head of the Standing Committee is the party’s general secretary, Xi Jinping.

A diagram to illustrate it:

Although sharing this kind of basic background information seems silly, I feel that I have learnt much from this kind of introductory articles. It’s not shameful to do this.

-—–

Ian Johnson’s continuing series of interviews with intellectuals, activists, and artists in China on The New York Review of Books. It seems worth reading.

I use MarsEdit to write my blog. My blog is hosted in Wordpress.com. I can use MarsEdit to insert photos easily in the post, but can’t do it with videos and sound files. I choose to upload sound files to SoundCloud and video files to YouTube and embed them to my blog. Here is the guide from MarsEdit:

In MarsEdit, locate the text cursor in the post where you want the video to appear, and select Edit -> Paste HTML Source. This will insert the embedding code correctly in either Rich Text or Plain Text modes.

Here is the example:

SoundCloud:

[soundcloud url=“https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/191036218" params=“color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true” width=“100%” height=“166” iframe=“true” /]

Youtube:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZWcDu940eI]

The embedded SoundCloud player fits the screen, but the embedded YouTube player occupy the whole width and is ugly. I need to learn how to adjust the width of the embedded player.

 John Gruber:

What we need isn’t an everything app. It’s an everything device, with small focused apps for features. You want to do more? Download — or better yet, create — a new app. And you’ve already got one in your pocket — or in your hand, as you read this very sentence on it — right now.

Steve Cichon:

Some people like to spend $3 on a cup of coffee. While that sounds like a gamble I probably wouldn’t take, I’ll always like to gamble – especially as little as three bucks – on what I might be able to dig up on Buffalo and Western New York, our collective past, and what it means for our future.

The future is in the past. 阅读旧书的乐趣。

安妮老师在前几天的一次模拟面试后的分享《想都是问题，做才有答案》。

Spark email brings an updated experience and Windows support:

Windows has 1.4 billion users worldwide, including many business users. Now people who use Windows can focus on what’s important and enhance their productivity with Spark.

Windows 上终于有可以用的 Email Client 了。

Nikkei Asia:

If your baby is crying heavily, carrying the child as you walk for five minutes is an effective way to calm the infant and induce sleep, researchers led by Kumi Kuroda of Japan’s national scientific institute Riken have found.

Letting that baby sleep in your arms for another eight minutes helps prevent the child from waking once put in bed, said the international research team, which experimented in search of the best way to put infants to sleep.

…

Walking at a normal speed appears sufficient, but since the babies were likely to wake up when the adult stopped walking, the results suggest it is better to step as if you are walking in a circle around a table, rather than going back and forth in a hallway.

hem, next time encounter a baby, try if this is effective.

The New York Times:

More than 125 people died Saturday night after a professional soccer match in Malang, Indonesia, when fans rushed the field, prompting the police to fire tear gas into tightly packed crowds, causing many to be trampled, according to local officials.

What the fuck…

《梦回重庆》里「龙门阵一例」记录的一个对话：

「你哥子晓不晓得，我为啥子那么欢喜狗？」

女朋友对我喊过「哥子」，每次都是在不耐烦时说的，我总以为是贬义，听成「鸽子」。

维基百科介绍：

《雾都夜话》是中国重庆电视台的一档方言栏目剧，自1994年开播至今，每次播放一集或半集方言自制剧，题材多取自真实故事，以家庭、婚恋、伦理为主要内容，演员也多是普通人。在重庆当地观众中广受欢迎，收视率表现优秀，是重庆电视台的特色节目，曾数次获得奖项。

现在还在播出，女朋友父母经常看。重庆电视台把节目放到了网上，可以在网上看最近的节目。

在网上搜雾都夜话，发现了一个同名的嘻哈歌曲。歌词里讲到，沙坪坝之前是重庆的红灯区？

International Translation Day | United Nations

30 September is the International Translation day, celebrating the feast of St. Jerome, the Bible translator.

时间过得很快，今天过去，9 月就过完了，明天就是 10 月了。日子一天天嗖的一下就过去了，每一天都是宝贵的，要想真的通过考试：

- 要以分钟为单位规划时间

- 每天都要有规划，每天都要有突破

- 时时刻刻记住考试的时间，心中有日历，月、周、日。

李如一在一个私人群里说：

在學校學，也是教授講課。那教授把講座錄下來放 YouTube 不是任何人都可以學了嗎？事實就是如此。但這是學習任何題目的第一步而已。第二步是要和同儕討論。這是互聯網的弱項。因爲妳不容易找到同儕——經驗、水平和妳類似的，而且又有動力和妳密集交流的人。

任何知識，學它都是最容易的一步。接下來的那一步，讓知識在自己身體內生長，現在的很多人根本都不知道有這麼一步。她們很快可能就去 YouTube 學別的知識了。然後學了好多很滿足，就像日本人喜歡考各種資格證書。

学习的第二步：与同侪交流，让知识在自己身体内生长。

The Real Story Behind China’s Battery-Draining Push Notifications

这个汉洋写的？

This morning, I spent about 4 hours in watching pornography from 9am to 12am. Recently I began to use tomato clock app. The average concentration time is 1 hour. In the previous post, I wrote that we should more use our “first brain” and don’t rely on softwares. This morning’s experience tells me that there are internal laziness and attention deficit in me. I treat them like physical disease. The softwares are like medicines that help me to overcome them. Another finding from this morning’s experience is that mobile phones are more likely to incite addiction than laptop. I will try to avoid using phone as much as possible. The main apps I use on mobile phones are WeChat and tomato clock. I can change them into the Mac version and Apple Watch version separately.

Preparing for the exam in December is a long marathon. It requires patience, determination and concentration. Record everyday’s process.

不要抗拒和别人互动。你要明白：你的语言和行为可以引起他人的反应，you can put influence on others，你猜想别人会怎么反应，结果别人怎么反应，或许不一样，或许一样。你要对这之间的不同好奇。两者越来越一样之后，说明你的经验越来越成熟。

7/9/2022

准备入职一家外贸公司，之前公司是个工贸一体的厂家，现在转至代理商行业。复试时，问了老板一个问题，厂家为什么不自己销售。其实工厂也销售，销售给外贸公司。卖给经销商的好处：以更优的成本获得市场占有率。

7/15/2022

乐融每次周一的培训，强度和压力太大了，除了上厕所，其它时间都在进行类似考试的排练，每次培训完脑壳疼。

6/27/2022

最近听到好几个关于升学的好消息：

1. 曾经隔壁邻居一个姐姐本科三本，今年考取了上海大学的博士；

2. 女朋友的朋友专科，升本后今年考取研究生；

3. 大姨的女儿高考成绩出来了，分数蛮高，准备报考武汉大学。

为她们感到高兴，希望自己今年考硕士研究生可以成功。

Update:

妈妈朋友的女儿，从二本考上了云南大学研究生

7/9/2022

From Benedict Evans:

‘Data’ does not exist as one, single, unified thing, where you can add every row and table of every different kind to one giant pool and get more and more insight.

…

The trouble is, most of the meaning and hence the value in most of ‘your’ data is not in you but in all of the intersections with other people.

…

That is, for many of these systems the value isn’t in the ‘data’ at all but in the flow of activity around it - the meaning is not in the picture or video you post but in how the network reacts to it, and how the products creates and captures that reaction.

6/25/2022

From John Gruber:

The important thing to note is that you don’t have to do anything on this screen to hard-lock your device — once you’ve gotten to this screen, the device is already hard-locked and will require the passcode to unlock. You can’t use Face ID or Touch ID again until the passcode has been entered. This is important because it means you can easily hard-lock your iPhone without even looking at it, or removing it from your pocket or purse. That you can do this surreptitiously is very much by design.

…

Just press and hold the buttons on both sides. Remember that. Try it now. Don’t just memorize it, internalize it, so that you’ll be able to do it without much thought while under duress, like if you’re confronted by a police officer. Remember to do this every time you’re separated from your phone, like when going through the magnetometer at any security checkpoint, especially airports. As soon as you see a metal detector ahead of you, you should think, “Hard-lock my iPhone”.

…

I find the press-and-hold method easier to remember. I think of it as squeezing my iPhone for a moment to protect its contents.

A hidden but very useful design in iOS.

6/9/2022

「人物速写」计划，观察身边的人，通过简短的语言，运用直接引语、夸张等手法，抓住人物的神韵。

Stay tuned.

I am laid off yesterday. My May’s salary was overdue for 2 months. I have read a news report that many early education institutions were closed. I should have recognized these as signals and found new job…Since now, I have done two job, in both of which I didn’t pass the assessment and became am official worker. Some lessons from previous work experiences.

- treat the probation period seriously
- actively participate in the work and focus on the result
- integrate into the work team asa and build personal relationship with them
- you may receive vocational training, take that seriously, the feedback from the trainer affects the assessment
- if there is any signals that the company is bad, prepare for the next job asa
- learn from your leaders and prepare for the skills at 1 year earlier.
- focus on important things, know priorities.

早上准备面试的自我介绍，找到五月写的英文自我介绍，读下来，竟然有些地方读着绕口……才两个月没有听、开口说英语，就退化成这个样子……每天都要开口说英语

还有 10 天就要 CATTI 考试了，基本没怎么准备，近几年考的题目都没有认真做完。是不是要反思下，除了空想之外，有没有拿出时间踏实地练习呢？CATTI 没有通过不影响研究生入学初试，也不会决定复试。剩下的 10 天里，把该做的做好，每天的翻译练习做好，把翻译教程看完。

6/9/2022

通过了三天试岗期，周五第一天上班，有了自己的工位，开始了第一天正式工作，一天都坐在工位上，面对着电脑，学习产品知识，最大的感受就是困，如何做好精力管理很重要。刚开始的时候，就一个劲地在学，感到累的时候，一看时间过去了一个多小时。后来用了番茄钟的工作方法，每工作 25 分钟，主动去休息 5 分钟，效果还蛮不错。自己一次最长专注极限大概 40 分钟，专注 25 分钟后刻意去休息一次，让自己的专注力始终保持在较高的水平。做了一张图，展示运用番茄钟，人为干预注意力，让专注力保持在较高水平。（号外：用 Keynote 做图还蛮方便）

7/23/2022

离职后

这个月6号办完了离职手续，7号和8号去贵州和顺顺去梵净山玩了两天。回东莞之后先病了一场，现在才差不多好了，差不多两周过去了。应该想想之后的打算了。先是把生活习惯养好，能独立照顾好自己，至少，先把做菜学会。然后就是开始想想自己的职业发展了。读研究生要想好读什么专业，去哪个城市、什么学校。现在找工作不能像之前哪样随便了，选择一个发展潜力大的行业，上中游哪个位置，合适的公司。年前争取把驾照拿到。

12/19/2021

爸爸：

你考上研究生，毕业之后在东莞当老师，一个月两万。当上老师之后，很容易找一个老师当老婆，工资也是一两万。我到时候给你们凑点钱付个首付，你们一起出月供。在这边生存很容易的。

要是你自己不行，找的老婆也不行，到时候的生活可以想到是很惨

你天天去喂猫，东湖花园那些老人怎么看，绝对是，一个年轻小伙子，不去干活，天天喂猫，一定是有什么问题。我经常看到一个傻子，嘴巴歪七八倒地乱动，天天去沃尔玛买点东西，在门口吃。

1/2/2022

刚刚面试完一家公司的英语用户运营岗位，没怎么准备，就在去面试公司路上看了一篇用户运营的文章。整个过程如同机器人一样应答。自我介绍三句话就完了，面试官尴尬地笑了下说「啊？，就没了」。面试官问「最近在找工作除了这个岗位外，还有其它工作吗」。我回答：「也有外贸和互联网行业，工作语言能用到英语」，她接着问：「是不是只要能用到英语就行」，我说：「额，是的」……不用猜已经没戏了。面试最后我问：「还有第二轮面试吗？」面试官说：「没有了，后天联系你的 HR 会告诉你结果，电梯在那边」……

7/14/2022

最近在读的书：

Set 1

1. 《张医生与王医生》，伊险峰、杨樱 著。

2. 《贾樟柯的世界》，Jean-Michel Frozen 著, 孔潜 译。

3. 《飞行家》，双雪涛 著。

4. 《我们唱》，叶三 著。

5. 《回来》，孙中伦 著。

6. 《中国人的焦虑从哪里来》，茅于轼 著。

Set 2

《民国粤菜》，周松芳 编纂。

Set 3

《一些时刻》，苏方 著。

Set 4

《伟大的电影 3》， Roger Ebert 著，宋嘉伟、李钰 译。

Set 5

《虐恋亚文化》，李银河 著。

12/16/2022

不读英文书，感觉心里就有点慌。

1.  The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, Steven Pinker.

2.  A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir, Ian Bruma.

3.《张医生与王医生》，伊险峰、杨樱 著。

4.《冯唐成事心法》，冯唐 著。

5.《虐恋亚文化》，李银河 著。

1/2/2022

Henan Bank Depositors Hit With Red Health Codes | SixthTone: 

People who have arrived in Zhengzhou to withdraw money from embattled regional banks said they have found their health codes turn red — a label mostly reserved for potential COVID-19 carriers or those infected with the virus — after arriving in Henan province’s provincial capital, prohibiting them from accessing transportation networks, public services, and even going to the banks to lodge their grievances.

刚有健康码的时候，就有人担忧健康码可能被政府滥用作为控制人群的工具，不出所料的发生了，in China。

给自己的时间定价格 | Zara Zhang:

尤其是对于年轻的同学，千万不能认为自己的时间是便宜的，因为如果你自己这样认为，别人就会这样对待你的时间。用这个思路去思考花在工作上的时间：我们经常默认，只要花在工作上的时间就都是能给我们带来回报的，所以不算是浪费时间。所以很多人会容忍一些低效的会议。但是如果我们按照自己的时薪去计算而不是公司实际支付的时薪，这个会议还值得花这么大的成本去开么？比撑满工作时长更重要的是节省自己的生命。

要想赚到钱，先要相信自己很值钱。给自己定个时薪：1000元/小时。

IE 在昨天正式退休，过往使用 IE 的经历都很糟糕。报考教师资格证和 CATTI 都指定要用 IE，非得在 Windows 电脑上用，买了 Mac 还不能用。

Young Chinese Have Shunned Marriage. Now, They Want Singles’ Rights. | Sixthtone:

Sixthtone 的文章没有很强的从国外看中国视角下的距离感，语言风格偏向纪实，报道了一些符合 common values 但在大陆简体中文媒体里算先锋的议题。这篇文章报道了中国大陆单身女性群体，她们相互帮助，勇敢争取单身女性人群的法律权利。文章里给了很多链接，通过这篇文章知道了 DiversifiedFamily (WeChat Official Account: duoyuanjia)。简体中文的新闻报道在微信公众号和微博两个平台的恶劣打压下，链接很少，没能给读者提供新闻背景信息，阅读价值大大降低，之后了解中国大陆的情况，读英文报道比简体中文报道有用，悲哀？

由于没有提前至少一个星期和教学主管沟通 CATTI 考试当天请假的事，临时向教学主管请假，周末没有老师可以替我上课，原则上周末也不能请假，最后只请到了半天假。只能弃考上午的综合了。下半年重要的考试还有教师资格证考试、12月的 CATTI 和研究生考试，都是在周末，务必要提前想好请假理由，和教学主管沟通好。

一些笔记和知识整理类的软件宣称要做人的第二大脑，不要忘记，最重要的是自己的生理大脑。连不上网、电脑不在身边的时候，怎么办？

现在网络课程一般都要 100 起步，没有跟上进度，基本不会再打开看了。相比之下，纸质书价格低，50 元可以买一本好书。实体的介质占据着物理空间，暗示要读书，可以随时拿起翻阅。之后，看到想买的网络课程，先看看有没有可替代的纸质书。

@荞麦chen:

昨天我先是发了自己开心喝酒的照片，本来“好男人”那条是粉见，后来打开，我看到转了挺多，第一反应就是把喝酒那条微博删掉了。桉树当时也有点惊诧，说不必那么小心吧。实际上比起男性来，我们女性在各个方面都是小心谨慎过度的。这简直是，长期的一种思维训练。两种性别不共享同一种恐惧。

@荞麦chen：

世界上当然有好男人。好男人应该在别的男人打人时站出来，应该对打人的男人表示愤怒，而不是在这个时候说：“世界上还是有好男人的。”照照镜子吧你。 ​​​

2021 年 6 月 CATTI 三笔实务汉译英：

全面查清我国人口数量、结构、分布、城乡住房等方面的最新情况，了解人口增长、劳动力供给、流动人口变化情况，摸清老年人口规模，为制定和完善未来收入、消费、教育、就业、养老、医疗、社会保障等政策措施提供基础，也为教育和医疗机构布局、儿童和老人服务设施建设、工商业服务网点分布、城乡道路建设等提供依据。

看到这种句子头大。

Kaix.in:

学咖啡，其实学的就是找到咖啡不好喝的原因，并且心里有个调整的方向。而所谓完美的定义，只在于喝咖啡的人，心情好时喝一杯酸质明亮的咖啡或许觉得完美，听着沉静的曲子闭目休息时可能醇厚回甘的咖啡又成了完美。同一种咖啡豆喝出不同的风格，却可以同样完美。