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Seen in Europe: “Even if you’re not here to stay, I’m happy the universe allowed your soul to stop by.”

Be so busy succeeding that you don’t need to tell the world you’re successful. The talent you want to attract will find you anyway, otherwise they’re not resourceful enough. There’s little benefit and significant harm in being too well-known to too many people in the world.

At some point in your startup journey, you will hear the chorus from both within and without that you must become more of a “real company” and adopt conventional Project Management, HR, and Sales Commission practices. I think entrepreneurs should be deathly afraid of “Frailty before Age” (未老先衰). If you do everything in the sameContinue reading “TotD”

Be both the unstoppable force and the immovable object.

The world is unfair, but the universe is just.

The Ancient Greek philosopher Zeno praised the virtue of Stoicism.  Stoicism is to receive windfalls and triumphs with subdued joy and to face tragedies and setbacks with muted sadness.  Advisors to the Persian king Xerxes summarized the wisdom of the ages as “This too shall pass,” advising that the impact of all positive and negativeContinue reading “Stoicism”

Remember this above all: Be a good person. Your morality will be your Polaris when you are disoriented in the heat of battle. When you glance over every blood-stained warrior within sight and wonder if they are friend, foe, or mercenary, your deeply ingrained principles will be the only things holding you back from descendingContinue reading “TotD”

Connections form and strengthen or weaken and break;Memories and goals can be searingly real or comfortably fake.Your shape and being constantly morph and mutate,As you decide to keep or discard the treasures in your estate. Your many toys strewn about are cheap and weak,The permeating ambient music is bland and meek.The columns and arches withContinue reading “Plastic (poem)”

Rather than subjecting your followers to an endless struggle for survival in the twilight of hope versus despair, consider releasing them into a brave new world with no memories of the past or you. 相濡以沫，不如相忘于江湖

Great success requires that you walk with the wind in your eyes, not at your back. You must resist the urge to shut your eyes or turn around. If you let the wind guide where you go, then you end up where most people are.反其道而行之