This summer was like a continuation of the pandemic without a vaccine. So when I lost control I started reading another alternative reality novel. I still remember last summer I read 银英传 and somehow was able to associate with the BP's readings. This year I just go through the hot picks without thinking too much.

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I am not ready for the 3rd  year. The experience in the 2nd year was that my English reading skill is not up to the task.

And the other disappointment was that I still cannot express more than a few words in the discussions. The same feeling bothered me that what I understood from the text was worthless. And it is becoming harder and harder to ( Read more... )

Basic Program is a reading program from UChicago. The information can be found here [1] and currently it is open for signing up for the next year [2]

Other than BP there are also Open to All Courses and something called "Alumni Courses".  If one follows closely, there are often trials and free events to sign up as well, to get a sense who the ( Read more... )

Last time I wrote a review was in 2018, about 2017. Or maybe I wrote something elsewhere, maybe on Twitter? It was hard to write something freely even with my mother language.

The last week of 2020 was a happy time. The company I worked for (Morningstar) made a decision to let everyone take off this entire week. I kept telling myself unlike before ( Read more... )

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ZR 说，你教小宝滑雪，一定要让他先体会到乐趣，不然他不肯学的。于是他教了小宝很久，果然教会了，小宝玩得特开心 ( Read more... )

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• Sat, 10:25: Any currency can be correlated to local online community, in terms of activity and reason of segmentation, or the lack thereof.

Because people has to diversify the risk of holding one currency (here it is CNY), and gold is such a diversifier because 1. in a local community people believe it can replace current CNY in preserving/ ( Read more... )

昨天怀着忐忑的心情，和LZ讲“用正确的方法做正确的事情”，画了四象限的图。

如果是错误的事，那么做得越多，错得越多。
如果是正确的事，错误的方法，那么会很耽误时间。

这次没有得到太多反对、抬杠的意见。主要是这个话题太简单，太科学，没什么好反驳的？

不过，还是反驳了一些，比如
* 爱迪生不是失败了 999 次，才发明电灯的吗？ --这是正确的方法，做正确的事
* 失败可以积累经验。 --不知道怎么解释
* 这是你让我了解你的办法吗？ --不知道怎么解释

失败不等于错误，失败给人的打击是心理上的，而错误给人的打击是实质的。虽然失败的感觉很差，可是又不是一定要把人生压上去。

两个月前就开始找，不过都是在确定用哪个中介，而不是确定用哪个房子。有一位叫 Danicka (读作 德'妮卡)的中介是 @Properties 的，帮我设置了一个 MLS listing 的 dynamic query，每天都能收到一封邮件，包含一两个新的 listing。后来又找到一位中介叫 Tasha ('塔莎)，是 Apartment People 的。昨天 Tasha 从下午两点到六点，比预定多花了两个小时，总算帮我们定下来了一个--她可是非常热心哪。

这个 MLS 系统 "connectMLS by MRED" 很好用，不知道其他基于 MLS 的系统还有哪些。当然中介还会有自己的系统，记录一些特别的信息。像这个 apartment 就是在 MLS 公开 listing 的， ( Read more... )