A Journey Through Ideas, Insights, and the Occasional Podcast-Induced Breakfast Yawn
Wow, since where we’ve started, it’s been a year already!
When I hit return after the very first git push origin main, launching the blog, I had no idea where this journey would take me—yet here I am, 365 days later, with an archive full of musings, analyses, and more Ariana Grande and Rachmaninov references than I would have ever imagined.
It’s been a wild ride, one that’s taught me more than I could ever summarize in a single post. But I’m going to try anyway—
Favourite blogs:
Assumption zero for information economics—that there is a cost for acquiring information. In other words, don’t expect anyone to screen through the archive for a post, and that providing high-quality recommendation itself is utmost invaluable. So here are three selected posts, my most favourite:
blowing in th wind | about the ironman triathlon—“delivery, courier and Didi driver”.
Google Gossip — the Cookies Confusion and the Antitrust Avalanche | a look into Google’s advertisement income landscape.
nocturnal narratives | whispers from my nightstand shelf.
A Symphony of Subjects
Over the past year, this blog has become a melting pot of ideas. Frankly, I found that I can be so easily distracted sometimes…
Music has been a constant theme, from the emotive power of Rachmaninoff to the playful dissection of pop culture moments. Technical posts range all the way from the cookie series to paper reading notes. Sometimes I cram the contents parallel with my projects, like proofs for Whittle Index or SHERLOCK—my AI-written code detector. And of course, comments—lowercase aesthetic, movie reviews, and social issues.
It’s been a delightful blend, proving that curiosity truly has no bounds—and neither does my ability to procrastinate on writing about it.
Lessons Learned: the Good, the Bad, and the Podcast-Induced
Maintaining the blog’s daily updates wasn’t entirely easy. It’s a lot of reading and writing. A lot of the insights and ideas comes from breakfast reading feeds—news and podcasts—when I’m half-asleep, nodding along to economic jargons like a zombie who just wants some coffee; limit-time paper summary sessions can be really nice academic practices; cab rides soring in the neon after concerts are absolutely the bed for ideas and insight.
Writing has been a deeply reflective, and I’ve learned so much along the way. One lesson that stands out is knowing when to hold back on top of obsessive persistence. It’s okay to push hard, but it’s important to recognize when you’re crossing into territory where the pursuit of excellence doesn’t overshadow what we’re looking for in the first place.
Anyway, thanks for stopping by. Glad we meet and, in case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night💋.