A Technical Guide to Watching Netflix in China

A Technical Guide to Watching Netflix in China

If you're too busy to read all this, here's the recommended solution for watching Netflix: VPS + streaming media unlock + Apple TV. It saves you headaches and delivers an...
2018 Year in Review

2018 Year in Review

Since life hasn't undergone earth-shattering changes, I haven't written a year-end review in quite a few years. Its existence is necessarily a ritual — something worth co...
Ten Years of Blogging

Ten Years of Blogging

If it weren't for the news that NetEase Blog was about to shut down, I never would have remembered my own long-forgotten blog. I logged in and found a bunch of diary entr...
Ray Dalio's Principles for Everyone

Ray Dalio's Principles for Everyone

Principles is neither a success manual nor a sales bible—it's a collection of life lessons that hedge fund godfather Ray Dalio distilled during his time at Bridgewater As...
The Origin of 'Buying Books Like a Landslide

The Origin of 'Buying Books Like a Landslide

I used voice input to tally up how many books I've bought since college until now — finished the list in under 20 minutes. Although the bookshelf looks densely packed, th...
Family History

Family History

I once saw my maternal grandmother reading an old almanac, and I was astonished at the time. I had assumed that older women were all illiterate like my paternal grandmoth...
Reflections on Reading *Soft Burial*

Reflections on Reading *Soft Burial*

Yesterday, I finished reading Soft Burial with a heavy heart, thinking I'd put it down and never bring it up again. But today, picking up Jiang Fangzhou's A Year in Tokyo...
A Road Trip from Chengdu to Qinghai Lake

A Road Trip from Chengdu to Qinghai Lake

Cover photo: A rainbow encountered in Zoigê Damn it! Driving through the Zoigê grassland, the whole stretch was under interval speed monitoring, making me drowsy. The car...