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For Chinese-speaking engineers scattered around the world, a channel that talks tech in their native language isn't just a learning resource — it's a cultural anchor.
When your thinking habitually runs decades into the future, today's actions lose weight. Recalibrating the time scale you use for different decisions is how you get your drive back.
Jess (李婕絲), deputy director of the Taichung City Rental Association, explains why professional property management is really about converting idle assets into systematically managed products.
Wasted work at the office isn't just bad luck — it follows identifiable structural patterns: unclear goals, no decision-maker, missing acceptance criteria, insufficient resources, no feedback loop. Recognizing these five causes lets you catch dead-end tasks before they start.
The point of system design interviews isn't memorizing answers — it's demonstrating that you can derive design decisions from first principles. Knowing Kafka, Redis, and consistent hashing cold doesn't help; explaining 'why this approach in this context, and what it costs' is what actually matters.
People who seem fearless about big moves aren't braver by nature — they have richer reference points. They've seen enough people 'do the thing and survive' that the unknown has become an estimable risk. And that's something you can deliberately build.
A bad work environment can drain you before you realize it's happening — not because you're not trying hard enough, but because you're pouring energy into a bucket with a hole in it.
Side hustles burn people out not because they're too much work, but because they quietly turn into obligations instead of staying spaces of genuine choice.
The desire to escape pointless competition and the fear of falling behind aren't opposites — they're two sides of the same anxiety.