Three years later | #43

Wow, I wrote my last weeknote 3 years ago, that feels like an entire lifetime ago. I truly feel like the 2020 Weiwei is a different person from the 2022...

hmm| #42

Received this from a friend, and has been dwelling on every sentence of this, among many other things.

Hello, again| #41

And all of a sudden, it’s May… A lot has happened in the past few months, in my life, in this world… What can I say, I really feel like...

Well, hello there| #40

New stuff coming soon! I will try to write a longer update when I’m at the airport. Meanwhile, please enjoy this photo of the view when I skiied for the...

Back | #39

I’m back! Staying at home and laying on a couch is so comfortable. My current living space doesn’t have a couch so sometimes I forget what it’s like to take...

Recharging| #38

Woah it’s been while. I’ve been soaking myself in feeling worthless lately. I’m almost back. Menawhile, two pictures I took recently!

Documentaries, Change| #37

Sometimes over dinner, we would watch short (and long) drama. Lately, we made the switch to watching documentaries. Here are some links to the ones I’ve enjoyed lately: Knock Down...

NBA, Halloween, Cabela's| #36

Went to my first NBA game (ever) this month! It’s a brand new stadium and it was so interesting to see how the stadium was designed, how motion design and...

Hundred Rabbits, Ideal Life Style | #35

Several of my friends follow Hundred Rabbits: they (two people) have been sailing and creating software, recipe, games, illustrations on their off-the-grid studio (boat). They are funded by supporters on...

Happy, Twitter, Tahoe | #34

Oh wow, I haven’t written a weeknote in a month… The four of us have been building products every week in the last month. It’s been really fun and I...

Making, Nature, Bonding | #33

Tiny Factories has officially started in September. It feels like there’s some good energy around what we are building and aspiring toward. Let’s keep that going! I’m really enjoying this...

Sad, Happy | #32

Internet Magic, Sports, Weekvlogs? | #31

I really miss the old internet (I was born in the 90s so when I say the old internet, I mean the internet in the early 2000s). I think part...

Judgements, Terrace House | #30

Judgements from people who (indirectly) make me think I’m incapable used to paralyze me. I think I’m getting better at handling judgements from others. Or rather, I now know to...

James Turrell, Independent | #29

I remember seeing James Turrell’s work for the first time at the De Young Museum freshmen year, and then reading more about it. His work has been brought back several...

Performances, Everyone's talented | #28

I’ve been thinking about the idea of performing. Something one of my teacher from college said, that left a deep impression with me, was along the line of :”If I...

New words, Milk tea, Hiking | #27

When I first set up this website for writing weeknotes, I thought I could jot down notes while linking different thoughts with different hashtags. In retrospect that’s not really possible,...

Organization, Resin | #26

This past few weeks, I’ve been interviewing different people about community and technology research. I feel that I’ve learned a ton about interviewing, what it means to cultivate a community,...

Plants, College, SFMoMA, Presentations | #25

I find it somewhat hard to stick to the weekly weeknotes routine. Partially because I sometimes don’t know what to write about. So I’m trying a different approach: Everytime I’m...

Leverage, Weekend, Podcast | #24

Haven’t had a relatively calming weekend in a few months. It’s nice to just relax and read books and play games 😅 Recently wrapped up a housing releated project with...

Events, Coliving, Fake Cactus | #23

These past few weeks were packed with things to do and feeling excited and confused. Went to a few events, worked on projects, made some more progress with work. –...

Recording, Interview, Chair, Table | #22

Time has been passing by very quickly. I’m very much looking forward to the next few weeks: finally settling down in environments where I can be productive, and working with...

It's been a while | #21

Missed 3 weeknotes in the last months. I feel that many things have happened yet nothing much has happened. – I finally got to watch spider-verse and learned about how...

Slow and steady, Adoption | #20

This is my 20th weeknotes. It feels like I’ve been writing weeknotes for half a year now but I suppose I’m still a few weeks short from that. This past...

Events, Catching up, Like-minded people | #19

Missed a week of weeknotes, so here’s a long one. These past two weeks were a lot of absorbing and digesting. I attended the first social systems game night in...

Collective creative freedom | #18

In my weeknotes #9, I wrote about the idea creative freedom: This idea of gaining creative freedom, or research freedom, is perhaps something that I find many different communities strive...

Break, Home, Back | #17

It’s been a month since I last synced weeknotes to the website. I tried out writing weeknotes in Apple Notes for the last month and I think I still prefer...

Book, Communication | #16

Spent the first day of 2019 finishing Kaifu Lee’s “AI Superpower”. It’s been a while since I’ve started and finished a book. I chose to read the book in Chinese...

Things in 2018 | #15

I wanted to document everything I’ve done and have not done this year. The reason why I’ve decided to do this is because I’ve graduate from college, and life/what I’ve...

Custom orders| #14

This time back, I’ve been ordering customized prints and cards for friend’s companies and myself. That process (not really an experience) is an entirely different one than in America. In...

Payment systems, Alternative business models| #13

Skipped a week of weeknotes because I was traveling and getting distracted by being home. This is the first time I’m using Alipay and WeChat Pay and it’s so fascinating...

Reflection | #12

Recently, I’ve been looking back at the think wrong chart, and thinking about how I’m falling into the trap of going for the safe route. To be honest, ever since...

Conversations, Income sharing agreements | #11

📓 Triggered by some recent conversations, I’ve been spending a good portion of this week reflecting upon my post-graduation life. I think I’m getting a much better sense of what...

LA, Scooters | #10

– 🎤 I still need to get better at pitching and proposing. It doesn’t feel like I can effectively highlight the key points I want to communicate, perhaps because I’m...

Creative freedom, School, Micromobility | #9

Been listening to quite a few podcasts about Patreon and Kickstarter lately. This idea of gaining creative freedom, or research freedom, is perhaps something that I find many different communities...

Podcasts, Goal | #8

This week, I’ve finally abandoned Apple Podcasts and switched to Breaker Podcasts. I’v had the Breaker app for a few months now but was never compelled to actually start using...

Time, Coding, Website | #7

This week went by very fast. I really enjoyed working on shadowing the project at work, learning more about the technical aspect of what we are building, and brainstorming possible...

Unsplash, Kickstarter, Job | #6

Launching a Quickstarter through Kickstarter call &BBCube tomorrow and I’m so nervous about it! I love it when a project is coming together and is ready to be shared. It...

Indie Makers, Starting small | #5

Recently, my commute time has increased slightly and coincidently, I’ve stumbled upon several more podcasts to enjoy. In particular, I’ve spent quite a lot of time reading/listening (ironically not so...

Work, School, Reality | #4

This week feels like a week of production work. I spent much less time thinking and a lot more time executing. It feels nice to balance the week with some...

Lost | #3

I feel exponentially lost.

Architecture, Cedric Price | #2

“Technology is the answer, but what was the question?” Cedric Price asked. I’m currently half way through “Architectural Intelligence” by Molly Wright Steenson. Since the beginning of my senior year,...

Four years, post-college, freelancing, collective | #1

It has been 4 months since I’ve graduated from college, and 4 years since I’ve graduated from high school. Time flies. When I graduated from high school, college graduation sounded...