- 2022-04-30
- 19:44 #Books/Deng Xiaoping Era/Chapter 5 Standing on the Side in the Mao Era's End 1976 Jiang Qing once said to her Western biographer, Roxanne Witke, "Sex is fascinating in the first few times, but what really fascinates people in the long run is power."
- 10:32 #Books/Deng Xiaoping Era/Chapter 3 Consolidating Order under Mao Zedong's Leadership 1974-1975 Deng Xiaoping faced the challenge of "uniting the victims and perpetrators of the Cultural Revolution," just like other leaders after civil wars in other countries.
- 2022-04-29
- 16:48 #Books/Hot Wind/Impressions Twenty-Five Chinese children, as long as they are born, regardless of whether they are good or not, as long as there are more, regardless of whether they are talented or not. Those who give birth to them do not fulfill their responsibility to educate them... When they are young, they are not treated as human beings, and when they grow up, they cannot become human beings.──Irresponsible for giving birth, also irresponsible for raising.
- 2022-04-28
- 17:09 #Books/Deng Xiaoping Era/Deng Xiaoping's Background and Experience Concentrated power should be exercised from top to bottom. It is absolutely necessary to obey orders from superiors. The amount of democracy allowed depends on changes in the surrounding environment.──Deng Xiaoping wrote this in his homework in Moscow in 1926.
- 2022-04-27
- 10:02 Hidden knowledge is more worth recording, and structured knowledge on the surface can be quickly retrieved and does not need to be recorded too much.
- 2022-04-26
- 10:17 #quote Reading is the most efficient way to acquire knowledge, followed by watching documentaries. Both are enjoyable for the consumers, but not for the practitioners. Source.
- 2022-04-25
- 23:51 #quote If you don't leave today, you will have to run tomorrow.──Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- 12:25 #Books/Learn English and Transform Your Life in 100 Days Recommended romantic movies for practice, because they are closer to everyday conversations, and more importantly, choose movies that you like. The author provided a list of movies: "Notting Hill," "Catch Me If You Can," "Love Actually," "Bridget Jones's Diary," "The Notebook," "Serendipity," "13 Going on 30," "50 First Dates."
- 2022-04-24
- 15:29 #Books/Russell on Happiness/Chapter 14 Work One benefit of work is that it can avoid boredom. When there is no work, choices need to be made, and choices are often annoying. In addition, work can make holidays more enjoyable──after intense work, it is easier to relax during holidays.
- 09:26 Yesterday was World Book Day, and I saw a good book list with a well-written recommendation: Tender Tentacles.
- 2022-04-23
- 09:42 Discovered a way to beautify the homepage: Use a banner plugin to update Bing's daily picture every day, so that you can have a good mood every day. Add Bing's API to the YAML:
banner: "https://api.xygeng.cn/Bing/".
- 09:42 Discovered a way to beautify the homepage: Use a banner plugin to update Bing's daily picture every day, so that you can have a good mood every day. Add Bing's API to the YAML:
- 2022-04-22
- 19:08 #Books/Russell on Happiness/Chapter 10 Is Happiness Still Possible? Any pleasure is valuable as long as it does not harm others.
- 09:50 #quote In China, it encourages taking sides, excludes independent thinking, and punishes individual opinions. Source.
- 2022-04-21
- 23:27 #Books/Russell on Happiness/Chapter 10 Is Happiness Still Possible? Russell mentioned that everyone has a source of happiness, which reminds me of a blog post I wrote a few years ago: "Growing up, not happy anymore? Some classmates pointed out that after becoming student leaders, it seems that everyone is no longer happy. My conclusion at the time was that the process of obtaining happiness is different, and the level is different. Now I think the first half of the sentence is correct, and the second half is wrong. Happiness depends on the individual, and cannot be simply distinguished by levels. What you think is ordinary may be a very happy thing in the eyes of others.
- 22:02 #Books/Ding Village Dream I finished reading "Ding Village Dream" in about five hours. Yan Lianke wrote in the afterword that after finishing this book, he urgently needed someone to talk to, but there was no one to listen. So he ate a bowl of instant noodles, then went to sleep and woke up the next day. Maybe he was exhausted after being immersed in this absurd story for a long time, just like a long-distance race. He once said in the introduction to "Serve the People" that the troubles caused by that book made him shrink back, otherwise he could have written better. Now he only wrote seven-tenths. To be honest, as a reader who just finished reading "Serve the People," I believe what he said. Even for me, this book is only six-tenths, because in addition to being timid, there are too many forms and writing techniques, completely losing the conciseness of "Serve the People," otherwise it would be a good story that could be written better.
- 09:15 Not posting about life on Moments does not mean I don't have a life; similarly, not posting opinions does not mean I don't have opinions.
- 2022-04-20
- 09:05 #Trivia In the past few centuries, Afghanistan invented a container made of mud called Kanjna, which can preserve grapes for six months. Source.
- 2022-04-19
- 18:15 #Books/Ding Village Dream Ding Village did not sell blood at first, but after seeing that the cadres and other villagers were urging to sell blood, and every household in other villages was selling blood, they embarked on a life of prosperity by selling blood... Isn't this an allusion to the crazy development of the economy regardless of the environment?
- 01:01 #Books/For the People's Service Many truths of life need to be expressed in the form of novels. Because some real-life experiences can only reach the realm of truth through fictional bridges.
- 2022-04-18
- 23:19 After reading two threads: Deep Work System for Knowledge Workers Part I, Deep Work System for Knowledge Workers Part II, I can deeply relate to them. The state of deep work is obviously beneficial for improving efficiency, simply put, it is to do three things well: create a suitable environment, schedule time properly, and immerse yourself.
- 20:59 #Tool A web tool for temporary text sharing: typecho.in, similar to note.ms.
- 18:57 memos has been updated to support a time range query syntax
-time: 2022-03-01 2022-03-31, which can retrieve all memos with the "push" tag in March.
- 2022-04-17
- 01:01 #Books/To Live/New Preface to the Wheatfield Edition Life belongs to each individual's own feelings, not to anyone else's opinions.
- 2022-04-16
- 12:48 Learned a new term: Talking Terror. It refers to people who keep talking without taking action. There is a saying that is more appropriate: "All talk and no action." We have many such people in our lives, and the best way to stop them is to show them that you can do it.
- 12:46 #quote The most important part of an article, no matter how long it is, is the conclusion and the logic and facts behind it.
- 2022-04-15
- 09:37 It's a matter of trade-offs, it depends on how you choose. You have the freedom to choose, but you restrict others' freedom of speech. If you're not angry, how can you change things?
- 2022-04-14
- 10:02 Learn English through reaction videos, they are very colloquial and helpful. For example, watching reaction videos of "Attack on Titan" is very interesting. Source.
- 2022-04-13
- 19:04 #Podcast This English podcast is very good, it talks about topics related to technology companies: Acquired. The website also has a text version for easy review, which is suitable for practicing English.
- 18:50 Many problems stem from the fact that we want both this and that, but we don't want to compromise.
- 2022-04-12
- 23:10 #Books/Russell on Happiness/Chapter 7 Guilt Feelings A conclusion reached by a person with full energy and rational thinking should become the principle that he believes in at all times. Believe in your own rational judgment, and do not easily waver unless there are new facts.
- 2022-04-11
- 12:50 #Books/Russell on Happiness/Chapter 5 Fatigue If difficult decisions need to be made, it is best to make them as soon as all the data has been collected. Once a decision is made, unless there are new facts, do not overturn it. Nothing is more exhausting than indecision, and nothing is more futile than vacillation.
- 11:27 NetNewsWire now supports subscribing to Twitter lists, which is a pleasant surprise I discovered today.
- 2022-04-10
- 22:29 #Wang Xiaobo The editor-in-chief of Sanlian Life Weekly, Zhu Wei, wrote an article in memory of Wang Xiaobo: 25th Anniversary of Wang Xiaobo's Death: Looking Back at His Spiritual Home.
- 15:34 "Attack on Titan" is so funny: I super armor him, he kicks me, you follow me, nothing happens.
- 2022-04-09
- 23:56 #Books/Western Aesthetics History/Chapter 2 Plato. His position is basically to stand up for the ruling aristocracy, so in the Middle Ages, Plato's ideas were combined with Christian theology and easily exploited by politicians. This is very similar to the use of Confucianism in ancient China.
- 2022-04-08
- 22:55 #obsidian markdown + mindmap tool: markmap.
- 22:12 #quote (At least in some countries) the law assumes that everyone is innocent unless proven guilty. The new crown has reversed this, assuming that everyone is positive, and you have to prove your innocence. This society suddenly went into chaos. Source.
- 2022-04-07
- 22:05 #Books/Russell on Happiness/Chapter 1 Why People Are Unhappy Part of the reason is that I have come to understand what I truly desire and have obtained a lot of it; another part is that I have successfully abandoned some impossible desires, such as obtaining certain definite knowledge. But more importantly, I have fewer worries about myself.──Russell's love for life: Find things you like; discard unnecessary desires; reduce your worries.
- 14:15 At noon, I read about the "Latest Chinese Cancer Report" and things we need to know. I found that lung cancer is still the most common cancer, and this cancer can actually be effectively prevented through certain measures, such as prevention (quitting smoking) and screening (LDCT), but many people are unwilling to do so, or in reality, they are not doing well for various reasons.
- 2022-04-06
- 22:18 #Books/Western Aesthetics History/Introduction ...Materialism is just a set of words. They stick this label on various things without further investigation... and think that the problem has been solved.──How superficial and lazy.
- 16:47 #quote Loneliness and purposeful loneliness are vastly different. The former is passive, while the latter is active. The same thing, once you take control, the difference will be significant.
- 2022-04-05
- 19:29 #Books/Western Aesthetics History/Chapter 1 Overview of Greek Culture and the Germination of Aesthetic Thought. With Socrates, there was a shift in Greek aesthetic thought. While Pythagoras and others mainly looked at aesthetic issues from the perspective of natural science, trying to find natural scientific explanations for beauty, Socrates mainly looked at aesthetic issues from the perspective of social science, trying to find social scientific explanations for beauty.
- 16:47 #quote Many problems arise from the phrase "wanting both... and not wanting...".
- 2022-04-04
- 17:55 #Books/Russell on Happiness/Chapter 14 Poetry According to Hegel, poetry is the common factor in all arts, so the section on poetry is the essence of the book "Aesthetics." Hegel's understanding of poetry is actually literature or "the art of language."
- 00:03 #Books/The Brothers Karamazov People who deceive themselves and believe their own lies will reach a point where they cannot distinguish the truth from themselves or from their surroundings.
- 2022-04-03
- 16:42 #quote Feng Zikai: Often, happiness lies in the small things, and there should be something beyond the words.
- 10:19 Besides sincerity, what else does a person seek in life? Realize your potential, and don't waste your energy shaping a self-image that has no substance. Shaping a self-image is unreal, it will waste your precious energy.──Image or persona is the evaluation of others, external and illusory, leave your energy for important things.
- 09:51 The quality of information in the Internet age is becoming polarized. The average quality of information is getting worse, but the highest quality information you can find online is getting better. It's like a market with a wide variety of goods, which is not good for ordinary consumers because they don't know how to choose from a wide range of goods; but it is very beneficial for high-level consumers because they can find the goods that best meet their needs.──The Paradox of Abundance
- 2022-04-02
- 23:20 #Books/The Artist of Life/Chapter 5 Psychology and Kung Fu Anyway, the best way to learn is not by collecting information and simply arranging it. Learning is a process of discovery, revealing the essence that exists within us.
- 2022-04-01
- 23:03 #Books/Talking about Beauty/Imaginative Thinking and the Ideational Nature of Art Works of art should have reason, reason is not the concept of things, but the essence of things or the tendency of objective situations to develop. The tendency mentioned here is not subjective, but naturally revealed. It's like drinking saltwater, it's salty, it's not meant to be salty.