Engineers and programmers prefer the plain text format as it is ubiquitous and universal. In the past decades, as digital services become commodities, we have faced a variety of choices. The reality is too much to choose one with fear of compatibility and sustainability. Once upon a time, I saved my digital documents on a … Continue reading Lock-in Efforts
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Life Everlasting
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu It is one of the lessons on the principle of letting go. So often, we experience that things don't go and work as we planned. We should be flexible enough like water to handle anything that happens … Continue reading Life Everlasting
The Prison of the Mind
When you feel life is restless, what would you do? Can you calm it down? How can you control the state of life? Is your life happy or unhappy? How do we define the state of life? Who can decide it on earth? Sometimes we feel joy. At other times, we find it is hard. … Continue reading The Prison of the Mind
Contributions to Life
Reflecting on our contributions to this world, and life in general, the questions we commonly ask ourselves would be like: What do we do?What do we have? In the same way, we ask people around to know more about them. What do you do? What do you have? Our curiosity about humans is also on … Continue reading Contributions to Life
The Life of Job
I am right. You are wrong. We are right. They are wrong. Throughout human history, people have never stopped this kind of self-righteous arguments. On the positive side, it could be a constructive step to lead everyone to the right answer. If one can criticize another, that is the antithesis against the thesis, and both … Continue reading The Life of Job
The Word was with God, and the Word was God
Lao Tzu said, "The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth. The named is the mother of ten thousand things." We understand the world and the universe through a grid of language. It is definitely one of the valuable tools for ontology and epistemology. Only with this tool, we can ensure our existence and … Continue reading The Word was with God, and the Word was God
Hearing Roosters and Dogs in Distance
What could be the ideal number of people we can connect with? It is a tricky question. To answer this question, we have to clarify and define the meaning of connection. How about family members? How about close friends? How about acquaintances? Or, what could be the ideal number of people for an optimal organization? … Continue reading Hearing Roosters and Dogs in Distance
