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Every post, newest first. Reading notes are marked Digest; see just those.全部文章，新的在前。阅读笔记标了出来，也可以只看阅读笔记。

2026

  1. Conway's law: who gets to finish the work?康威定律：谁能把一件事做完？

    AI can change the cost of implementation without automatically removing coordination or responsibility. Conway's law shows up in agent architectures too, leaving a practical question about which boundaries to keep.AI 可以改变实现成本，却不会自动消除协调和责任。康威定律也会出现在 agent 架构里。哪些边界可以删，哪些仍然有用，得重新算一遍。

  2. When Nobody's Watching没人看着的时候

    My high school principal once talked about shendu, being careful when you're alone. Back then, nobody watching meant TV instead of homework. Now the bar is my own, and nobody watching can mean I'm still working at 3 a.m.高中校长讲过“慎独”。那时候家里没大人，我就开电视；现在 bar 是自己定的，没人看着的时候，我反而还在干活。

  3. Helping others and yourself渡人渡己

    Mirrors aren't just for outfit checks. Helping others can also help me check my own judgment and stay aligned with what matters to me, while still taking care of myself.照镜子不只是 outfit check。帮别人时，也能回头看看自己的言行和内心是不是一致。我想照顾好自己，也继续做帮得上的事。

  4. What do I miss?我怀念什么

    A Snoopy picture asks what you miss. For me it's the dial-up years, when the internet opened up a whole new world. AI feels a lot like that again, and this time I want to make the most of it while it's happening.一张史努比的图问：你怀念什么？我怀念的是拨号上网那几年，世界一下子打开了。现在 AI 给我的感觉很像，这回我想趁它还在发生，好好用上。

  5. The hour I don't want to give up舍不得的那一小时

    Some of my best work happens after I'm supposed to have stopped. I think it's mostly the short loop of working alone with AI, and I want to see if I can get that during the day too.我一天里干得最顺的，常常是下班后那一两个小时。想了想，主要是因为能一个人跟 AI 把事情做下去，回路短，正反馈强。那能不能挪到白天？

  6. Meditations: Still Practicing读《沉思录》：还得接着练

    Marcus Aurelius had to talk himself out of bed, more than once. I like Stoicism because it treats wisdom as something you practice, forget, and come back to.马可·奥勒留也得劝自己起床，还不止一次。我喜欢斯多葛，就是因为它承认道理会忘，忘了就回来接着练。

  7. The hawk-dove game: who pays for the fight?鹰鸽博弈：谁在买单

    A conflict can reward the person who starts it while charging everyone else. Reading the hawk-dove game through everyday boundaries, work priorities, and the rules that decide who pays.有些冲突，发起的人拿到好处，代价却落在别人身上。从鹰鸽博弈出发，想想生活中的退让、工作中的边界，以及哪些规则值得改。

  8. Digest阅读笔记

    48 Reflections at $100M ARR — Yuanming Hu一亿美金 ARR，48 条反思 — 胡渊鸣

    Meshy's founder on what he learned between $80M and $100M ARR, from putting a price on his own hour to why AI makes fundamentals matter more.Meshy 创始人胡渊鸣在 ARR 从 8000 万涨到一亿美金时写下 48 条反思，从给自己的时间标价，讲到 AI 为什么让基本功更值钱。

  9. Digest阅读笔记

    Being More Ambitious with AI更大胆地用 AI

    Felix Rieseberg on asking AI for better outcomes, using professional methods, and borrowing from other fields, with an outside judge for the result.Felix Rieseberg 讲怎样把 AI 用得更大胆：把任务追到最终目标，用专业方法做深，再借其他领域的本事。结果交给外部标准检验。

  10. Order Is a Ticket to Freedom“秩序”不是枷锁，而是通往自由的通票

    To step back from the world, I first have to take part in it. Order helps me make that room, provided I know when to stop organizing.想要出世，要先入世。我愿意建立秩序，也想在现实里留一点余地，不把自由推迟到一切都完美的那一天。

  11. Attention Is All You Need注意力，才是稀缺品

    GTD, timeboxing, and Personal Kanban help with different parts of the same problem: giving something enough attention to finish it.GTD、时间盒和个人看板，分别帮忙处理惦记、安排和同时开工太多的问题。也得给没安排的生活留点位置。

  12. Young, With a Little Hindsight还年轻，也懂一点了

    You can't have youth and understand it at the same time, but at 35 you can guess what you'll miss, and being a beginner again gets close.青春和对青春的感悟没法同时拥有，但 35 岁可以先猜猜以后会想念什么，或者找件新事从头学起。

  13. Keep the Passion, Bring an Answer保持热情，带着答案来

    A mentor's two pieces of advice: don't let experience talk you out of caring, and bring a conclusion instead of a menu of options.一位 mentor 给的两条建议：别让经验把热情磨没了，提问题时也把自己的结论带上。

  14. Already on the Way重新上路

  15. You Don't Discover Yourself. You Compile Yourself.你不是在找自己，是在写自己

    Your self-image works like a servo that steers you back to who you think you are, and only doing the new thing moves the target.“我不是那种人”其实是你给自己设的目标：大脑像伺服一样把你拽回去，想改只能靠去做。

  16. Drag Your Tail in the Mud做一只泥里的乌龟

    FIRE read as failure studies in disguise, plus two self-checks I actually use: backlog or grievance every week, turtle or relic every year.FIRE 是包装成成功学的失败学：走之前先看手里是 backlog 还是怨气，每年再问，自己过得更自在了，还是只是履历更好看了。

  17. Compound Interest: One Secret, Four Worlds复利：四个领域的同一个秘密

    Stocks, learning, mental models and raising a kid run on the same compound equation, and the hard part in each is keeping r above zero.股市、学习、心智模型、养孩子，用的是同一条复利公式，难的都是别让 r 归零。

  18. Putting a Custom Domain on GitHub Pages: Six Gotchas给 GitHub Pages 配自定义域名（Cloudflare）：六个坑

    A five-minute domain setup that took forty-five: GitHub Pages plus Cloudflare DNS, and six gotchas from cert deadlocks to blocked new domains.给 GitHub Pages 配自定义域名，以为五分钟搞定，结果折腾了四十五分钟：证书死锁、重定向循环、新域名被屏蔽。

  19. The Curse of Possibility可能性的诅咒

    Why AI tools leave people more tired: attention is a fixed pipe, each new possibility is another valve, and all you control is how many you open.AI 让什么都变得可以做，人却更累了：注意力这根管子就那么粗，能做的越多，越得学会不做。

  20. The Journey Is the Scripture踏上取经路，比取到真经更重要

    Zhang Xue raced to find the gaps and Jiaozi animated on his mother's pension: nobody starts ready, and the trials on the road are the scripture.张雪先上赛道再找差距，饺子靠母亲的退休金做动画：没人是准备好了才出发的，路上那八十一难就是真经。

  21. Hype, Trends, and the Inner Anchor热点、趋势与本心

    WeWork chased hype, Kodak looked away from a trend it had invented, and NVIDIA held its ground on GPUs for thirty years until AI arrived.钱一撤就没的是热点，撤了还在的是趋势，难的是一边守住本心一边拥抱变化。

  22. Give Agents Libraries, Not Instructions给 Agent 库，而非指令

    Why helper scripts in a skill folder beat repeated instructions, and how CLI-Anything takes the idea to whole desktop apps.同样的指令别给 agent 写第二遍，做成脚本库放进 skill，让它专心做组合。

  23. From Executor to Steersman从执行者到舵手

    From Watt's governor to Kubernetes to AI harnesses, each new control layer moves people from doing the work to designing the feedback loop.从瓦特调速器到 Kubernetes 再到 AI harness，每多一层控制，人就从划桨的变成掌舵的。

  24. Constraint Design Is the Meta-Skill约束设计是元技能

    Why picking a few well-placed constraints beats listing every behavior, from a self-discovering topology map to Claude skills.与其穷举想要的每种行为，不如挑几个约束放对地方，剩下的让系统自己找。

  25. Digest阅读笔记

    Agentic Engineering Patterns — Simon WillisonAI 代理工程实战模式 — Simon Willison

    Simon Willison on coding agents: code got cheap but good code didn't, so hoard working examples, use red/green TDD and run the tests first.Simon Willison 讲 agent 编程：代码便宜了，好代码可没便宜，所以先跑测试、囤能跑的例子。

  26. Digest阅读笔记

    Protecting Your Prefrontal Cortex保护你的前额叶皮层

    Stress, short sleep and sitting wear down the prefrontal cortex, exercise and sleep protect it, and constant AI back-and-forth drains it too.慢性压力、缺觉、久坐都在伤前额叶，运动和睡眠最能护住它；跟 AI 高频来回切换，也是在消耗它。

  27. Rediscovering Curiosity After a Decade重拾好奇心

    Years of getting efficient narrowed my curiosity, until tinkering with AI made me a beginner again.这些年光顾着效率，好奇心慢慢淡了，直到折腾 AI 又让我当回了初学者。