I had started a "52 Vis" initiative back in 2016 to encourage folks to get practice making visualizations since that's the only way to get better at virtually anything. Life got crazy, 52 Vis fell to the wayside and now there are more visible al…

In every triumph, there's a lot of try. 每个胜利背后都有许多尝试. There's a lot of try behind every success, and there's as well a lot of try behind some failure. And the later will be much more disappointed, but the usual condition is that I failed once, then I…

Of all the tribulations in this world, boredom is the one most hard to bear. 所有的苦难中,无聊是最难以忍受的. When you feel bored, you may fail to focus on things you desire and you will easily get tired. Because boredom often stimulates a form of anxiety and stres…

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. 始终面朝阳光,我们就不会看到黑暗. I love sunshine, but if it is shrouded in darkness, I still can keep moving forward in fear instead of just fearing. Life can never avoid disappointments and sadness, som…

People always want to lead an active life, and is not it? 人们总要乐观生活,不是吗? Be active, and walk towards things you want to touch. Even if it is far away from the current position we are in, if we can keep moving toward it, we will get closer and closer t…

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. 坚持不是一个长跑,她是很多一个接一个的短跑. Today I want to compile the tangram-es library for my system and try to run its examples. After working on the compilation for just thirty minutes, I fi…

Only someone who is well-prepared has the opportunity to improvise. 只有准备充分的人才能够尽兴表演. From the first day I joined this department, I found to be qualified for the job requires kinds of abilities that I hadn't had yet, for example, the ability to effec…

If you don't know where you are going, you might not get there. 如果你不知道自己要去哪里,你可能永远到不了那里. The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. 完成一个任务的奖励是完成下一个任务的动力. From George Eliot.…

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow. 我们教会人们如何记忆,却从来不教他们如何成长. Without practising the knowledge we have learned from books and from other's example, we never can transform those knowledge into ours, and they may have little…

We both look up at the same stars, yet we see such different things. 我们仰望同一片星空,却看见了不同的事物. Looking up at the stars, some may think it is due to the darkness that we can see the stars, whereas some think it is due to the stars that make the night more…