Sep
21
Option 5
Today, I made a bad situation worse (ie. I chose option 5 from my framework for
responding to bad decisions
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Jimmy Chen
Sep
20
Bookstore field trips: part 2
Today I gave myself a day off, so I went to what's supposedly the mecca for
books in
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Sep
19
My games of choice
Since yesterday, when I wrote about 剧本杀, I've been thinking about which games I
have chosen to play
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Sep
18
Jubensha
Today, I learned that an elaborate version of the classic "murder mystery" game
(剧本杀) is played by millions
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Sep
17
The Serenity Prayer
> "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to
change the things
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Sep
16
The enjoyment differential
Recently, due to the pandemic, there's been additional security in shopping
malls and at my office. The other
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Sep
15
Derivative vs. original ideas
The other day, I was listening to old music on the radio, and I realized that I
could guess the
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Sep
14
Location scouting
As part of a plan for opening a bookstore (or any business), it's probably a
good idea to
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Sep
13
Calvin and Hobbes
Recently, I rediscovered my favorite newspaper comic strip from when I was a
kid. Unlike many things from my childhood,
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Sep
12
Bookstore field trips: part 1
Last week, I visited two popular bookstores in Shanghai. On Tuesday, I went to
多抓鱼, an online platform for buying
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