YoungForest's blog

A romantic journey through Tang poetry, compassion, and criticism through the past, questioning the equation of criticism with hostility.

Notes on Liu Shen Lei Lei's humorous cross-reading of Jin Yong: heroes, minor characters, compassion, modern analogies, and satire through the jianghu.

A reading of Hou Hei Xue as enduring social satire about official rhetoric, human nature, and criticism of orthodoxy rather than a success manual.

Notes on accessible macroeconomic storytelling, hindsight-based explanations, and the danger of oversimplifying causality.

Notes on winning before fighting, knowing oneself, and waiting for the right moment—strategic ideas that extend beyond warfare.

A decade after first reading the trilogy, I reconsider its characters and my own shift from ruthless rationality toward human empathy.

An evidence-based look at market timing, diversification, housing, luck, and why steady investing compounds over time.

Notes on a biography that inspires through rockets and electric vehicles while raising doubts about extreme cost cutting, rapid testing, and human cost.

A journey from Greek philosophy and classical physics to loop quantum gravity, alongside a personal reflection on a childhood love of physics.

Rereading Programming Pearls after a decade, and finding durable engineering insight in algorithms, memory limits, disks, and simplicity.