[Guanglin's Weekly Diary] #009: Words are the reference of words.

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["Listen while watching" - Tian Ge

Tian Ge

Wa Yina

The live performance recommended in the third episode of Le Xia 3 was very impressive. Wa Yina's hoe and leaves were stunning. The director followed along and planted seedlings, which was very funny. After the performance, the interviewee said that ten years ago, he used to work as a designer but couldn't continue, so he returned to the village to farm and settled in Bengbu. There are many good bands and songs in this episode, but I think this one is worth recommending.

banner01-Memorable Moments

Gradually entering autumn

Recently, it has been secretly raining at night in Beijing, and it has started to cool down when going out in the morning. It's autumn!

Organized week

Because work was not so busy this week, I took the opportunity to organize the materials I collected during my design work. This will make it more efficient for me to find inspiration in the future. After organizing, I had a collection of 10,000 images. However, I had a doubt during the classification process, so I asked GPT: "As a designer, should I categorize inspiration materials based on industry type or style?"

GPT quickly replied: "In graphic design, the classification of inspiration materials in the early stage can be based on personal workflow and preferences. Whether it is categorizing styles based on industry types or categorizing industry types based on styles, each has its own advantages and applicable situations.

The advantage of categorizing styles based on industry types is... (omitted due to excessive word count)

The advantage of categorizing industry types based on styles is...

In the end, the choice of classification method depends on your personal work style and goals. You can choose according to your needs and project requirements, or even combine both classification methods for better organization and management of inspiration materials."

Well, that's a good answer. AI can sometimes be more objective. So, when organizing, I chose to include both. I created folders for both industry and style, and if there are similar materials, I added industry or style tags to facilitate filtering. I'm so smart.

Received the first order on Xiaohongshu

In June, I decided to share some of my favorite apps or productivity tools on my Xiaohongshu account, but so far, I have only published four articles (lol). I have less than 100 followers. But unexpectedly, this week, a browser app messaged me asking if I would like to do promotion. Although the payment is based on the number of followers, which is almost negligible, I found it interesting. It turns out that Xiaohongshu is a platform that is friendly to creators. I also think this is a random event, and it's good to have it or not. It's like a reminder for me to update:)

Night chat with a friend

A friend came to Beijing on a business trip this week. We made an appointment to chat offline tonight. After dinner, we went to a nearby internet cafe to play games and continue our chat. I haven't been to an internet cafe for seven or eight years, so it's quite novel. And the subsequent conversation was as usual, with words crossing each other, like a reference point for each other, making everything clearer.

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Everything is Cyclical #

Everything is cyclical, and the most easily overlooked aspect of cyclical nature is that it doesn't need external force to push it in the opposite direction. Becoming big is enough to make you small without the need for anyone or anything to push you.

We have learned from history that complete victory is never the expected outcome of winners - a good and lasting peace. Because victory always sows the seeds of new wars, because victory breeds the desire for revenge and retribution among the defeated, because victory nurtures new opponents.

Perhaps this is the cycle: starting with a dream, achieving that dream, and then something that was once considered a dream becomes a new baseline, and the gaze of your ambition shifts to the next dream. Insufficiency, effort, success. Insufficiency, effort, success. Everything is cyclical.

It seems that everything has an underlying balance. Recently, I listened to a podcast by Xie Yin, and one sentence impressed me: "everything has a price." Everything comes with a cost. People who seem powerful, rich, or happy on the surface also have something they have sacrificed behind the scenes.

Learning to be Healthy at 150 - An Incomplete Guide to Optimizing Human Systems #

In the past few months, I happened to come across a podcast where Rich Roll interviewed Andrew Huberman on YouTube. It introduced the neuroscience principles and "tools" that can be used to improve our daily work and learning performance, opening a new world for me. I then followed several episodes of Huberman's own podcast, learning about various aspects related to our daily life, health, learning, work, and exercise. The biggest difference between this and many other "health" articles and videos is that Huberman is a neuroscience professor at Stanford. The content he talks about is based on high-quality, peer-reviewed scientific research. He explains the experiments and conclusions in great detail and provides many practical suggestions.

Through this series of learning, I gradually feel like I have learned about the "composition and operating principles" of various human aspects. Through a series of tools and practices, we can also "optimize" our own human systems like optimizing software programs.

The Definition of Happiness and the Meaning of Life #

They then discussed what the definition of happiness is.

Alan believes that instead of answering this question directly, it is more direct to think about what triggers this question.

He believes that there must be a question behind it that triggers us to explore the definition of happiness. And the underlying reason is the key. Defining what happiness is will not solve the underlying problem. For example, if the definition of happiness is dopamine, knowing this definition will not solve the original reason for wanting to define happiness.

Perhaps what we really need to do is not to find the definition of happiness, but to find out why we want to start exploring the definition of happiness, and then think about how to make ourselves no longer explore what happiness is from life.

AiTa - AI-generated celebrity voices #

Input text and you can generate voices of existing celebrity models. It really sounds quite similar if you don't listen carefully.

Dollar Street - Video showing income disparities in families #

What are the differences in families with different incomes? The Gapminder team visited hundreds of families in various countries (I also saw families from China in it). Through video photos taken in daily life, you can clearly see how income differences affect various aspects of people's daily lives.

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Jike: @Yan Guanglin

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Of course, likes and comments are welcome to encourage me.

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