Confessions of a researchaholic

2015-04-14

To my future self

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 10:01 am
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Even if you are 88 years old with terminal cancer lying in the middle of the Gobi desert while being pointed at by an AK47, you can still overcome every obstacle just like we always do.

That is all you need to remember.

2015-03-25

Kowtow

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 10:04 am
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If you are a university professor and you boast on social networks about sending your students to other schools for higher degrees, you are essentially acknowledging that you (and your school) are not as good.

2015-03-07

Why living forever is probably a bad idea

Filed under: Imaginary — liyiwei @ 11:51 am
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Even if under optimal physical, mental, and social status:

. It will eventually become very boring.

. One cannot participate in evolution and thus becomes inferior (barring technology like dynamic genetic splicing).

. If the universe eventually ends it will drag you down to some unknown horrible state.

Reincarnation, or some form of jumping between different intelligent species, seems much more fun.
🙂

2015-02-11

Jeff Bezos shares his best advice to entrepreneurs

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 11:11 am
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The whole article can be found here, but gist is to do what you really love.
It is that simple, repeated elsewhere, and applicable to different professions.

2014-12-31

Frame of motivation

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 6:55 pm
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As a game of self-motivation, I used to frame and hang rejection letters on the wall and remove them only after getting even.

Today while cleaning my office I found the very last one sitting in a corner. Looking at it feels like a guy bumping into his high school crush who rejected him years ago but now appears totally fat and ugly.

With amused satisfaction, I threw the letter away but kept the frame. Time to fill it with another motivation.

2014-12-11

Street credit

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 6:55 pm
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Coauthors revealed a secret in a recent paper that gave us all street credits.
:v
(It is in plain sight for anyone to see, so I won’t tell.)

2014-12-08

Consequences of not having significant impacts

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 7:43 pm
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活得像一句廢話

2014-11-23

Why I never go to class reunions

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 8:11 pm
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I want to remember all of you as innocent, beautiful, and hopeful.

2014-07-19

Revelation for this day

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 3:44 pm
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“A man is measured by the size of things that anger him.” – Geof Greenleaf

一個人的格局是由他在乎事情的大小來衡量

Thank you!

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