English Essays
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When Knowledge Is No Longer Scarce, What Do Credentials Still Prove?
As AI and digital tools make it easier to acquire skills outside traditional education, formal qualifications no longer tell the whole story of what someone can actually do. Certificates will remain important, but they may increasingly become one signal among… Continue reading
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A Fake Smart Wristband Finally Helped Me Understand What It Means to “Poison” AI
A fabricated smart wristband helped me finally understand what “AI poisoning” can look like in practice: not hacking the system itself, but contaminating the information it relies on. The real danger begins when AI confidently turns repeated, professionally packaged false… Continue reading
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Twenty Years Later, I Finally Understood Why I Loved Milan Kundera So Much
Why is yuanfen, a Chinese concept about meaningful encounters and connections, so difficult to translate? Looking back at Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, I finally understood why I was drawn to his writing: he captured the delicate space… Continue reading
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Isn’t Parting a Kind of Outcome Too?
We often assume that a relationship only has a meaningful “outcome” if two people stay together. This essay asks whether meeting, sharing part of a life, changing each other, and eventually parting can also be a real kind of completion—even… Continue reading
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Why Can’t “Yuanfen” Be Translated into German?
This essay begins with a simple translation question: why does the Chinese word yuanfen never quite become Schicksal, “fate,” or “destiny” in another language? By looking at yuanfen, youyuan wufen, and a personal relationship from the past, it explores how… Continue reading
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We May Be Living Through the AI Version of 1890
This essay compares today’s AI transition to the spread of electricity around 1890, when a new technology gradually reshaped not just individual tools but entire systems of work and production. As AI takes over more standardized knowledge tasks, the people… Continue reading
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Maybe What Matters Most in Marriage Is How Much Room We Leave Each Other to Live
This essay reflects on how intimate relationships shape a person’s energy through the smallest everyday responses. A good relationship does not require two people to share every interest or agree on everything; sometimes what matters most is simply giving each… Continue reading
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Why Shouldn’t a Gift Be “Wasted”? Because Developing a Gift Is Not the Same as Forcing Someone to Succeed
This essay reflects on a simple but important question: why shouldn’t talent be “wasted,” and does developing talent always mean forcing someone to succeed? My answer is no. To help a child develop their gifts is not to demand fame… Continue reading
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I Put Off Cutting a Pineapple for Days. In the End, It Took Me Three Minutes.
This essay begins with something very small: putting off cutting a pineapple for days, only to discover that the actual task took just a few minutes. From there, it reflects on how easily we can make things feel overwhelming before… Continue reading
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Where Does Pain Come From? Using Aristotle’s “Four Causes” to Make Sense of Myself
This essay uses Aristotle’s Four Causes as a simple framework for looking more closely at emotional pain—what it is made of, the patterns it forms, what triggers it, and what it may be trying to protect. Understanding the causes does… Continue reading
