Archive - Field Notes

Keeping the Moore's Law alive

The Moore's Law turns a forecast into a coordination mechanism for the global chip industry. Technological shifts are rarely just about engineering…

Jul 1 •

March 2025

Time travel to the making of Prince of Persia

I haven’t played video games since middle school or actively followed the gaming industry, but the book The Making of Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner…

Mar 16 •

February 2025

Building Singapore from scratch

Reading notes: From Third World to First

Feb 7 •

October 2024

悉达多的河流

Reading notes on Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha

Oct 6, 2024 •

August 2024

The world as reinforcing cycles

Why and how do nations rise and decline over 1,500 years? This essay explores Dalio's approach for uncovering long-term insights that can guide our…

Aug 20, 2024 •

June 2024

巴黎 French kaleidoscope

五月和家人在法国休假，重游了巴黎和南法。上次来已经是六年前了，在加州待久了有时候视野和审美会变得局限，巴黎是一个特别尊重美和人文的城市，很喜欢巴黎人自由、优雅、松弛的精神面貌。 01 巴黎的设计风貌…

Jun 20, 2024 •

May 2024

What makes a great park?

Why are some parks so lively and popular, while some are so lonely and even unsafe?

May 4, 2024 •

March 2024

HCI Paper Review: AI Alignment in the Design of Interactive AI

In this blog post, I’ll share my review notes for the paper AI Alignment in the Design of Interactive AI: Specification Alignment, Process Alignment…

Mar 3, 2024 •

January 2024

Negotiation theory and human agency

Negotiation has been a term I mostly associated with business or politics in the past, involving intense debates and advocating for the interests of…

Jan 27, 2024 •

日本设计随笔

年末在日本度假，旅途中一路都感受着独特的日式设计美学，很钦佩这种愿意用心、耐心把所有事情考虑到极致的理念。无论是宏大的建筑景观还是料理食器的每一处细节，都能感受到背后的设计哲学：尊重自然，返璞归真，现代与传统的巧妙融合。

Jan 4, 2024 •

November 2023

Elon Musk's production philosophy

Reading notes from the biography Elon Musk, by Walter Isaacson.

Nov 26, 2023 •

September 2023

Finite and Infinite Games as Modern Analogies

I was first introduced to Finite and Infinite Games in 2016, a book by James P.

Sep 7, 2023 •

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