Archive - Weekly I/O

25 Things I Learned

Rumination #9: Storytelling & Writing, Psychology & Cognitive Science, Culture & Social Dynamics, Strategy & Decision-Making, Memory & Learning

Aug 10 •

How to know if you have good taste, When creation is too easy, Don't invest in marketing before onboarding

Weekly I/O #110: Deploy Taste, Gap between Creation and Meaning, Startup Growth Priorities, Unconscious Competence, Teach Yearning before Skill

Aug 3 •

July 2025

The goal of life, How to understand emotion, Four elements of storytelling

Weekly I/O #109: Excited about Work and Home, Three Processing Levels of Emotion and Behavior, Four Elements of Storytelling, Confidence is Status…

Jul 27 •

What designers often neglect, What makes an entertainment interesting, Seeing with new eyes

Weekly I/O #108: Venue in Product Design, Three Factors in Entertainment Experience, New Eyes not Lands, Give Reason to Listen, Intensity is Price of…

Jul 20 •

Bomb Under the Table, Why people play games, What makes building beloved

Bomb Under the Table Theory, Bartle Taxonomy of Player Types, Age and Adaptivity for Building, Omnibus of Art, Perfect Image with Fuzzy Concept

Jul 13 •

Why we remember, Hidden rules of knowledge, HALT when making decisions

Weekly I/O #106: Predicted Utility and Memory Fidelity, Foucault and Hidden Rules of Knowledge, HALT When Making Decisions, Art is like Hair, Books are…

Jul 6 •

June 2025

Seven stages of achieving goals, Psychology in good design, Working hard is a skill

Weekly I/O #105: Seven Stages of Action Cycle, Six Psychological Concepts in Design, Working Hard is Skill, Distributed Cognition, Four Factors for Fair…

Jun 29 •

Is Duolingo fun or effective, What's the will to think, How to have a deep understanding

Weekly I/O #104: Duolingo Prioritizes Engagement, The Will to Think, Cultivate Deep Understanding, Say the Thing, Trade Dream for Feedback

Jun 21 •

What's taste in science, Why there are tragedies, Left-brained thinker is a myth

Weekly I/O #103: Jim Simons on Taste, Best Possible Worlds, Left-Brain Learning Myth, Procrastination and Head-Heart-Hand, Cognitive Scripts

Jun 16 •

Write with your ears instead of eyes, Programming is not about code, Why Palantir only has one title for all engineers

Weekly I/O #102: Write with Ears not Eyes, Programming as Theory Building, Only One Title for Engineers, Growth Imperative, Love and Work

Jun 8 •

How TikTok solved the chicken and egg problem, What makes a place feel "just right", Making product as a form of love

Weekly I/O #101: Build TikTok like New Country, The Quality Cannot be Named, Product as Love for Human Species, 4X in Games, Munger on Opportunity Cost

Jun 1 •

May 2025

50 Things I Learned: Culture, Career, Psychology, Magic and more

Rumination #8: Culture, Psychology, Career, Leadership, Marketing, Life Tips, Nature, Health, Knowledge, Magic

May 24 •

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