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Summer thoughts

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Cheng-Wei Hu
Sep 01, 2025
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Hey friends, it's been a minute! I took some time off from writing to be present with family. And I have some news to share next week. Stay tuned.

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I recently visited Indonesia, Singapore, and Taiwan to spend time with family. Five years have passed since I last experienced the summer in Asia. Here are a few observations and fleeting thoughts:

Don't ask for more love. Learn to feel love. Instead of expecting love to be expressed the way you want to perceive it, learn to feel the love beneath their words and actions. It might not be obvious. But it's already there.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" isn't always right. Do unto others as they would want done to them. People value different things. Even MBTI has 16 types.

"You can just do things" isn't about agency but about how directly your actions lead to meaningful outcomes. Meta-planning is indirect. Doing is direct.

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