Posts
285 posts · 2007 – 2026
2026
2025
Starting to Attend Church Prayer Meetings
07.31
Why I Keep Doing Woodwork, Even Though It's Costly, Tiring, and Time-consuming
04.14
Designers Shouldn't Make Passive Compromises
04.11
Christian Faith and Stock Investment
04.10
Feeling Sick
04.09
Chatting About Safety Margin
04.08
Pop Music and Hymns
04.07
My Son Anran
04.05
The Tension Between Faith and Design: Reflections on Being Tough
04.04
Why Fishing Captivates Me
04.03
Pollen Allergy
04.02
Reflecting on My Faith
04.01
2024
Opening Up
12.11
2024 Gratitude List
12.04
In a Low
11.21
A $550 Email Win
11.04
Design, Fishing, Woodworking
10.30
Moving to Dallas
08.27
God's Pace
08.01
Stop Signs in America
07.17
On Design: Users Missed This Feature?
07.10
Five Years as a Total Newbie in U.S. Stock Investing
07.08
Picking Up the Pen Again
07.08
2023
2022
Things I'm Thankful for in 2022
12.04
Thoughts Triggered by My Green Card
10.28
54 Days in America and Catching COVID: A Former Shanghainese's Experience
10.04
Demolition of the Family Home
10.01
Starting Life's Second Half in a New Time Zone
09.04
Human Pride vs God's Glory
04.05
Book Review: 'The Power of Reading'
03.25
A Brief Review of 'Qin System's Two Thousand Years'
03.21
Talking About Lure Fishing
03.19
2021
2021 Gratitude List
11.26
Foreign Pumpkin
11.06
Talking About Learning English
08.15
Changsha
07.10
Make the Best Use of Time, the Days Are Evil
05.13
Building for Eternity
05.07
A Shift in Perspective
05.05
What Will You Get?
04.28
Decrease into His Purpose
03.24
The Master Assizes
03.16
Reading 'Weakness is the Way: Life with God'
03.10
Is He Really My Lord?
03.05
The Mission That Won't Let Go
03.03
Have You Felt The Hurt of The Lord?
03.02
The Determination to Serve
02.23
The Initiative Against Dreaming
02.20
The Power to Tackle Drudgery
02.18
The Initiative Against Despair
02.18
Has Your Imagination of God Dwindled?
02.10
Is Your Spirit Exhausted?
02.09
Are You Ready to Pour Yourself Out for Others?
02.05
Seen as the Scum of the Earth
02.03
The Urgency of the Call
02.01
God's Calling
02.01
My Unbelievable Ignorance
01.28
It's Unbelievable How I Persecute Jesus
01.27
Be anxious for nothing
01.27
Look Again and Consecrate
01.25
Leave Room for God
01.24
Transformed by Beholding
01.23
What Am I Looking Up To?
01.21
What Does God Remember?
01.21
Are You Fresh for Everything?
01.19
Darkness and Vision
01.18
It's the Lord!
01.17
Do You Walk in White?
01.15
Called by God
01.13
Have You Ever Been Alone with God? (Part 2)
01.12
Have You Ever Been Alone with God?
01.11
Obeying God May Cost Others
01.10
Seeking God's Reflection
01.09
Is My Sacrifice Alive?
01.07
Intimacy with Jesus
01.06
Worship
01.06
The Power of Life That Came Later
01.05
2020
On Kids Learning to Draw
12.24
Buying Stocks Means Buying Companies
11.10
Interviewing My Parents
11.04
Reading 'Value Investing and China' - Part 1
10.23
Zhou and Sha
10.22
A Two-Day Cold War With My 10-Year-Old Daughter
10.21
An Experience of Being Blackmailed by a Hacker
10.12
If Parents Applied the Same Tough Standards to Themselves as They Do to Their Kids...
09.22
Should Young People Learn About Investing? Musings of a Novice
09.20
Starting a Design Studio: What You Need to Know
09.16
Remembering Principal Yang Dongfu
09.15
Survival Guide for Moms: How to Avoid Morning Madness When the Kids Go to School
09.09
On Children's Education: Mission, Passion, Knowledge
09.07
My Blog's New Name: Diff's Sojourner's Diary
09.05
4th Grade Parent-Teacher Meeting with Linda
08.19
How an Angry Youth Survives
08.18
What to Do If Your Child Gets Lost in the Subway? Our Scary Experience
08.10
Reading Notes: Boss, No One's Buying This Design!
07.23
Musings from 2020.07.18
07.18
Bought an Expensive Ergonomic Chair: Herman Miller Aeron
07.04
On Design Decisions – A Note to My Boss
07.02
My Journey with Liulishuo: Insights from Employee #7 and Former Design Director
05.28
Middle-Aged Design Director's Struggles: Keep Up the Practice
04.17
How an Introverted Ex-Design Director Improved His Speaking Skills
04.13
How to Conduct a Successful Design Training
04.09
Don't Compromise Easily
04.08
Remembering My Art Teacher Chen Jingyu
04.06
On Death
04.06
Love and Marriage
04.02
Quarter of the Year Gone
03.31
Graphic Design Is True Love (Part 1)
03.30
Rhythm
03.27
Starting a Design Studio?
03.26
Friends and Knocking on Doors
03.25
Writing a Diary
03.23
2019
2016
2012
2011
Why Is Faith So Hard?
12.06
User Mindset
12.01
Stamped
11.30
God's Grace—My Nose
11.22
Fix for Code Sign Error: Provisioning Profile XXXX Can't Be Found
11.21
Design Perspective
11.10
Optimism
11.08
Recent Photo
11.03
Feeling of Happiness
10.31
Giving Thanks to God
10.26
Simplicity
10.24
Thoughts on Community
10.19
The Essence of Entrepreneurship
10.18
Simple
10.18
Third Quarter 2011
09.26
Personal Breakthrough
09.18
Stop Making Casual Decisions
06.29
Make Creativity Worthless
06.29
Advantage
06.27
Berry & Cherry
06.08
Dior
05.12
The Tragic Nail
05.12
Eather Drinking Yogurt
04.23
Need for Change
03.08
Workspace
02.14
On Thinking
02.12
A New Routine After Eleven Years
01.20
Thoughts from Cherries and Strawberries
01.19
Two Insights
01.10
Planting a Seed
01.07
Is Focus Fatal?
01.06
2010
High Jun's Speech at Ogilvy Training
12.17
Learning Two Truths
12.13
Obstacles to Prayer
12.09
Design and Art Are No Longer My Top Priority
12.06
Ask Less of Life
12.03
Calming Down
11.12
Some Principles
11.10
Country Woman
10.29
Grandpa and the Stroke
10.29
Taking the Train
10.29
My Foggy Mind
10.29
What I Focus On
10.20
Waking Up at 5:30 AM
10.20
True Faith
10.07
Trust Your Gut
10.03
Forget What Lies Behind, Strive Toward What Lies Ahead
09.27
Design and Aesthetics
09.13
Busy, Joy, Happiness
09.12
Helpless
09.12
Eather Eating
08.10
About Time
08.05
What's the Most Important and Challenging Part for a Designer?
07.21
4:06 AM
06.25
Visual Performance & Visual Design
06.16
Dieter Rams' Ten Principles for Good Design
06.15
Shocking Icebreaker
06.15
The Greatest Designer
06.07
Design Principles from Apple
05.31
Humility Comes Before Honor
05.19
Recent Happenings
05.18
What to Write?
05.11
Me
02.07
Love
02.05
Starting Craft Projects
02.04
Imagination
02.02
Planning
01.27
Life Attitude
01.23
Our Daughter, Eather
01.16
2009
What to Do
12.29
Who Can Be Against Us?
12.21
Conversation with Yi
12.16
Self-Control
12.16
Old and Alive
12.15
Parents
11.26
Hulitu-Dark
11.20
True Sounds Are Rarely Heard, True Forms Are Invisible
11.20
A Few Thoughts
11.20
Graphic Design Techniques
11.11
The Design Process
11.10
Thank God
11.10
Prayers of the Saints
10.23
Life Without Limbs
09.28
Email from CJ
09.23
Little Chubby
09.20
2U Release
09.10
Ya-Jing
08.19
Learning GTD
07.31
The Cost
07.30
Practice
07.29
Being a Designer
07.08
Carrot Spacecraft HT 07
06.21
Practice Writing
06.18
Fox-Rabbit
05.30
Life Lately
05.30
Honeymoon
04.26
April 18 Hangzhou Wedding
04.14
Wedding Photos
04.08
Just Married!
03.18
Daughter
02.20
New Year's Notes
01.19
On Weddings
01.06
My Rebekah
01.05
2008
Goodbye, Hangzhou
12.31
Late Autumn
12.02
Taking a Step Forward
08.17
Teach Us to Number Our Days That We May Gain a Heart of Wisdom
06.25
Heavy Rain
06.23
I'm Hurt, But...
06.14
Night Ride Around West Lake 0529
05.31
Dream 0531
05.31
Faith and Life's Meaning
05.23
Some Principles
05.12
Hangzhou Botanical Garden
04.30
Prayer and Life
04.09
Baptism
04.07
Just Do It When You Think of It
04.02
Evening Talks with Friends
03.28
Squirrels, Trees, and Monsters from the Past
03.21
Contentment in the Lord
03.10
Let Me Be Cruel This Once
03.08
Chinese New Year 08
02.14
Snow in Hangzhou
01.26
2007
01.12
Stay Hungry Stay Foolish
01.08
About Simplicity
01.08