1. Past Attempts In the post Without Tags, No One Can Recall You, I argued that in a homogeneous group the individual becomes background noise, while tags become effective information. In the image below, it is hard for us to remember any particular person, yet very easy to find someone through the A, B, C, D, E tags.

1. Drawing the Heavy Sword, Challenging the World Since 1840, China endured more than a century of humiliation; yet starting in 1978, it took only a little over forty years to turn from a poor and weak great power into a wealthy and strong one. This is a manifestation of a nation’s resilience and wisdom.

1. Little Money, Lots of Work, and Everyone Pushes You Around The operations department is a cost center. There is a phrase for it: cost optimization. When a CXO sees how low machine utilization is, they think about cutting machines — spend as little as possible — and that means more work for operations.

Recently quite a few teammates have left, and we are fairly short-staffed. I have interviewed nearly ten candidates one after another; the first-round pass rate is around 50%, and there is still no confirmed HC. 1. Preparation Collecting resumes. Posts, email announcements, WeChat Moments, and job boards are all sources

1. Thought Drives Behavior Thought drives behavior, and behavior produces results. How we treat people, handle things, and approach affairs all come from culture, and they do not leap forward just because technology advances rapidly. The Chinese nation, with its long history, has accumulated remarkably resilient intellectual wisdom. Dynasties rose and fell, regimes changed, and none of it could bring her down.