Tan Mit
Notes on programming, how a system gets put together, and the things outside work that I want to think through.
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Being young is for finding out who you are, daring to do the work, and building the skill and relationships that let you step onto a chance instead of waiting to be picked.
Technology, AI, programming, and work2 min read
These three ideas show up everywhere in algorithm problems. The point is not to memorize the template. It is to see what information you have to keep, and why the answer stays correct as the window moves.
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Boxing is older than the modern rulebook. The useful part is not the highlight reel. It is discipline, a plan, staying calm, and what you do after you lose.
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A team can merge a lot of pull requests and still release slowly, because each person is holding a different picture of the system. Design and planning are how those pictures become one.
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Han Xin crawled between a stranger's legs in the market, became the general who won Liu Bang an empire, and was killed by the dynasty he helped build. Talent and ambition still lost to how people felt about him.
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From afternoons of marbles and hopscotch to a generation raised on TikTok and YouTube: what slipped, and what is still worth keeping of a childhood spent with other people.
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Teppi is not impressive at the start. The story is about staying with the practice after you fail, not about winning the first match.
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Watched as a child, Journey to the West is magic and monsters. Watched as an adult, the pilgrimage is about ego, patience, a group that does not fit, and the person you cannot leave behind.
Finance, investing, and business1 min read
Some people make a lot of money in forex, CFDs, or other derivatives and then lose almost all of it because they cannot stop. Ambition and greed are separated by whether you can leave.
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Some women care, forgive, and stay until their sacrifice looks like the normal weather of the house. This is about noticing that, and about love that does not require someone to go numb.
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Not every AI feature should be a chat box. When the product has to classify and decide quickly, a decisions API and a rule engine are often faster, cheaper, and easier to trust than a model that talks.
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A coding agent can finish a feature before the coffee cools. The debt shows up when someone has to change it. Speed is real. So is the cost of code nobody can explain.
Finance, investing, and business1 min read
Stocks, gold, forex, and bitcoin get the attention. Corn, coffee, silver, and crude oil are becoming tradable here too. That can be an opportunity, and it can be a market you do not understand yet.
Technology, AI, programming, and work1 min read
Children like playing games. Scratch lets them make one: a character, a puzzle, and the bugs they have to think their way out of. The point is the making, not a perfect game.
English, education, and programming for children1 min read
You can know the grammar and thousands of words and still freeze when a foreigner talks to you. The problem is often how the language was practiced, not a lack of talent.
Technology, AI, programming, and work2 min read
A model can draft an API, a fix, or a small app from a description. If typing speed stops being the advantage, the developer is paid for judgment: what to build, what to refuse, and what has to stay true.
