A small corner for the rest of it.
Marketing and automation notes sit alongside travel field notes, reading reflections, and the occasional opinion — filter by category or just scroll.
Why I annotate in the margin, not a separate doc
A note written where the disagreement happened survives. A note copied into a separate doc turns into a to-do list nobody does.
I stopped reading marketing books for takeaways
Why I read for frameworks I can rebuild from first principles instead of collecting quotable lessons — and what changed once I did.
A silent data-loss bug, and the one-line fix that ended it
Why Promise.all was quietly dropping drill history in Lucy Tutor's GitHub sync, and why sequential writes are sometimes the correct architecture, not the lazy one.
Logic and imagination over accumulated references
I'd rather reason a problem out from first principles than reach for what's already been said about it.
Verify before you push back
Disagreement is cheap. Checking your own math before you challenge someone else's is the part that actually earns it.
I plan trips the same way I plan a media budget
A fixed ceiling, a floor on quality, and everything else negotiable — the same brief structure whether it's a campaign or a week away.
Most 'growth hacks' are just unmeasured spend
Why the gap between performance marketing and brand marketing is usually an attribution gap, not a strategy gap.
Guangzhou, off-peak
Eight days, one travel partner, timed to land before Golden Week crowds hit.