In the last quarter of 2024, I wrote quite a lot of words, most of them directly by hand in a notebook. In early October, I became obsessed with fountain pen writing and experienced a joy of handwriting I had never felt before.
I once thought about organizing some of it to share, but I was unwilling to retype all those words. At first I tried converting them with AI text recognition, but my handwriting is too messy and my style too casual — the recognition accuracy was very low, so I had to give up on that idea.
Now, I’ve compiled the titles of everything I wrote in the last quarter of 2024 into an archive. For the topics that interest me, I’ll keep recording and writing in 2025, and then I can compare them side by side to see what has changed.
| No. | Title | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why Am I Angry | 2024/10/31 | Dora |
| 2 | Matters of Life and Death | 2024/10/31 | |
| 3 | What Is the Essence of Education | 2024/11/04 | Education |
| 4 | Another Day with C | 2024/11/08 | Dora |
| 5 | The Collapse of Trust | 2024/11/11 | Social topics |
| 6 | I’m Near the Top in C | 2024/11/12 | Dora |
| 7 | Can Counterfeit-Busting Be an Industry? | 2024/11/12 | Social topics |
| 8 | We Drift Apart — What Holds Us Together | 2024/11/13 | memo |
| 9 | Will Extreme Events Become More Common? | 2024/11/13 | Social topics |
| 10 | The Two Poles of Life | 2024/11/14 | memo |
| 11 | Giving Up Halfway, a Normal State of Life | 2024/11/14 | memo |
| 12 | Having a Question Doesn’t Mean There’s an Answer | 2024/11/15 | memo |
| 13 | An Egg Tart and a Piece of Fried Chicken | 2024/11/15 | Dora |
| 14 | Glory in Heart, March Forward Bravely — Chengdu AG Super Play Wins the Championship 🏆 | 2024/11/17 | Social topics |
| 15 | The Joy of Getting Started | 2024/11/17 | memo |
| 16 | What Is Ineffective Socializing | 2024/11/18 | memo |
| 17 | The Meaning of Effort: Giving a Generation the Courage to Take a Gap | 2024/11/19 | memo |
| 18 | The Meaning of Focus: Experiencing Flow | 2024/11/20 | memo |
| 19 | Life Is So Short — Just 25,200 Days | 2024/11/20 | memo |
| 20 | A Life of One’s Own Begins Where It Forks from One’s Parents | 2024/11/21 | memo |
| 21 | Accepting an Uncertain Life | 2024/11/26 | memo |
| 22 | I Was the Fastest Runner in My Class | 2024/11/28 | Dora |
| 23 | The Meaning of Education for the Individual | 2024/11/29 | Education |
| 24 | No Road Underfoot, Where to Go? Set Your Eyes on Life’s North Star | 2024/12/2 | memo |
| 25 | Feelings | 2024/12/12 | memo |
| 26 | If Time Could Turn Back | 2024/12/13 | memo |
| 27 | What Can Save You | 2024/12/19 | memo |
| 28 | The Last Resort — Do You Trust AI? | 2024/12/19 | memo |
| 29 | Becoming a Slave to the Senses | 2024/12/19 | memo |
| 30 | Lost Time | 2024/12/21 | memo |
| 31 | The Second Curve | 2024/12/22 | memo |
| 32 | The Shattering of Rational Worship | 2024/12/22 | memo |
| 33 | A Life Half a Beat Slow | 2024/12/25 | memo |
| 34 | A Life of Subtraction | 2024/12/27 | memo |
| 35 | 40 Questions About 2024 | 2024/12/31 | memo |
Finally, I wish everyone finds their own sense of ease in writing and enjoys the pleasure of putting words down.
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