Working things out,
in writing.

2026

1. 2026.10.19Progress Needs People Who Can Still Say NoFrom AI-made science and Canada's search for autonomy to battery recycling, climate preparedness and millennials' recovery, this issue asks who retains the ability to test claims and change course. It ends with 10 useful English expressions.TE Weekly 1515 min · EN/ZH
2. 2026.10.12Every Promise Needs Someone to PayFrom sovereign debt and LNG shortages to Europe's China strategy, AI oversight and scientific evidence, this issue tests whether promises come with the resources and accountability needed to honour them. It ends with 10 useful English expressions.TE Weekly 1414 min · EN/ZH
3. 2026.10.06Greater Capacity Needs Better RulesFrom effective altruism and AI taxation to China's infrastructure, energy bottlenecks and mirror life, this issue asks who governs expanding productive power and shares its gains. It ends with 10 useful English expressions.TE Weekly 1313 min · EN/ZH
4. 2026.09.27Shortcuts Move Costs Rather Than Remove ThemFrom AI-written prose and ineffective surgery to housing, American retrenchment and data-centre insurance, this issue shows how apparent shortcuts shift costs rather than eliminate them. It ends with 10 useful English expressions.TE Weekly 1210 min · EN/ZH
5. 2026.09.20Power Is What Can Be Verified and DeliveredFrom an unverifiable AI truce and Russia's drone campaign to sovereign debt, South African crime and the uneven AI boom, this issue argues that power lies in enforceable capacity rather than declared intent. It ends with 10 useful English expressions.TE Weekly 1110 min · EN/ZH
6. 2026.09.12The Difference Between a Claim and a CapacityFrom Europe's argument over Islam and Germany's AfD to falling test scores, AI employment and free buses, this issue asks whether public claims survive contact with evidence and institutions. It ends with 10 useful English expressions.TE Weekly 1010 min · EN/ZH
7. 2026.09.05The Bottleneck Is Usually Next DoorFrom Nvidia's circular financing and America's data-centre backlash to India's UPI, women's work and Chinese food safety, this issue shows that progress is often constrained by the institution beside the breakthrough. It concludes with 10 useful English expressions.TE Weekly 0912 min · EN/ZH
8. 2026.09.03Colors Should Have ProvenanceWe record where data, code, and images come from, yet colors often survive as little more than anonymous hex values. biopalette began with a simple thought: colors should keep their provenance too.biopalette 018 min · EN/ZH
9. 2026.08.30Power Can Compel Without ControllingFrom American deportations, tariffs and Iran sanctions to China’s extraterritorial laws, public-sector AI and humanoid robots, this issue shows why coercion becomes self-defeating when power outruns institutional capacity. It concludes with 10 useful English expressions.TE Weekly 0813 min · EN/ZH
10. 2026.08.22When Signals Become Targets, Systems Lose the PlotFrom AI consciousness and data-centre forecasts to China’s unemployment rate, stock indices, trade routes and the Strait of Hormuz, this issue shows how proxies become misleading when institutions start managing them as goals. It concludes with 10 useful English expressions.TE Weekly 0714 min · EN/ZH
11. 2026.08.16Control Is Not the Same as CapacityFrom Afghanistan, Venezuela and presidential tariff powers to Chinese oil reserves, Taiwanese gridlock, AI agents and embryo screening, this issue distinguishes visible control from the institutional capacity to produce durable outcomes. It concludes with 10 useful English expressions.TE Weekly 0616 min · EN/ZH
12. 2026.08.09Frontend Is DeadI never systematically learned JavaScript, yet in one week I rebuilt or created five personal websites with Claude Code and Codex. Frontend has not disappeared from the web, but it is changing from work that requires a dedicated profession into a set of capabilities anyone can invoke through an agent.Tech9 min · EN/ZH
13. 2026.08.09When Action Gets Cheap, Institutions Pay the BillFrom Chinese jobs, British litigation and autonomous AI attacks to Korean chip wealth, public debt, Hormuz and Sudan, this issue shows that cheaper action does not automatically produce productivity; it first creates problems of congestion, liability and distribution. It concludes with 10 useful English expressions.TE Weekly 0515 min · EN/ZH
14. 2026.08.03The Future Is a Maintenance ProblemFrom post-quantum encryption, wildfires and Asian deterrence to AI editing, American entrepreneurship and financial fraud, this issue argues that societies are better at announcing breakthroughs than maintaining the systems that make progress safe and durable. It concludes with 10 useful English expressions from the issue.TE Weekly 0414 min · EN/ZH
15. 2026.07.28一个不够好的归宿，比没有归宿更糟程英、陆无双与完颜萍的结局差别，与其说源于三人对杨过的感情深浅，不如说源于金庸对她们文学分量的不同估价。可以被草草交代的人物，才配得上一个现成的世俗结局。Reading6 min · ZH
16. 2026.07.27The Rule-Makers Are Escaping the RulesFrom Elon Musk, runaway AI models and prediction markets to Chinese technology standards, British nostalgia and Nicaraguan autocracy, this issue asks what happens when the people who make, interpret or evade the rules become more powerful than the institutions meant to hold them accountable. It concludes with 10 useful English expressions from the issue.TE Weekly 0316 min · EN/ZH
17. 2026.07.19The More You Control, the Less You Can ChooseFrom a dimming Earth, the Strait of Hormuz and America’s Department of Justice to sovereign AI, China’s marriage crisis and urban nightlife, this issue reveals a recurring mechanism: attempts to eliminate risk and dependence often create new vulnerabilities and narrow the choices available later. It concludes with 10 useful English expressions.TE Weekly 0214 min · EN/ZH
18. 2026.07.17Ambition Is Cheap, Capacity Is ScarceThis issue moves from Russia, European defence and housing to semiconductors, AI bonds and dementia, repeatedly asking the same question: as political and commercial ambitions expand, can institutional, fiscal and technological capacity keep up? It concludes with 16 useful English expressions from the issue.TE Weekly 0113 min · EN/ZH
19. 2026.05.28After 24 Kata: Learning To Ask A Better QuestionAfter the first 24 Kata exercises, the biggest lesson was not a specific algorithm, but learning to ask what information each step should produce.Tech8 min · EN/ZH
20. 2026.04.06Welcome to My Blog“Not all those who wander are lost.” This is the beginning of my journey to explore both the world and myself.Life1 min · EN/ZH