April and May 2026 Reflection

Now, everything is ok. I almost finish everything. I finished Goethe A1 test but just yet don’t know the result, which I confidently estimate passed. And I delivered German Visa material on May 25. So now I just need to wait the result during the next 4 weeks. I know everything is ok.

It is time to consider what’s next.

I suppose that it will be full of possibility. I like writing in an independent place instead of at home, which is with zero productivity and full of tempts.

Actually, I don’t need to require me to write an excellent article. I just write something with hard thinking. Perhaps, I contemplate by writing.

From April 23rd to May 22nd, I was almost in preparation for German test. This is not a hard test. But I think I am a certainty-addicted guy. So I don’t feel relaxation before coming through the test.

I travelled in Shanghai for 4 days with my girlfriend from April 30, which is really a good time. Meanwhile, it’s the time too, at which I received my German university offer. I’m very glad and feel satisfied when we ate two cakes together for celebrating my offer.

On May 22, I was in Wuhan to do the German test. After that, I have lunch and dinner with my friend and my classmate from high school separately. I think I should make some friends in Hangzhou. People have needs to get some emotional support. I hardly ever hang out with friends in Hangzhou.

Next station

Nowadays, AI has become more and more powerful. One year or 6 months ago I think people can use AI tool build everything. I’m right and wrong. The real problem seems not be whether we can program and publish our code, but what we really want to build. Coding is just a very small part of building a successful product. There are some vital stages we have skipped, like marketing, building brand influence, communicating with users and profiting it.

Last 2~3 months, I have learned iOS dev and Figma design, but I still think there are a lot I need to learn. Then I realized I should start to build rather than keeping learning, which is an endless process. I believe I will know what I really need to learn in practice.

Now, I’m time prosperity. But that’s not always good, because it can easily lead to desire-less. It seems you can do everything, but you just don’t know what to do. You can do one thing, also not. So why do it? We even can save more energy if not do it.

I should find the real question, which is not intervened by hot trends. If there is a talk between us, please ask a deep question🥹. Can I? I don’t know. How do I? Reading is one of solution.

Make everyone see me!

Share what I really understand with others!

Every time I finish a book, I understand and get more than reading a long article. Details are one important part of them, which an article cannot reach and AI also cannot. It is same that learning something for 1 week or 1 month gets more than just for 2 hours.

Immersive is also one important part. But I think they are same. When you care more details, you come into immersive state naturally. During this process, you not only get knowledge, you also get feeling, which is more impressive than abstract and obscure knowledge.

Learn German

German is hard, but German A1 is not. Finishing it in one month is absolutely feasible. When my study abroad agency first time told me I need to finish Goethe A1, I feel terrible because I haven’t yet planned to do it. I was very reluctant. But I have to. I start to learn German in Duolingo at first. After 3 weeks of that, I found learning in Duolingo is too segmented. I even cannot figure out how to pronounce German letters, like ‘ü’ and ‘ö’. So I know it’s time I should learn German seriously and systematically. I memorized 600 common German words and completed basic grammars. Then I did the mock A1 test. Correct, memorize and do new test. Repeat the loop for 3~4 times. I’m almost competent to the test (I think).

After the test, I even want to continue preparing for A2 and start for French or Japanese. You know the feeling is like, you just think you can do everything, like after finishing a long run.

So not everything is hard. Or say, every difficult task can be separated as some easy sub-tasks. For example, German is hard, but German A1 is easy. If we want to do something, we should start to do it, rather than be scared away by its summarizedly overall difficulty.

One more thing …

Ok, let’s go on.

You know, our society is developing quickly. Everyone think so. But it’s not. We can find a lot of old stuffs, like design patterns, cultures and traditions that teachers pass to students and students who become teacher later pass to their students. So we don’t need to trap into the chasing race for new stuff. Sometimes we can look back some fantastic moments we do or others do. I like history and think we can predict future by learning history.

Learning more doesn’t mean knowing more, and even more impossibly means mastering more. We know there is a threshold between understanding one thing and just finishing the process. Once we pursue too more, what we get keeps stagnant. The threshold is not obvious, the rate of paying to receiving actually is linear, which is like vertical reversed ‘v’.

The problem of “learning more” is that it is not a one-time process, it is a long process. We might learning something daily or weekly. Learning too much makes us feel exhausted and blows our motivation away. Thinking more and doing less is more advisable. Even more and necessarily, we need leave more spare time, which seems sort of wasteful.