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November 10, 2026 12:42 PM

I think the world moves too fast for me

...and I think it always has, but I used to be able to run when I needed to. I don't think I can keep up anymore.

When I still had a full time job, I worked fast. Now I hear about projects that would have taken many months of work get spun up in a week. Why did we decide that we needed to make things faster anyway? What was wrong with the pace of the world 5 years ago? There is already SO. MUCH. out there in the world to experience, more than anyone can see in a lifetime.

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I've seen some Teochew projects pop up on the internet recently, probably motivated by the success of Dear You. In the past I would get really excited about these. Someone just scrapped together some blog posts with their own knowledge of the language and it's not polished but it's another resource! Now I look at the new projects and they're massive. And I see that someone created a whole app in a week and I'm immediately so skeptical, like there's no way this person wrote (read?) everything.

And I do believe these new projects are being done in good faith. But man, something just feels "off".

But I don't want to think about that. There are still so many things I want to do with my time and while I know I can't do it all, I know I can at least stop doomscrolling. So I'm focusing on that.

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                              i needed some color in my life

It was unseasonably warm for a few days this past week. I thought this would be a bad fall to really enjoy the leaves, but I took a walk outside and it was honestly so nice to see them falling and to have that warm air hit my face. Walks are so good for the soul.

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I know that there are still a lot of good things in the world, and good things on the internet too! I want to celebrate those. I've been thinking about adding another page to this site that just has links to cool stuff I've found on the internet. You know, if I can find time in between the 17 other projects I've got going on.