Douglas Wei
Kendo, chess, old books, and a tech job I'm learning to leave.
I write about the slow, unglamorous middle.
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I lost in fifteen seconds. The conversation in my head took minutes.
I lost in fifteen seconds.
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A mind as vast as a valley. Mine was full.
When I used to trade with leveraged investment product, many people told me not to buy it.
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I didn’t stop being afraid. The fear changed shape.
Three years of kendo, once a week. What actually changed.
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"Wu wei" in the Tao Te Ching does not mean that I should do nothing.
If “wu wei” is explained in Chinese literally it means doing nothing.
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I tried to do two things at once. I did neither.
What a lost chess game told me about my attention.