Reading Time: < 1 minute I came across this term yesterday. You may search the Twitter (aka X) for more tweets on the topic. And this made me to think two small stock positions I have and I may have talked about them in my blog posts too: LEG (Legget and Platt) and SCS (Steelcase). I just did a bit

Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s the beginning of the year, and one common theme or joke is people sign up the gym membership in January. This is probably true. I do think we should look long term for the fitness and health. Personally I am not a believer of new year resolution, but at the same time, I do

Reading Time: 4 minutes I think this is a very common thing: at the car rental counter, the clerk asks “do you want to buy the comprehensive insurance”, and/or buy the full tank of gas, so that you don’t need to fill up the car when you return it. My answer is always, no. Except once I probably bought

Reading Time: 2 minutes Below was started in year 2016, and I just finished it today 12-27-2023 Immanuel Lutheran Olivette Day School Come lord Jesus, be our guest, let those gifts to us be blessed. Hope Montessori Academy Creve Coeur Thank you for this day , thank you for this food, thank you for the friends we have and

Reading Time: 3 minutes I didn’t do well in my last 2 years of investing or trading. I think the overall performance in my main IRA (trading) account, for last 2 years (2022 and 2023) is slightly down. This year, I lagged behind the S&P 500 index in terms of performance (mine 11% vs S&P 500’s 25%). And I

Reading Time: 9 minutes As the old Chinese sayng goes, 下棋找高手，弄斧到班门 (baidu)。下棋找高手，弄斧到班门。—-中国科学院 || Basically one needs to get trained properly or work at a place that has some good technology and process so that he or she can really understand what’ the proper way to do the work, and work with people. Got right training at the beginning of the

Reading Time: 5 minutes I like to run when I was in middle school, for two reasons. I was not too bad at running, in fact I won a few track medals for 200 meters and 4×100 meters relay. I failed pretty bad in the 800 meters race (in my grade, one grade has 4 classes). But I am

Reading Time: 2 minutes One St. Louis-area public school among nation’s Top 50 in new rankings (Below was written in 05-31-2014, about 9 and half years ago, when our old daughter S was at Hope Montessori Academy in Creve Coeur. We love both our daughters’ teachers since then too 🙂 There is a cliche, saying we learn a lot

Reading Time: 2 minutes Thinking it may be helpful for me to explain all this, as I never heard about those coming from China to the USA in late 1990s. Maybe the employers are doing those in China nowadays too, but at my time, I never heard about it. Background Check There are background check, and sometimes there are

Reading Time: 2 minutes General Rule of Thumb on the length of work tenure A while ago, in year 2010, I got this rule from a friend. My friend spends most of time doing IT/software contractor work, long term contract though. I asked him “how long should I stay at this place because there is a senior guy seems