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A Granddaughter’s Memories of Boundary-Breaking Performer Yi-Kwei Sze.” As his granddaughter, I was honored to share some of my memories for the piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1640304485653-NJA0VZVPXAAJUMOWMNDZ/Screen+Shot+2021-12-23+at+4.06.30+PM.png Blah-blah... - My Grandpa Yi-Kwei Sze https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1640305584758-976J5I303LTF7RXBS0FB/Screen+Shot+2021-12-23+at+4.25.57+PM.png Blah-blah... - My Grandpa Yi-Kwei Sze https://www.jingyuli.net/blog/simulations monthly 0.5 2021-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1630564039763-SDPCTJTJTPQHFXWOKSQS/Screen+Shot+2021-09-01+at+11.25.55+PM.png Blah-blah... - A Simulation of the Spreading of infectious Disease https://www.jingyuli.net/blog/put-down-the-roots monthly 0.5 2020-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599772965617-Q73YQRE0YG7QP8ZWRHL2/IMG_5982.jpg Blah-blah... - Putting Down Roots This is my backyard with a productive vegetable garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599843565362-D9AYDB0RFQP1X6PYJ3OB/IMG_2087.jpg Blah-blah... - Putting Down Roots But it didn’t come that way. 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Nailed all four corners together, a frame is raising from the dead wood! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599080186950-NDKPFPFR1LSITN776D0R/IMG_6071.jpg Blah-blah... - Exploring Nature’s Greatest Secret - Attaching the Fabric Shouldn’t be so hard right? Just need to make the surface smooth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599080740717-3R93YUZ2VVI0JNZIPO6T/IMG_6084.jpg Blah-blah... - Exploring Nature’s Greatest Secret - Keep the Surface Smooth I didn’t realize how hard it was to keep the surface smooth. You have to apply force evenly to all different directions. A little unfairness will cause a tiny winkle, which will be seen from very faraway. So I kept stretching it from around, until it was all smooth… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599080975279-TQTRKKHH5VIWVMVHMXDQ/IMG_6102.jpg Blah-blah... - Exploring Nature’s Greatest Secret The failed result - I got an hour-glass shaped canvas, and, even worse, I found I mis-calculated some of the measurements. The nature’s greatest secret is still a well kept secret … And I have to go back to the drawing board, to start over again! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599343714176-XMGAABEELGJ0N0KMZN2Q/IMG_6125.jpg Blah-blah... - Exploring Nature’s Greatest Secret Still hang it up on the wall. 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It was a team building afternoon, and we were playing a game similar to Pictionary - each person have to drawing with clues about the word they had received for others to guess. When it was my turn to give the words, I decided to pick only one word for the entire team. As you can see, very different pictures were the resulting from the same word! Can you guess what this word was? Please t ake a minute for a close look. Smoke came out from the ears? Rollercoaster rides? A ball of mess? Staring at a monitor seeing tangled threads? Waterfall? Is this word FRUSTRATION or CONFUSION or CHAOTIC or AMBIGUOUS or SETBACKS or FATIGUE?. This word is SOFTWARE! Sadly, this grim picture truly reflects some key aspects of software development in many organizations, where software developers experiment frustration and confusion and chaotic and ambiguous and setbacks and fatigue. Modulation, encapsulation, and API standardization … with each technique or method added to our toolbox, we hope software construction would be like building LEGOs - finally plugging all pieces together, and HURRAH, it works. But our experience revealed to us again and again, that building software is more like solving a Rubik’s cube, often after we put one cube in the right spot, by accident we moved another one to the wrong spot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603752619172-VY6XFGIQDAI9YJTLIZM1/Screen+Shot+2020-10-26+at+3.46.36+PM.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - Opposite from a fairytale, each software project has a happy beginning, but rarely a happy ending. At the beginning, everyone in the team are charged for a new project with enthusiastic and energy; The project idea is cool, the technology is new, and the teammates are super smart. But as it closer to the deadline, all the problems, aka bugs, are jumping out to push the deadline again and again. I’ve been seeing this happening everywhere, projects large or small, in companies large or small. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603753129174-EI9NRA5O7XN6UAR4P56K/E0BD98E1-EDA1-49C4-B3A1-FF23861690CA_1_201_a.jpeg Blah-blah... - On Building Software - Since when the infamous 90-90 rule rules the making of complex software development? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603753256410-6H5ATCHA743G7UJ7UJ3Z/7234ABBF-1D93-49B2-BDF9-222138F67DD9_1_201_a.jpeg Blah-blah... - On Building Software - Often it is someone else’s problem, right? Maybe not… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603753426799-RS4ETO81JG0N2Q1TX512/8D89B4D1-5C9D-4E65-9C41-3FDAA439A905.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - Let’s try to root cause a problem. I picked Microsoft calculator sample code because it is small enough for a quick understanding, but complex enough to demonstrate the problem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603753681871-XU6M8V5KPUVBHZP763IA/307B21D1-EF90-4A5F-8C49-65D5F0E26B55.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - This is a Microsoft sample code for Windows calculator. While it demonstrated the strength of the software development tool, it exposed a problem of software making in even in the famous software house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603754001355-SY4Z2JVZ7XNYUEHAZ3HO/AEDEBDB6-89F3-4689-B7AF-B9B38A0550DA.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - It crashes a lot. Ian Horrock, a computer science professor, said, in an hour with different scenarios, he could make it crash, or freeze for more than 10 times. It normally works well, but only when you try to enter something out side of the rules for a calculator input, For example, punch in “2 + + 3”, or “ x 2 + 2, or 2 + + 2 will crash it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603754410443-VO97TUU4QZHMUPQKOHHH/A895A9CC-87F5-4386-8CB5-39B01720FBA9.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - Just fix the bugs! You may say, it’s normal for software to have bugs, just fix the bugs, it will be fine. But what if you fix one bug, on the next round of testing, 2 more bugs were found, which was caused by your bug fix. Repeating the fix-test cycle, that is where the other 90% Mr. Cargill mentioned. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603754919559-HUQC9EQTCWQ05QNCZDOU/07CCA5AB-5C26-4962-B31E-D86C18B4ADC0.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - The difficulty with event driven system The challenge is rooted from, any even can come in any time in any sequence, but how to handle the event is based on the context. For example in the calculator, when you type 2 + - 3, it is totally fine. But if you type 2 + x 3, although both follows “operand, operator, operator, operand” sequence. But how can you distinguish it so the system would not process the second one? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603754972975-IO8A97ITUVQLXOK0KORA/FC64596E-007D-4814-9B58-E559CD9D741E.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - The button-up design and the use of flags A conventional way of “remembering” the context is to share flags between the event handlers, to set it, or to read it on a conditional statement. Each time we discover a missing context in our logic flow, we add another flag. Along with the growing number of flags, we started to trapped in a maze created by ourselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603754847366-DZHXYL2KU27B5SWQVYOH/815D22EE-BA77-49AB-A8B5-1FD3991C99D5.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - “When complexity also works, why bother with simplicity.” - Anonymous This is a design document from Microsoft. On the good side, it actually has a document! But on the flip side, who has the courage to trace its logic, to maintain this documentation, and can still say it is correct with confidence? If you want to make a change here, how can you guarantee that you will not break something else? In other words, bottom-up design made us loose the sight of the system working together as a whole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603753034327-S3X6H63FC9SRI0Z99RU7/B36A0005-5BB4-48FB-8F58-355DDE9B5FE8.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - I’m wonder what is Weinberg’s fist law. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603755089931-GN2ODER08TB98N0017JL/AC335498-CD0B-4C8E-B1F2-45F63668B7E4.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - A systematic design for mechanical engineering, for building architecture, is modeling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603755152305-E58RSICFK2202YATZ6EJ/image-asset.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - The born of Statechart David Harel, a young professor at the time, mentioned that when he was invited to join a regular discussion on building a new aircraft for the Israel air force, everyone there was the top expert in their field. But the discussion often goes on and on with little progress, because there is nothing to help them to capture their thoughts, to organize them into a system, and to communicate them through different disciplines. He tried to draw finite state-machine like charts on the board to capture the ideas in a way so everyone can see it. That was eventually how the state chart was developed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603755199067-OXVVQZDCJ99DHB3I95I1/D984D2CA-EDE8-4E04-A2A4-D98448C00D0D.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - The control part in a Model-View-Controller as a system It is an over used design pattern, the idea is to decouple the software into three parts, View manages the user experience, Model maintains the data collected or generated, the Control tracks the business logic and based on the context to notify View or Model. In this discussion, we focus on the Controller part. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603755257110-SF4EE0M5BR8854630RG8/2F103421-60EA-4F58-A92B-1D5E8201814A.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - The calculator Controller in statechart Statechart maintains a context without the flagship flags. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603755317094-GP9829QM1131OGWK4AZ2/BA0AFC48-04FD-4CE9-BED1-A76C37354255.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - Statechart support simplicity through abstraction, which concept has been used in Object—oriented design for several decades, that is using inheritance for a behavior shared among many components. Abstraction is the key of simplicity. For testing, it means a huge deduction of testing coverage: instead of testing many times in each components, it only test once in super-class. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603755365675-AOBB1312HGSEE0W3JJ27/C2DB9568-B2C4-4341-89F0-8E4F589AB67C.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603755521923-E8GEBCFE0OS9ZUIE2X0Y/1456231F-F207-4002-8767-E7F2AD481A8D.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - Statechar support a top-down design, which made it possible to see the system as a whole https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603755466268-OJA7AMLRYT9ZUF6Y10LC/691867EB-3747-4A0A-9934-141A88DCECB9.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603755612635-BOZAR95J6WT2XU5YJKAN/66371057-E94E-4CE4-A55F-D15050705D30.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603755672710-0XPCLZDYFXBPV96FPLMS/7147F94A-0870-4EDB-8ECE-83FA5BE027AC.png Blah-blah... - 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A new way of event handling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603758787421-NJYKE23D1EY0PFUO205J/41B6CBBB-3F85-4839-B9A0-33EAAB35ECFD.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - Build on top of a framework for statechart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603758840213-IN1YBTWLKCSVSE7DZ3ED/4C863FA5-A593-410B-BE9C-639B3DB9D66A.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - A generic architecture for a large but decoupled system https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603759050110-BYB83V6ZXW0MCMPTZJ9L/E399E953-E6B9-4C86-81C7-A042FA788E4A.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - A real world class-III medical device built on statechart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603759111779-GTDYAJ2LS3UJ7V0GC3XA/1A59EB1E-2567-41DF-A23A-9368F1BAEAC5.png Blah-blah... - On Building Software - My favorite quote from this famous writer, the same principle applies to software writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1603759187294-XZYV4EL6ANA3K3ONYBAJ/FEF47781-6EB3-49BE-87B6-EB5E744E79CD.png Blah-blah... - 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It recorded how I lead my team in a four-year journey of developing software for a medical device from concept to clinic. It’s a great piece to share because - it’s good enough that delivered a very complex embedded device on time with excellent quality; it’s generic enough that it’s not break any NDA; it’s detailed enough to have a ten thousand feet above view on the software development process . https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/i-have-a-dream monthly 0.5 2020-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1608236995516-G9CN8T495BFOTRKS0MLO/JingyuNotebook2020-12-17.jpeg Notebooks - "I Have a Dream" https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/wildlife-cdrc9 monthly 0.5 2020-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599890564093-4566CNCP2KGBT8JVTZK5/IMG_2897.jpg Notebooks - Princess and Pee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599890564186-987E7I91IBHKAZLZJSFS/IMG_2898.jpg Notebooks - Princess and Pee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599890561608-UVTRWHYVHGVEGGL13G44/IMG_6155.JPG Notebooks - Princess and Pee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599704757112-5HGJ9AH7324YAW9PITRX/1E75BC32-FD82-4160-9606-40F16A429ABF_1_201_a.jpeg Notebooks - Princess and Pee - Princess and Pee Once I was caught in a snowstorm after work. The free-way was jammed and turned into a free-parking. The bright headlights reviled everything in the dark. Men claimed the unsigned restrooms everywhere. But where is it for women?? Sorry we don’t have that build-in convenience. I was so exhausted by that bio-need. The similar situation happened when I was hiking, skiing, or even ride a long distance bus. I tried some of the products available on the market, they don’t work well. This idea is to invent something to bring that convenience to women, with sanity. https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/social-distancing monthly 0.5 2021-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599678662616-79LJ244SEUC1C1S8S5WH/191127-think-amazon-fulfillment-center-01-se-459p_300340c2f995c2fa03227c146ec58ec7.fit-2000w.jpg Notebooks - Social Distancing - for warehouse workers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599678737614-T6GDD854YIUWM9200DOL/0550bb6ea20f8fd20fd23ccc66fa28ce7030ba00.jpeg Notebooks - Social Distancing - for warehouse workers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599712609698-1KJTXPUER84WQ5TI0DK2/364F96C7-DC06-4C64-86BF-CDFD55EADA37_1_201_a.jpeg Notebooks - Social Distancing - for warehouse workers - Social Distancing for Warehouse Workers - a solution Keeping a social distance of 6 feet is easier for people in a general public place, like a grocery store, or a park. But it is extremely hard for workers who are working in a non-stationed dense plant, such as an Amazon warehouse. They have to constantly moving to the area for stowing, picking, even packing. During a crises like the recent COVID-19, the often urgent demand items are concentrated on a few areas, such as the none-perished food, toilet papers, and cleaning supplies. In this situation, the workflow has to be strategically designed to avoid over crowd. Simply let the pickers wait for the clearance of others is impossible due to the time pressure. My notes captured my thoughts on how to use simple off-shelf products like Raspberry Pie, BlueTooth Beacon, and cloud service to strategically arranging the workflow, also bring people’s awareness. (I want to claim that this idea has nothing to do with my employer Amazon, although it could solve some problems Amazon Fulfillment Centers are facing. ) Below photo credit: Bloomberg. https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/take-land-without-war monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599673090760-78MDR2TXU6RDS8C1K8AM/IMG_3211.jpg Notebooks - Take land without war https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599673136452-VCS4WQ471RC5HNM56FQL/IMG_3237.jpg Notebooks - Take land without war https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599673186782-1PC1QPC045S8GR9CC4H6/IMG_3235.jpg Notebooks - Take land without war The farmland otherwise under the sea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599760343927-86R86CUK440E09TV0YEP/IMG_3231.jpg Notebooks - Take land without war https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599760425717-2HMW0FEATCMHDC1ZQ7BY/IMG_3257.jpg Notebooks - Take land without war https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599760464890-XCM01TIVWRBAPWO3EWX6/IMG_3266.jpg Notebooks - Take land without war https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599760502457-GLRZZGJ8M10JF19Z7F7Z/IMG_3245.jpg Notebooks - Take land without war https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599706810439-VCFDJ0VEO8BIEGUGC0BH/8A02DED6-F3D1-4D68-B166-5956BD2975C3_1_201_a.jpeg Notebooks - Take land without war - Take land without war If you have been in Amsterdam, or other place in Netherland, you would instantly notice that the water is everywhere. Most of Dutch land is under the sea level, as you recalled the story of this little hero boy hold his finger to seal the leaking dam to save the entire city. The real heroes (include females) are actually the ones who designed the Windmills. It was only during my second time visiting Netherland, I noticed how interesting the Dutch windmills are beside serving as the photo props! Windmills are working 24x7, on the most basic two elements the nature consistently provides, the wind 风, and the water 水. With the wind force, they were pushing the excess water from the inland to the open sea. The majority of the vast Dutch farmland used to feed millions was rescued from under the sea by the Windmills. Windmills also severed cutting the wood, grinding the grain, and even, ground the stone made the oil paint Rembrandts was using! I took the following photos on a trip to Dutch country side in the Spring of 2019. https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/dopamine-a-world-of-wonder monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599700746126-UO37CCZYAJFNC56J7GCD/D63FCB69-25AF-42BC-924E-34904B88292A_1_201_a.jpeg Notebooks - Dopamine, a World of Wonder - Dopamine, a World of Wonder When my kids were really young, Pokemon became very popular. One day, my preschool daughter told me about all 50 Pokemons, each of their name, strengths, weakness, the food it likes, and so on. I was stunned. Just a day before, a friend told me her second-grad son had trouble to memorize multiplication table. I thought what if we turn all the school work into games? No kids would have trouble to memorize any thing then. Imagine a marriage when all the household chores are games?! So when Coursera first offered Gamification class years ago, I jumped in with all the excitement. This is my condensed one-page summary after finished the course. Years late when I was working on warehouse software, I have to visit different warehouses as part of my training. 10 hours a day on their foot, the workers working on stowing, piking or packing are in a building that can host 10 soccer fields but have no window, and the only sound they can hear were loud noises from running conveyor belts, moving folk lifts, and roaming robots (it’s not allowed to wear any earphones to listen to music there). One worker told me his working days were physically tiring and emotionally exhausting. Most workers I met were not happy, and some called it “a brain dead job”. But in one hot June day when I was visiting a warehouse in Phoenix, things were different. First of all, when the workers walked in in the morning, they were all in colorful workout outfits and each were holding a water bottle, just like gym-goers entering a health club. At the start, the manager Scott gathered everyone in a circle, and instructing them with warmup stretches. Everyone followed Scott with enthusiastic laughters. At the end, Scott asked each to reset their pedometers. Because at the end of the shift, Scott would hand out small rewards, such as a hat or a T-shirt for the one with most steps. Workers told me that they would work at that warehouse as long as Scott works there, and Scott has been there leading them for 4 years. In back of my mind I was thinking, what made Scott a great leader, is that he knew how to turn difficult tasks into games to motivate everyone, to make work fun. I witnessed gamification in practice! https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/creating-depth monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599712720754-BSE1R1J2V8IV0BEM63H3/AAF81D53-C6F0-4047-B2CB-D9ACE47C9D01_1_201_a.jpeg Notebooks - Creating Depth - Simple Rules for Drawing This is a good summarization about how to create depth when drawing. I learned it from John Muir Laws’ book on natural journaling. https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/new-portfolio-item monthly 0.5 2022-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599627879663-UXDF5LEVYLLKUBVGIQQV/28926617-A5F5-4EE3-B827-8FE6F692AF01_1_201_a.jpeg Notebooks - Micro-Climate - Where mushrooms grow Nature mushrooms requires the perfect micro-climate to grow, and the “spot” has always been the best kept secret for delicacy mushrooms. Mushroom hunting has been one of the best game designed by nature. To play, you need to have physical stamina, combined knowledge of biology and geology, and a craving for delicious fungus! My notes captured my hypothesis on how to find such a spot for spring morels. When the snow from the mountain top was melting, when the sunlight hit the surrounding hills and reflected the warmth, in combination of the location of a near by stream or the path of melting snow, and the plants surrounded. You need a GPS, and a elevation map because, we human are too small to get the big picture when we are in the vast wild! (The doodle was inspired by John Muir Laws’ book on natural journaling) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/ba845e3d-eee1-4254-9387-a6867eb4116e/IMG_0076.jpg Notebooks - Micro-Climate - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599672360786-MEY8P9Z10MNE85DAJIG3/IMG_5276.jpg Notebooks - Micro-Climate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599672557907-GW2WHD9BO9HPB46ZLUHU/IMG_3189.jpg Notebooks - Micro-Climate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599672618890-XE3WAW9J23KWC73OCMRV/IMG_0683.jpg Notebooks - Micro-Climate https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/garden monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599706597992-BTUQ765CPJM57CNBA23X/C6CF71F5-C17F-473C-9D3F-AF685B2FD4E1_1_201_a.jpeg Notebooks - Seed to Plant - My Home Garden Growing a garden in my backyard gives me a lot to see and to think about. If the leafs are for the photosynthesis, why different plants has different shape of leafs? The dried fava bean in a jar will alway be in the same lifeless state, but as soon as you soak them in the water, life comes to them, they started to have sprouting and grow, first was a little future root came out, then keep their head low is the leafs unfolding like an origami. https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/dock-sea4f monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599706383565-SK4AQEZSKI00AA1SFTX3/045EFDC0-5B1F-4A5A-8366-BB2A0D90C10C_1_201_a.jpeg Notebooks - Head Strong - Head strong Once I was reviewing a medical device patent translation from English to Chinese. It took a lot of mental toll. I was wearing a hat after some garden work, and I was amazingly focused. That made me wonder about if we can extend the function of a hat. https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/crystals-8e3gr monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599706000282-Z1QG7SZ67LQLTIXIM5KK/9D04B40A-1B39-43F2-A810-52649F6A903A_1_201_a.jpeg Notebooks - Mutualism in Nature - Friend or Foe? In a summer day when I sit out in my garden, I noticed how many creatures were being attracted to those plants. All bees, hummingbirds, dragon flies, birds, slugs, rabbits, squirrels. They all here to serve themselves, but, it could be a mutual benefit. Genius! https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/landscape-8bgag monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599705753264-NB8G2RUC4GEXLN9KM6RO/9A6E15EA-C01A-41BE-AC3E-CB0629F658C1_1_201_a.jpeg Notebooks - A failed gardening experiment - My Gardening Nutrient Deliver System (a failed experiment) Can I deliver the nutrient directly to the root with a cut-up plastic planter? If so, how deep the planter should go? Can I bring in more sunlight to the shaded backyard? This experiment proved that idea won’t work, because it takes awhile for the food scraps to break down. When not fully break down, it actually harm the plants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599775962406-9VWSP6FMFOB2ZJLYMPMP/IMG_2719.jpg Notebooks - A failed gardening experiment https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/horizon-yjzkj monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599705539591-ZFU32FDEYKOB7C7NUMEZ/473167FF-BAD4-4DC2-B657-7FF8B47C3C7C_1_201_a.jpeg Notebooks - Dish out dish washing - Dish out dish-washing There are a lot of work for each meal, cooking is only half of it. The other half is dish washing. Not only it is labor intensive, but it uses a lot drinking-grade water, and energy. When I visited Morocco a couple of years ago, I noticed that a kitchen for a family 5+ is smaller than our bathroom in size! Where are the varieties of dishes, pots, utensils being stored? They don’t have them! They don’t need them. To eat with the family is to sit in a circle, to tear a piece of bread and dip into the common serving dish, which is also the cookware! Thoughts - If you want to control the population growth, just make a complicated system of using variety of dishes and utensils. I’d like to design my own kitchen which uses less power and time for both people and machines. Where should I start? https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/seafaring-t9zh7 monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599705341525-HVB6EHZRWSH23TKJS4A0/35901C1E-0A32-4964-9B1F-03A3EB4E5828_1_201_a.jpeg Notebooks - Triangles - Triangles Once I was listening to an audio book by Tom Kelley on innovation. And my mind was drifting away while my hand was drawing randomly. The drawing on the page has many triangles, the most used stable shape for stability (except, when this word was used in relationships.) https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/peaks-6g7pn monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599704385583-8LFCO0PGLBATGSYXXIXV/20B32ED7-3CC4-4072-B4C5-58B1ECE23E1C_1_201_a.jpeg Notebooks - Plant's trick - Pitcher Plant At a lunch break when I walked in to Amazon’s Sphere, a botanist was holding a pitcher plant, which was just fall off from the plant. She asked us to touch it - it feels like a manmade object, some parts is waxy slippery, while others is hairy and poky! The color is vivid on some parts, but very dull on other. Why pitcher plant as it is? https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/wharf-5hljm monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599706209780-KLWV6819XOBNIQDP4GWW/DAD407A2-A171-4606-AD61-32BBC9EAAFB9_1_201_a.jpeg Notebooks - Packing for a short trip - What to Pack? A visual list for my 2-week Amsterdam-Belgium trip in May. Worth to mention, a light-weight shawl has been the best friend for travel! Mine has served as a blanket for air/bus/train rides, a temporary skirt to cover my shorts when showing legs are “un-respectful”, after swimming robe, temporary sleepwear, sun shade, and, headwear, when showing long hairs are forbidden. https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/coast-75gbb monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599704534507-BTK30YPXU9WFIKLKSKNY/4CD5C221-E80C-49E7-B5ED-48822C8AD8E1_1_201_a.jpeg Notebooks - Sitting - Why should we re-considerate the way we are sitting? I always like to sit on the floor instead of the coach, which makes me wonder… What is the most comfortable way to sit? When were chairs and couches invented? How does the way we are sitting affect our physical and psychological health? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1600145906914-RTW7TOGSF9JIRT1D549H/musical-chairs.jpg Notebooks - Sitting This is interesting … this industry designer gave chairs their personalities using music types. Where we sit on does affect our mood. https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/block-chain monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1599699969448-R20JBZPGF5X7HDEDDIRJ/46C3BE98-A616-4726-B060-23ADDD5602DD_1_201_a.jpeg Notebooks - Block Chain - what it is? - Block Chain My one page notes after taking a online class on Block Chain. https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/doodling-away monthly 0.5 2022-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/1631118485544-VSCOHHW45JWR78DQN8LP/jingyuNotebook2+1.png Notebooks - Doodling Away - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.jingyuli.net/notebooks/doodling-away-nxf32 monthly 0.5 2022-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/f69342aa-7b7f-4c00-9803-22cdc3bfda68/IMG_0076.jpg Notebooks - Fun-gi - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f387d26f6c62273ba1fe046/c8d49a35-840a-49d1-8d80-02f6ccdc1f70/IMG_0081.jpg Notebooks - Fun-gi - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.