Counting from the day I left the corporate world, it's somehow been four full years — an entire second university, attended without noticing. New friends are always curious about my path — a literally-no-calculus liberal arts grad — "so what did you do before?" As 2026 arrives, let me dust off the past; maybe it sparks something for you. 自离开职场后，满打满算到现在，竟四年了，不知不觉上了一次人生大学。很多新认识的朋友，都比较好奇我的经历——大学不学高数的 literally 文科生——「你之前做了什么？」OK，值 2026 之际，吹吹过往经历的灰尘，或许也会给感兴趣的伙伴带来一些的灵感。
I was once a Beijing drifter and a Shanghai drifter — lived in Xierqi, lived in Jing'an, and I'm lucky to have had that corporate chapter. After leaving, dealing with ever more different people and colliding with the world again and again, I slowly grew new branches of myself. 我曾是一名北漂和沪漂，住过西二旗也住过静安。我很幸运能拥有这段职场时光。离开职场后，跟越来越多不同的人打交道、跟世界不断打招呼和碰撞，我逐渐长出更多个人枝桠。
In these four years: 1️⃣ My footprints covered Dali, Chiang Mai, and Bali, wandering through digital nomad circles, indie developer circles, and blockchain communities — then gradually finding my own voice: the first China Digital Nomad Conference in Guangzhou, the second in Huangshan, and in 2025 a co-built offline nomad community, tasting every flavor of it. The closest friends I have today, the ones who changed me most, were nearly all met inside these communities and projects. Without this chapter, there is no present me. 在这四年里：1️⃣ 足迹遍布大理、清迈、巴厘岛。在不同数字游民圈、独立开发者圈、区块链社区串门，后来逐渐身体力行去发出自己的声音，在广州做了首届数字游民大会，在黄山做了第二届数字游民大会，2025 年还尝试合作落地了一个线下数字游民社区，遍尝酸甜。如今，我身边非常要好的朋友、对我影响非常大的朋友，几乎都是在不同社区不同项目里结识的。可以说，没有这段经历，不会有现在的我。
2️⃣ More and more overseas friends are curious about China. At the first post-pandemic Nomad Summit, I hosted and spoke at the only side event about Chinese digital nomads; later I took ColivePlanet partners to visit Shenzhen's tech companies; recently, at the muShanghai Tech Burning Man, I gathered with a thousand players from home and abroad. These journeys let me sit face-to-face with front-line developers and founders, and deepen bonds with project initiators who trust me. More importantly — I've gotten used to hearing foreigners say "You're the best." (laughs) 2️⃣ 越来越多的海外伙伴对中国感到好奇。在疫情之后恢复的首届 Nomad Summit 里，我主持和分享了唯一一场关于中国数字游民的 Side Event；之后又带 ColivePlanet 的伙伴去探访了深圳科创企业；不久前，在科技火人节 muShanghai 跟千名海内外玩家们齐聚一堂……这些历程，让我能跟一线开发者、创业者面对面；还能一次又一次跟那些信赖我的项目发起人们加深羁绊。更重要的是，现在已经习惯听外国人说 "You're the best" 了（笑）。
3️⃣ Maybe AI is a bubble — but it has genuinely let me feel the thrill of riding the wave. These days I'm devoted to a little crab that led me into the astonishing world of AI. Right now I focus on AI model aggregation and a GEO Agent business. It's as if I've re-lived freshman through senior year, with "teachers" of different subjects passing on lessons hand to hand, letting me build a new worldview while exploring. Here is the first subject — the one that taught me the most. 3️⃣ 或许 AI 会是一场泡沫，但它真切让我体验了乘风的快感。现在，我热切地喜爱着一只小螃蟹，就是它带我进入了惊艳的 AI 世界。当前，我正专注 AI 模型聚合业务，GEO Agent 业务。……到现在，我真的就像重新经历了一次大一到大四，不同「科目」的「小老师」们言传身教着，让我边探索边形成新的世界观。以下是收获第一大的学科。
Psychology, Lesson 1: Every Choice Is Self-Expression 心理学科 1：无论选择 A 或 B，都是自我本性的一种表达
Our words, our bodies, our refusals, our unconscious hesitations — all of it is expression. This was one of my biggest realizations this year, and it came from helping my English tutor recruit students. Many friends know I've practiced spoken English intensively for nearly two years — it brought opportunities and confidence — so people often ask for my tutor (only ¥70 an hour, far below market rate for the level). 我们的言语，我们的身体，我们的拒绝、不经意间的犹豫，都是一种表达。这是今年我收获最大的感悟之一，源于帮我的外教口语老师招生这件事。很多朋友都知道，我一直高强度练口语持续近两年，收获了很多机会，人也更自信了。因此大家常常会找我推荐合作的老师——毕竟我的口语老师一小时课只需要 70 元！价格远低于市面上同等水平的外教。
At a sharing session I met a woman who kept asking how to practice speaking, then messaged me question after question: Can the tutor teach business English? Is it online? Could a lesson be just 30 minutes? I answered everything; when I mentioned the trial class cost a few dozen yuan, she never replied again. No judgment — but through her hesitation, circling, and final silent refusal, I suddenly saw: this goal wasn't painful enough for her, not yet a necessity. She had no "I'm on stage tomorrow" urgency. She could wait — until the day she has to learn. 后来，在一场分享中我认识了一位女士，她反复询问我如何练习口语，并在我帮老师招生时，私聊连问了好几个问题：可以教商务英语吗？是线上吗？可不可以只上 30 分钟呢？……我一一回答，并表明试听课需要几十元后，她再也没有回复。我无意评判，但在反复回答问题时，我感受到她的犹豫、徘徊和最后沉默的拒绝，忽然意识到：或许这个课题对她而言还不够「痛」，不够「刚需」——比如，她没有第二天就要上台发言的紧迫！她可以「等」，等到「不得不学习」那一天。
Me, back then? It was precisely because a full-English event was one month away — the sting of "I'm afraid I'll fail" — that I started sitting at my desk every single day. How often, facing things that seem neither important nor urgent, do we also choose silence? I keep shouting about becoming a serious creator and never act on it (laughs). "Opportunity favors the prepared" — but the deadline of that "preparation" is often too far to see, so we quietly give up the possibility, give up planting the seed. If I hadn't started that painful, intensive practice two years ago, would today's opportunities exist? Choosing not to do something is also a choice — and it broadcasts our current feelings and our world. 当年的我，就是因为一个月后要去参加全英活动、做全英分享，「害怕做不好」的感受扎痛了我，才开始每天雷打不动坐在桌前。很多时候，当我们面临一些乍一看没那么重要、又没那么紧急的事情，又何尝不是选择沉默？像我，一直喊着要好好做自媒体、要成为大博主，但一直没有行动（笑）。「机会总是留给有准备的人」，这个「准备」的期限，有时候真的一眼很难望到，于是我们总很容易就放弃了这个「可能」，放弃种下一颗种子。如果两年前我没有痛定思痛开始高强度练习，如何能得到现在的一些机会？选择不做某事，也是一种选择。这个选择，正传递着我们当下的感受和世界。
Psychology, Lesson 2: Truly Expressive, Life-Filled People Will Inevitably "Found" Something 心理学科 2：真的有很强表达欲、生命力充沛的人，一定会「创业」的
A tie-dye shop in Dali or a factory in Shenzhen; physical or virtual; tiny or huge — each carries its founder's own expression, and in essence there's no difference. "Only mulberry silk, ever" or "hand-sewn by old masters only"; "hidden in the alleys, no influencer visits" or "chasing traffic, never repeat customers"… "Beyond taste there is nothing" — a line from an essay on surviving the AI era — applies here too. The moment a brand is born, it carries out the shout inside its founder's heart. Every founder who has ever moved me had, without exception, their own choices and their own insistence. 在大理开一家扎染小店，跟在深圳开一家工厂，不论是实体、虚拟，还是小店、大店，ta 都会有属于自己的表达。本质没有任何区别，都是创始人的选择。「坚持只用桑蚕丝」or「坚持请老师傅手工缝制」；「不需要探店，要隐在市井」or「追求流量，不求回头客」……「审美之外别无外物」，这句话出自一篇讲「AI 时代如何自处」的文章，用在这里也一样。每一家品牌创建的那一刻，就是把创始人心中的那句呐喊带了出来。我见到的、让人为之感染的创始人，无一例外，都有着自己的选择和坚持。
Psychology, Lesson 3: No One Is Coming 心理学科 3：No one is coming
"Circumstances turn with the mind." Every setback, joy, and wound along the way is a moment to see yourself through the external — no "other person" makes you become anything; outside events only water the seeds already deep within. A few months ago the business was growing fast and I was on it at least 12 hours a day — genuinely happy, yet no longer "me." Thinking about it over meals, dreaming about it at night: I had become a machine. 「境随心转，相由心生。」一路上遇见的挫折、喜悦、伤痛，其实都是通过外在照见自己的时机——其实并没有「外人」让你变成某种样子，而是外部事件激发了我们内心深处的种子。前几个月业务增长非常快，我一天至少 12 个小时都扑在业务上——这确实让我很开心，但我不再是「我」了——吃饭在想，梦里在想，我变成了一台机器！
It got better. How? I caught my own fixed belief — "I must sacrifice all my time and energy to keep the business running at full speed" — and in that instant I saw my "dedication" wasn't dedication at all, just fear: fear of losing control, fear of loss. Only when I admitted I can't control everything, and could accept with some calm that "the business could end at any moment," did I truly step off that speeding train. When I later shared the whole inner journey with a housemate, she was shocked: "All I noticed lately was your sour face — all that happened?!" Indeed. Inside, I had crossed eighty-one trials; outside, the world still saw the expressionless Monkey King pinned under the mountain. 🤣 还好最后改善了。怎么改善的？因为我发现了自己的思维定式——「必须把全部时间和精力献祭掉，才能保证业务持续高速运转」——这一刻我知道，我的「投入」并不是真的投入，只是一种害怕。害怕无法掌控，害怕「失去」。当我发现这个定式并承认自己无法掌控，并且能相对更心平气和地接受「业务随时可能结束」，放下了「必须保持」的执念，才算真的从这台高速运转的列车里下车了。后来跟同在屋檐下的朋友分享心路历程，她很惊讶：「最近只觉得你的脸很臭，你居然还发生了这么多事呢？！」确实如此。于我而言，内心小世界已经过了九九八十一难，但外界看到的依旧是那个被压在花果山下、面无表情的孙猴子。🤣
To be continued… Note: this is not a series promoting "the wilderness." I'm deeply grateful for my corporate years — they taught me professionalism and how to see the world from inside a large organization. Off the rails, I've lived through more panic and fear than I ever imagined — a high-intensity experiment in human flourishing. If you're curious about this experiment, follow along. to be continued... **Note: 这并不是一系列宣传旷野的文章。我非常感激曾经在职场的日子，教会我专业素养、从一个大组织去看世界。在「轨道」外，经历了很多超出我想象的慌张、恐惧，体验了一场超高强度的「人类丰荣实验」。如果你也好奇这场实验，follow 或是关注我吧～
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