Xiangpeng Wan

I went to see Amy in London to look for room to work together.

Two coding agents sat down for 8 rounds of a Harvard-style negotiation competition, scored on hard numbers.

Heng asked his supervisor whether he could buy a house in central London.

At McKinsey, her job was helping companies transform: growth stories when the economy is good, layoffs and cost cutting when it is not.

When a Chinese company first came to London to build an enterprise business, it hired a batch of local salespeople for the relationships they held.

Huang graduated from Peking University in 2014 and joined Google, landing in London because of visa timing.

A text-based reconciliation used to take Amy three days; Excel couldn't handle it, so someone had to check it line by line.

The day he left Salesforce, the company offered Zheng Qian another 150k raise to keep him.

A failed startup, failed investments, failed research, failed PhD applications.

He led an AI team at an investment bank, but most of the products died in compliance review.

A gaming addict who failed several courses in his sophomore year and nearly got expelled, barely reaching 1900 on the Dota ladder.

The robotics final pitted HIT Shenzhen against its own main campus.

A live demo froze in front of a client.

A customer relations lead at a big cloud company in London: soothing the customer first is actually the wrong move?

Mark waited tables at a Korean restaurant, ten hours a day; then spent a week in New York on less than 30 hours of sleep.

Nobody on earth can tell you exactly how much cobalt traded last year.

On video calls, Aya deliberately keeps her camera off and lowers her voice.

Provincial first prizes in both the math and informatics olympiads, Tsinghua's School of Economics and Management, a postdoc at Harvard Business School.

AI can blast a thousand emails in one night, yet it cannot close a single client.

One day your agent starts giving wrong answers.

She missed the Beijing Film Academy cutoff by a single point, then kept falling at the final step: repeat exams, grad-school attempts, applications abroad.

I used to think the hard part of getting two agents to talk was the protocol.

She studied law and economics at the same time as an undergrad, did law at Northwestern, and landed at one of China's most elite 'Red Circle' law firms.

I wanted to do a 30-minute workout and stood in my room with zero motivation.

A friend built a clean, complete product in a week — two years ago that was two months of work for a small team.

A young woman stands in line outside a luxury boutique, glancing up every few seconds at the bag in the window.

It's 3 AM and you can't sleep, while the person who hurt you is sleeping soundly.

An argument you didn't win replays in your head for half a day.

Companies preach mission.

Every good thing reveals its bad half six months later.

If 'the Way' is about not stepping onto the battlefield, then 'the Craft' is about how to fight once you must.

Two product managers fought head-to-head for two weeks over the same project.

Most people who have heard of both Claude Agent SDK and OpenAI Agents SDK share the vague feeling that 'Claude seems stronger' without being able to say where.

We tell ourselves mature couples don't fight.

Wang Yangming once told a student: you see everyone on the street as a saint because you're playing the saint yourself.

You think your past is pushing you into who you are now.

Large language models are stripping the halo from knowledge work.

You've been thinking about happiness too thinly.

Anxious, avoidant, secure, fearful.

The commentator says the player must be feeling the pressure now.

A bat and a ball cost 110 dollars total.

It's 11 PM and you just wanted to check tomorrow's weather.

Every time you give, there's a condition attached—one you never said out loud.

That person around you who never says no, never gets angry, and swallows everything—they might not be as nice as they seem.

Procrastination isn't a time management problem or a moral failing—it's about how you relate to yourself.

Many problems in the AI industry aren't technical problems—they're systemic structural problems.

When AI pushes knowledge work toward zero marginal cost, how do you rebuild who you are?

Three fascinating psychology insights: how to hack your habits through identity, why we need delayed gratification, and how to protect yourself by downgrading criticism to information.

From architecture and setup to config, session management, multi-agent playbooks, and security—a hands-on guide after diving deep into OpenClaw.

A conversation with Michael: from the Agricultural Revolution and the Age of Discovery to AI Agents—history has no rewards for bystanders; how ordinary people can use Agents to define the next era.