Reflections on a Good Life

I often get a lot of thoughts in the shower, then forget them right after. I have to sit down and think again to recall what was actually important.

This week has been my best in the past two weeks, and it feels worth recording. Why?

A relatively regular schedule: sleep before 3am, wake at 9am. Eat before 2pm, then walk by the river and in the park. Focus hard on the product in the afternoon. When I get tired around dusk, make some tea. Keep working at night. Around 9:30pm, go run 3km outdoors. Eat dinner at 10pm. (Thinking about it, meal times are still a bit irregular. The rest is okay. I could sleep earlier and wake earlier.)
Keep building. Don’t let fear drive the day. Even if fear shows up, work through it by continuing to build and adjusting my mindset, while also studying good products and asking how my own product can be constructed to catch up.
Today I snapped back a bit: even if many people are doing similar things, or I started late, that doesn’t mean there’s zero opportunity. I still need to find the right target users, build real differentiation, and think about why someone would choose me. As an indie developer, it’s hard to win by pure speed or resources against teams, but I can be myself.
Renovating my personal homepage, and continuously writing these small thoughts, genuinely heals me.
What is a good life? Writing, reading, exercising, sunlight, good food, and a good routine. That’s basically it. But so often I forget these because I’m always “on the way” to something else. Distinguishing goals from means matters. AI is a means, not the purpose of being human. Don’t get it backwards. Make good work, and live a good life.