# Writing by David Jiang

Essays on technology, markets, psychology, Chinese thought, and hidden structure. Some pieces are bilingual (English / 中文). Each post is available as Markdown at its URL with a `.md` suffix.

- [预制菜](https://dj.theory-a.com/writing/yu-zhi-cai) (2026-02-03): 每次想到预制菜
- [姥姥, 你要比我年轻了](https://dj.theory-a.com/writing/lao-lao) (2026-01-24): 姥姥，请允许我这样唤你
- [Tired Gods](https://dj.theory-a.com/writing/tired-gods) (2025-11-26): Somewhere in a high-rise, a woman hammers a piece of pork flat. Thwack. Thwack. The violence is precise. Her children hide in the corner, tracking the rhythm.
- [Promise](https://dj.theory-a.com/writing/promise) (2025-04-30): 你点头，却见光晕正从她指缝流逝。
- [Everything I've Learned from Figgie](https://dj.theory-a.com/writing/figgie-lesson) (2025-02-18): Lessons from a Jane Street trading game.
- [Tower of Bones](https://dj.theory-a.com/writing/tower-of-bones) (2025-02-06): 让爱不再是债务，让生命不必成为祭品
- [What is Overachievement?](https://dj.theory-a.com/writing/what-is-overachievement) (2024-12-02): The price of anything is what we sacrifice to achieve it.
- [Stories and Vectors](https://dj.theory-a.com/writing/stories-and-vectors) (2024-11-25): Who we are is who we are becoming
- [Truth is Toxic to Most Companies](https://dj.theory-a.com/writing/truth-is-toxic) (2024-11-05): Truth is counter-intuitively toxic to most companies.
- [Gumption Trap Cheatsheet](https://dj.theory-a.com/writing/gumption-trap-cheatsheet) (2023-08-15): Avoiding the setbacks and hangups that cause us to give up completely.
- [A UX Manifesto Through Quotes](https://dj.theory-a.com/writing/ux-manifesto) (2023-06-15): Favorite quotes
- [Bookshelf](https://dj.theory-a.com/writing/bookshelf) (2023-05-15): Influential books