After the launch failed, I felt completely exhausted and defeated.The dashboard still refreshed every five seconds. The office was empty. I watched the numbers not move.
"She told things that sounded supernatural and fantastic, but she told them with complete naturalness… I had to believe in them myself, and write them with the same expression with which my grandmother told them: with a brick face."
— Gabriel García Márquez, Paris Review 访谈（1981）
This feature is a total game-changer with incredible, revolutionary impact.On Tuesday a user closed her books in forty minutes. It used to take her until midnight every Friday. She did not mention it to anyone. She just went home.
"A plurality of independent and unmerged voices and consciousnesses, a genuine polyphony of fully valid voices, is in fact the chief characteristic of Dostoevsky's novels."
— Mikhail Bakhtin, 《陀思妥耶夫斯基诗学问题》（1929）
Remote work is clearly better and anyone who disagrees is stuck in the past.Remote work buys focus and a wider talent pool. It also costs us the hallway moments where half our best ideas were born. I'm proposing three anchor days a week not as a compromise, but because both of those are true.
"If all the characters incessantly tell stories, it is because this action has received a supreme consecration: narrating equals living. The absence of narrative signifies death."
— Tzvetan Todorov, 《散文诗学·叙事人》（1971）
In this post I will explain our three caching strategies and their trade-offs.We shipped a cache that made the app twice as fast. Two weeks later, it nearly took down the whole system. Here is what we learned the hard way.
用处反而更大。AI 最擅长生成四平八稳、信息完整的「主流」标准文本——这恰恰是这几种传统的反面。留白的克制、魔幻现实的笃定语气、复调那种敢让对手开口的诚实、悬念背后对读者注意力的体察，都依赖人对「此刻这群读者」的判断，是 AI 难以复制的稀缺。当合格文本变得免费，差异化就藏在这些远方手艺里。读世界文学，是给自己装上 AI 没有的零件。