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On the homepage of iamjiamingliu.com, I call myself a builder, leader, and thinker.

My projects show the builder side. My leadership roles show the leader side. This blog is my attempt at showing my thinker side.

“Thinker” is a grand word. But simply, this is a collection of deeper-than-resume narratives: the journey and architecture behind my projects and endeavors, plus some thoughts on tech, and on my world view.

I write concisely and informally. Curse words are used strategically to emphasize. You may notice that many of the things described in my blogs are events that happened at least a year ago, and that's intentional: I cannot write ongoing things due to their volatile nature, and also because I haven't had time to think about them yet.

有时候用中文写点，我文笔不咋地，毕竟我中文只是小学文凭。凑活看吧哈哈

I want to especially highlight the "World View" section of my blogs. Yes, I am a tech guy, so you'd imagine I only talk about tech and is quite insensitive to the rest of the real world. But, from my unexplained penchant to devour BBC, DWW, 60 minutes documentaries; 柴静; biographies; history; and BBC nature, I guess I have developed a pretty strong and sentimental view on the greater society and world we live in. I have plenty of close friends to confide my passion for technology to, but folks around me don't watch documentaries or read books as much, so blogging here is the only channel I can make my voice heard.

你挑几篇读一下。你可以说，我忧国忧民，杞人忧天，瞎操功夫。你也可以说，此儿其实素有大义耶。看你怎么看啦~ 我任你评说

By the way, I greatly resent LinkedIn guru style posts or ChatGPT generated generic stuff. Thus, my writings use concrete examples and claims when applicable to avoid being cliché and corny.

I hope no matter where you are in tech, whether as a college kid or experienced professional, my writing can offer some helpful insights. And I welcome your comments and thoughts! Happy to chat about any topic, technical or world view, via any one of my social media listed in Contact Me

Why am I spending all the effort to write all of this?

• If you know me well, I hope my writings can strengthen our understanding of each other.
• If you know me barely, I hope my writings can show you the deeper side of myself. Because from my observation, people who know me at the surface level are prone to classify me as a troll. With my words, I indeed do that for comical effects, and I'm not apologetic about it, because otherwise I would degenerate into another dull man.
• If you don't know me yet and want to determine if I would be a good new friend, colleague, team member, or whatever reason, these writings supplement the thoughts and bigger part of me besides the bullet points list of experience on my resume.