On life, product, tech and how we connect the dots.
It's time to recap my 2025 Q3. My primary focus remains in VCC coaching, around STEM and liberal arts subjects, and with Breakpoints.live, for connecting more builders, designing and (vibe) building cool solutions.
During Q2 and early Q3 of 2025, my primary focus remains in coaching people and teams, telling stories on and with builders, designing and building AI and Web3 products and startups.
感谢这个世界给过我所有的爱。从敬爱的爸爸妈妈，到爷爷奶奶、曾祖父曾祖母，到大家族的所有人，特别是启蒙老师陈老师，到我的人生伴侣。
My core personal branding is a Chinese-English bilingual entrepreneurship coach. My role at VillageCity.org (VCC) is magnifying this branding for K12 kids/parents. My inkkey.com CEO role is magnifying this branding for AI-driven entrepreneurship coaching. My Deputy Director role at breakpoints.live is magnifying this branding on tech design and consulting for corporate clients.
美国《外国情报监视法》（FISA）第702条款，Section 702 如何影响中国科技产业从业人员？下面是 DeepSeek (R1) 给出的解答。
With the grace and blessing from all the people who's been loving me, I ended 2024 by becoming the person I was truly meant to be.
在所有爱我之人的支持下，我的 2024 年获得了很大的进步，成为了我「应该」成为之人。
We explore the world by taking actions. We keep patching our thesis to leads us to take more meaningful actions, and keep exploring.
我们通过行动探索世界。我们不断更新自己的「thesis / 论点、洞察、投资理念」来引导我们采取更有意义的行动，然后继续探索。
标题：第一代 WeChat App 开发者带你坐最前排观察 TON 生态（英文）
As a first generation WeChat App/MiniApp builder, such as this photo vending machine using only WeChat APIs, I got the chance to witness and feel what's the Telegram (or TON) app ecosystem felt like in the past few months' project work and engagements in Hong Kong and Singapore. I got a few take-aways.
My wife is right. I need to get out of China in order to make meaningful changes to my work and our life. So we did it within a 10-days visit to Malaysia and Singapore.
A summary on Chance's work and life in Q2 2024. This is Status Update 2024 Q1 previously published on my China company's site chatek.co. From now on, I'm keeping this series on my personal blog.
家人告知：我的疏堂大哥蒋友基刚病故，且哥嫂也在不到一个月前病故，也十分感傷，也勾起我對「家」的懷念。
Question: Chance, how would you decide which product data shall be on-chain at current stage of Web3?
Answer: Solve behavior accounting and transaction settlement problems on-chain while keeping other product data processing, such as your mobile UX or chat bots, off-chain.
In this essay, we're going to look at similarities in engineering between blockchain app and serverless app development. So that teams who's been working with serverless stacks can map out an engineering, product or resource governance road-maps towards any web3 products.
如果你发现了新东西，有很大的可能会被指控为某种形式的异端。
Whenever I am asked, “What is your biggest take-away in your journey to becoming a product manager?”, I am now able to answer, “make sure you wrap your teams’ conversation around The Trio of Product Management”, or “产品管理的三驾马车” in Chinese.
Suppose you have 100 people on earth who know you, then you have 102 versions of you, the true you, the you as you know now, and the 100 different you as known by others. By putting time axis into the equation, you shall know who you are, where you are and when you are.
彼得.杜鲁克 / Peter Drucker 谈企业社会责任, Corporate Social Responsibilities，简称 CSR。在《管理的前沿》(1986)，彼得杜鲁克写道，
公司的的首要责任是为支撑将来的运营创造足够的利润。如果这个社会责任没有实现，那么此公司也无能去实现其它社会责任……公司的标准社会责任……就是把一个社会问题转变为市场机会和经济收入，并把这种努力转变为所投入的生产资源、人力和技能、薪酬丰厚的工作岗位以及财富。
My comments on a shared article By Noah Kulwin, The Internet Apologizes… Even those who designed our digital world are aghast at what they created. A breakdown of what went wrong — from the architects who built it.
(个人立场，如像外交部发言，纯属巧合)
应「顺德创新创业公益基金会」的邀请，我从他们的第四期资助项目开始试着担任入驻创业团队的导师。期待能把接下来沟通也变成一种自我教育，发现并总结一些我认为属于经典的内容。
你在做自己的企业吗？那么你首先有一个非常重要的决定要做，因为它将影响你的任何其它决定。无论你怎样做，你绝对必须先搞清楚你打算用什么风格建设你的公司和业务，并用这个决定来指导你的全部努力，否则，等待你的只有灾难。
Thanks to Mette, I joined International Coaching Week Guangzhou event last night and listened to some great life coaches’ talks. Their talks resonated a lot to my personal journey as I approached my 40 years of life.
小时候记得老家村里有组织盂兰盆节法事的传统，一般在祖屋出来的小广场。老爸说爷爷在世的时候每年都捐钱给组织方，他们会在祖屋隔壁的小广场搭棚、展览鬼画，还有民乐队整夜吹拉弹唱。
我读大学时修了两门经济课程：宏观经济和微观经济。宏观经济满是「低失业率导致通货膨胀」等现实中不太能成立的理论，不过微观经济则是酷又有用。里头都是讨论供需间关系而且真正可用的概念。举例来说，如果你的对手降价而你不跟进，你的产品需求就会减少。
微软的旗舰电子表格软件 Excel 的 5.0 版在 1993 年问世。这套软件很巨大，需要整整 15MB 的硬盘空间。当时我们还保有自己的第一台 20MB 的 P 硬盘(大概是 1985 年)，所以 15MB 当然感觉很大。
Chance Jiang's rambling on life, product, tech and how we connect the dots.