Zephyr Zhao

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Profile

Nanjing · Shanghai · AI · business · creativity · growth

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I am Siqi Zhao, an ordinary person with a persistent curiosity. I believe action is the only reliable way to reduce anxiety and make real progress.

I care about specific people and specific things. I learn by observing, practicing, and staying close to reality. This site is my cyber notebook: a record of what I read, where I go, and what those experiences slowly make of me.

Identity

DEMAND IS THE MOST·RECKLESS IN THOUGHT, CAUTIOUS IN ACTION·SLOW IS FAST·NO DISCIPLINE, ONLY DESIRE·QUESTIONS BEFORE ANSWERS·FUZZY IN, JUDGMENT OUT·ANXIETY DIES WHEN I START·STABLE HABITS ARE SECURITY·BUILDING OVER CONSUMING·NO TEMPLATES, ONLY FRAMES·BUSY IS NOT PRODUCTIVE·CONTEXT CHANGES TRUTH·NOTHING HAS ONE CAUSE·LEAVE GAMES YOU CAN'T WIN·QUIET PLANS, LOUD RESULTS·MEANINGFUL LOSSES OVER EMPTY WINS·USER TO BUILDER·CONSULTING THE DEAD·TASTE IS COMPETITIVE EDGE·STORIES SELL THE MATH·AI AMPLIFIES, NEVER REPLACES·I OWN THE STRUCTURE·NAME IT CRUDELY·CLEAR WORDS ARE VALUE·OUTPUT PROVES INPUT·LIFE FIRST, CONTENT SECOND·SIMPLE THINGS, DONE OFTEN·COMPOUND THE LONG RUN·SUNK COSTS DON'T VOTE·SCARCE THINGS FIRST·PRESSURE IS A MATH ERROR·BIGGER DESIRE RULES·BALANCE IS FOR ORDINARY·PREPARED, THEN ADAPTIVE·OBSERVING AND ABSORBING·PROBABLY ON THE STUPID PEAK·QUIET, DEEP, FOCUSED·THINKING IS THE WORK·KNOWING ≠ DOING·ONE MAIN THING·NUMBERS BY DAY, STORIES BY NIGHT·BALANCE SHEETS FOR THE SOUL·THE LEDGER OF IDEAS·SAVING CURIOSITY, SPENDING SLEEP·PROFIT FROM CONFUSION·AN INVENTORY OF OBSESSIONS·DEBITS OF DOUBT, CREDITS OF SHIP·WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OF THOUGHT·AUDITING THE GAP BETWEEN THINK AND SHIP·THE TICKER OF A RESTLESS MIND·DEMAND IS THE MOST·RECKLESS IN THOUGHT, CAUTIOUS IN ACTION·SLOW IS FAST·NO DISCIPLINE, ONLY DESIRE·QUESTIONS BEFORE ANSWERS·FUZZY IN, JUDGMENT OUT·ANXIETY DIES WHEN I START·STABLE HABITS ARE SECURITY·BUILDING OVER CONSUMING·NO TEMPLATES, ONLY FRAMES·BUSY IS NOT PRODUCTIVE·CONTEXT CHANGES TRUTH·NOTHING HAS ONE CAUSE·LEAVE GAMES YOU CAN'T WIN·QUIET PLANS, LOUD RESULTS·MEANINGFUL LOSSES OVER EMPTY WINS·USER TO BUILDER·CONSULTING THE DEAD·TASTE IS COMPETITIVE EDGE·STORIES SELL THE MATH·AI AMPLIFIES, NEVER REPLACES·I OWN THE STRUCTURE·NAME IT CRUDELY·CLEAR WORDS ARE VALUE·OUTPUT PROVES INPUT·LIFE FIRST, CONTENT SECOND·SIMPLE THINGS, DONE OFTEN·COMPOUND THE LONG RUN·SUNK COSTS DON'T VOTE·SCARCE THINGS FIRST·PRESSURE IS A MATH ERROR·BIGGER DESIRE RULES·BALANCE IS FOR ORDINARY·PREPARED, THEN ADAPTIVE·OBSERVING AND ABSORBING·PROBABLY ON THE STUPID PEAK·QUIET, DEEP, FOCUSED·THINKING IS THE WORK·KNOWING ≠ DOING·ONE MAIN THING·NUMBERS BY DAY, STORIES BY NIGHT·BALANCE SHEETS FOR THE SOUL·THE LEDGER OF IDEAS·SAVING CURIOSITY, SPENDING SLEEP·PROFIT FROM CONFUSION·AN INVENTORY OF OBSESSIONS·DEBITS OF DOUBT, CREDITS OF SHIP·WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OF THOUGHT·AUDITING THE GAP BETWEEN THINK AND SHIP·THE TICKER OF A RESTLESS MIND·

School: Hohai University
Major: Financial Management
Based in: Nanjing / Shanghai
Languages: Chinese / English
Focus: AI, business, creativity, growth
Since: 2026
Cadence: Learning and building in public

Stranger, I am honored to have your attention. Next, please allow me to introduce myself again. As a practitioner, I am skeptical of the current higher education system, so I keep looking for and testing different possibilities, including but not limited to content creation, trading, and AI. The more I try now, the higher the probability that I can work less, leave the office earlier, and retire sooner in the future. As for daily interests, I like sleeping early, waking early, eating clean food, and working out. When I have time, I find a quiet place to sit, walk, read, or listen to podcasts. I love that kind of peaceful atmosphere.

Small Defaults

Hobby

Writing on Zhihu, reading books, and taking walks.

Habit

Writing a little, going to the gym, and trying to sleep early and wake up early.

Preference

Zero-sugar Coke, peaceful atmospheres, quiet rooms, and beautiful things in general.

Doing

Content creation, English, trading, a Lenovo internship, and studying AI. ps: and school.

Philosophy

Reality comes before concepts. Tools, notes, AI, platforms and identities only matter when they return to a real scene, solve a real demand, or sharpen a real judgment.

Value

I value what is true, clear, reusable and able to accumulate. A thing has value when it reduces confusion, answers a demand, enters action, or becomes an asset that can travel across contexts.

Worldview

The world is not an exam question. People, business, school and media are complex systems shaped by incentives, positions, language, power and lived experience.

Epistemology

I learn by distinguishing, questioning, restating and testing. A sentence is only reliable after I know its context, its target, its cost, and what happens when it meets reality.

Action

The cure for vague anxiety is a concrete next step. I prefer a rough first version, a real feedback loop, and a record that can be reviewed, revised and reused.

Signature

Read broadly enough to glimpse the past.

Stay curious.

Slow is fast.

The wind rises before the mountain rain.

There is no discipline, only a stronger desire.

Achievements that cannot be priced by the market may simply be private vanity.

2026

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Books

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Finished
Off Work at Four
A small reminder that life does not have to be arranged around exhaustion.
01Off Work at Four
Finished
A Life Plan with Ease
Notes on building a looser, calmer life system.
02A Life Plan with Ease
Finished
Game Theory
A useful lens for incentives, choices, and conflict.
03Game Theory
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Counselling for Toads
Robert de Board
A psychological story about seeing oneself more honestly.
04Counselling for Toads
Reading
Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Economics as a way to ask stranger and better questions.
05Freakonomics
Reading
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Ezra F. Vogel
History, reform, and the weight of decisions.
06Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Reading
The Green Lake Monster
A light shelf entry for curiosity and story.
07The Green Lake Monster
Reading
Writing Is a Craft
Sentences, structure, and the work behind clear expression.
08Writing Is a Craft

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