Freedom on WM's Blog

Twenty Years of Coincidence, Not Twenty Years of Oppression

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:30:00 +0800

30-second summary: In episode 6 of the Chinese podcast et Voice, Lumi describes leaving a conventional track to become a full-time polar expedition guide. What’s worth writing down isn’t “quit her job, went to Antarctica.” It’s four counterintuitive judgments: her predicament wasn’t oppression but alignment concealing the absence of self-direction; her sense of agency wasn’t reasoned into existence but purchased with a job opportunity she lost permanently; the criterion that turns “fleeing” into “departing” isn’t a healed wound but having a next destination — her second conflict was worse, and she was calmer; and the premise she named her own podcast after, the search for a “good place,” she ended up falsifying herself.

What Should I Do With the Life I Have Left?

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800

30-second summary: I built a tiny life-countdown website that turns the abstract idea of “the future is long” into a timeline you can actually see. That made me revisit a question that the past few years of pessimism and FIRE-number-crunching had quietly replaced — not “how do I retire as soon as possible / avoid getting hurt by this era,” but “what do I actually want to trade the next several decades for.” This post doesn’t have an answer; it’s just a record of starting to ask that question again.

Why I Wanted to Become a Digital Nomad, and Why I Went Home Anyway

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:58:16 +0800

30-second summary: I seriously planned and tried living as a digital nomad, only to find that frequent movement itself constantly ate up attention and digital-world overhead — leaving me with less capacity to actually perceive reality. In the end I went home: not giving up on faraway places, but realizing that movement isn’t the goal, experience is. Home can be a low-friction base that lets my attention go to whatever world is actually worth exploring, physical or digital/intellectual.