## 他有可能问我什么 *Why do you want to go to Stanford? Why are you interested in Stanford specifically? What aspects of the community or programs appeal to you? How do you hope to contribute to the Stanford community if you’re admitted?* Stanford is a very prestigious school that have a very high ranking. I think this is a fact that we cannot avoid. Everybody knows ranking doesn't mean everything, and the fame of a university doesn't matter that much; they tell me what matters is how you spend your time, and it's really more about what you do than what school you are in. But then i ask myself, why do people still all apply to Stanford anyway? And then I realized, it's not about the ranking or fame itself, but what the fame attracts -- the density of brilliant minds -- and all that they bring. Their ideas, ambitions, posiibilities. Those are the things that's truly valuable. Not the school or the teaching, but the environment of ideas and people. Here's what I mean: In most environments like where I am right now, if you want to start something ambitious, you're more likely an outlier. You have to convince people your vision isn't crazy. I am not being arrogant, but we have to kind of accept the fact of the fact of the power law, and the fact that 80% of the people are just average level, no matter which metric you use. However, at Stanford, the density of birlliant minds change things. You never know when you put the brilliant minds of our planet in the same campus. It's incredible. Ideas don't add together -- they multiply, and raise to the power of each other. That's what's powerful about Stanford. What do you do in your free time? I learn and build stuff mostly. *Tell me about your school life and expereince at schools.* Despite lots of wonderful aspects and moments I've had here, if I have to be honest, I don't particularly enjoy my time here. *Where do you envision yourself to be in 10 years?* Ok I can expect a common answer of living in the Sillicon vallye, startup founder, software engineer blablabla. Sure. I'd love to try that out. But if it turned out I cannot build a great product as great as the iphone or design a new tech as revoluionizing as LLM, I probably wouldn't stay ther for long. I might move on tho explore the world. Recoonect with nature. To be homeless in a city. To hike across a continent. That's what will define my being. Especially in a time of abundance in the future, of time and energy, expereince instead of possessions is what matters. things that truly makes me feel alive. what are you passionate about, and what drives you? Building great new things and share with the world. ## 我想展示什么 人格魅力 Charisma 积极有热情的喜欢说话想要分享的人格 -- 装也要装出来 真诚，不像是准备的，像是非常真诚有激情的分享和交流 --- For me, educaiton and schooling are two very different things. This might be the biggest lesson I've learned from my 12 years of experience in schools all aroudn the world. Education is about empowerment. It's telling students in all kinds of ways that thew orld is big and you are free to explore and contribute to it. but that's not what i experienced in classrooms. 1. impartation of knwoledge --> inefficient / harmful 2. teaching of learning abilities --> non-existent 3. empowerment If I have to name one aspect or area, in this world, that I have most expertise and experience over, it must be education -- simply beacuse I have spent the most time through it. I think this is a really good justification of my major and my whole life interest bascially. Most reformers trying to reform educaitno have no idea what's going on in the classroom. I am a very self-driven learner what do you learn? Learning something, some area of knowledge. Don't appreicate the separation of subjects -- it's artificial and designed for the linear minds. I can't really pin down a traditioanl area of knowledge -- those important being left out by school but are the most important for humanity's future e.g. system dynacmis; love & relationships; technological literacy tools are extension of human beings --- ## What did you actually do??? Personal task management system 1. school & chores 2. personal -- learning & building 3. with people / with nature (connection with the world) exploring a new cafe, taking photographs in a new corner of the city doing sports, palying badmintion or simply doing nothing but sitting together with thsoe i love --- Larc Mini -- switching context Learning in Public Community School TV The Flying Dutchman newspaper Writing book Personal IP / logo, my website, newsletters, blogs, knowledge vault --- I don't really talk about my projects, my apps, and my books and websites, those are broing stuff, you can know them by going to my website and scrolling through my blogs and notes. But here I want share with you something unqiuely about myself that you won't find there. Let's talk about something exciting, I felt liek those are all too boring. Ok so there's this exciting idea I've been thinking about these days -- I have been doing a proejct for my entire school to take a picture of the back of their heads of every one on campus. something that you are truly excited about. I have been helping to rewrite the economics course? redesigning the economics course not based on scarcity but on abundance -- of intelligence and matters. rethinking out hidden mindsets and assumptions save the planet and change how we think rethinking the application process itself -- [[Intelligence of Humanity (IoH)]] my pain points, others boom AMSL, boom EUV, absolutely valuable for the entire computer industry.