Time Goes By, So Fast

It's been a week since the last blog entry, time goes by so fast.

This week's highlights:

1. Rethought about career development. http://www.douban.com/note/276145923/
2. Treated my friends a traditional Shaoxing meal.
3. Started to learn Ruby on Rails. http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
4. Started to read the book "Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design" by Giles Colborne.
5. Recorded some vocals. http://site.douban.com/shaohuan
6. Watched this Ted speech: http://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_the_key_to_success_grit.html
7. Followed Ahbei(founder of Douban) on Zhihu(Chinese version of Quora).
8. "我认为世界上不存在一流的人才，世界上只有存在一流的人才一定是学习能力，谦虚，把自己当平凡的人" --马云（Jack Ma）

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