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Bill Mei

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’15’20’25
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50 from 8 Jul 2013 to 1 Jul 2025
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now and then
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2025 2

  1. How AI taught me to be a better human
  2. Self-love is not selfish

2024 16

  1. Daydreams decide your destiny
  2. Being loved is a burden
  3. Why early success online is a trap
  4. Neuroscience reasons for what AI cannot do (yet)
  5. Love requires grieving your expectations
  6. A type of love we don’t talk about
  7. Healthy habits require courage, not sacrifice
  8. We should teach Shakespeare in modern English
  9. Common ways startups fail to make what people want (and what to do instead)
  10. BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) hurts communication and hinders innovation
  11. Most ideas cannot be explained simply
  12. All great civilizations work from home
  13. ChatGPT turns every user into a power user
  14. Trust your Tests
  15. Double opt-in introductions
  16. How companies trick you into overpaying

2023 4

  1. The real purpose of History
  2. How to spend money on your friends without it looking like bribery
  3. Why do we fantasize about the apocalypse?
  4. Using graph theory to prioritize life goals

2022 4

  1. Hosting an arts & crafts and game show birthday party
  2. Why dating apps don’t work
  3. Friendships form via shared context, not shared activities
  4. Thoughts on Jealousy

2021 1

  1. Build a bigger engine, not a smaller fuel tank

2020 12

  1. Creating Crew
  2. I made an N95-level mask at home, and you can too
  3. I tried 21 diet and exercise programs. None of them worked. Except for one.
  4. Book Review: Reinforcement Learning by Sutton and Barto
  5. Canada is second place
  6. Why Blog?
  7. 3 quick hacks to make video calls less fatiguing
  8. Vulnerability is Not Enough
  9. Prisons of the Mind
  10. Idea Club
  11. Building my own gym
  12. Learning Night

2019 1

  1. The Problem with the Case Method

2018 1

  1. I interviewed 14 expert marketers to learn their secrets. Here’s what I discovered.

2017 1

  1. How I got my dream job

2015 2

  1. How To Get More Creative: Strategies Successful Entrepreneurs Use To Find Breakthroughs
  2. Bob and Doug

2014 3

  1. Slaying the Dragon
  2. How I hacked the SAT and raised my score by 1000 points in 3 months
  3. The Fear of Falling

2013 3

  1. What chess competitions taught me about startups
  2. What I learned from learning Spanish in 4 months
  3. A Flood of Luck