Notes on capital allocation, enterprise AI, technology and everyday life, alongside the stories and questions behind these projects.
SIMON LIU / PROJECTS & NOTES
Things I make, questions I follow.
A collection of projects, tools and reading experiments, with research notes from the blog alongside them.
Built out of curiosity, and improved along the way.
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Start with a band you love, then follow the connections between styles, artists and records into unfamiliar corners of rock music.
A learning map inspired by Alice: follow a question down a new branch while keeping the original thread in view.
Lay out salaries, pensions, children’s expenses and larger purchases year by year, and see where your family may need room to manoeuvre.
Trace the ideas, people and arguments running through a book. Follow a thread across the map, then return to the passages behind it.
Explore a proposed workflow for compiling enterprise procedures into skills, references and scripts, with dependency graphs, validation gates and execution monitoring.
A Chinese reading index connecting concept cards, historical cases, book figures and relationships across five books, with section reading pages and references to the original sources.
A Chinese reading library connecting concept cards, historical cases, source sections and figures from two Chanlun texts, with page references and a relationship graph.
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QUESTIONS IN PRACTICE
Three ways to explore
Each project starts with a question. These short routes explain what to inspect, what a result can tell you, and where to return to the evidence.
Family Retirement Cash Flow Calculator
Find the transition years before asking whether retirement is affordable
Mark retirement dates, annuity starts, children's independence and major purchases. Change one group of assumptions at a time and explain the chart from its yearly figures. A positive year-end balance does not rule out a cash shortage within the year.
Read the full case →Follow the Rabbits
Follow a question without losing the original thread
Turn a broad subject into something you want to be able to do. Open a branch for an unfamiliar idea, save other questions for later, then return to the main route and check your explanation against original material.
Read the full case →Rock Atlas
From a familiar band to a connection you can explain
Start with a familiar artist, explore a style and a release, then inspect one relationship's type, direction and source. Shared tags suggest listening paths; they do not establish historical influence.
Read the full case →Make something. Then keep making it better.