Xinran Ma

Quit my corporate job for a different life.

Sharing personal AI + Design insights at

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And in doing so, it continually reflects you back to yourself.

You come to know yourself more and more, until at one point, business and self become one.

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Business Lesson #20:

Business isn't only about making money and growth.

It's a spiritual practice about life itself.

Because business constantly makes you face people and face emotions, connecting, colliding, and conversing with others.

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How can we see the bigger picture if all we stare at, hours a day, is a phone screen?

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Often, either the solution will naturally appear, or you'll realize the problem was never really a problem to begin with.

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Business Lesson #17:

When you feel frustrated or anxious about a problem, don't rush to solve it.

Rest, breathe, meditate, go outside if you can, embrace nature, and let your mind settle.

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Today is the first day of the second half of 2026.

It’s a good time to reflect on how the first half went.

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And through this, you continually see yourself more clearly, coming to know yourself better and better, until finally, business and self become one.

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Business Lesson #15:

Business isn't just about making money and growth.

It's like a spiritual practice about life itself.

Because business constantly forces you to face people, face emotions, to connect, clash, and converse with others.

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@shivamdwn 🙏

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Business Lesson #14:

The first step in entrepreneurship is cultivating ourselves.

Our physical health, emotional well-being, mindset, and energy.

If our inner state is in chaos, even short-term financial success will come with a lot of inner tension and lasting anxiety.

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Testing an AI workflow that turns images into simple animated videos, using some images from: https://t.co/B4bgb0FTyE

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@Teddarific OMG. This is amazing!

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Just published an article explaining Git concepts for beginners (non-engineers), since it’s becoming an essential topic for anyone building with AI: https://t.co/B4bgb0FTyE

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@bearliu 写得真好。有共鸣。

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Everything about this skill—as well as the other skills I've built—including the full content, installation instructions, and usage guide, was shared in last week's newsletter as a perk for Design with AI members: https://t.co/SV0tJWz13O

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Built a Claude skill to help me turn notes, outlines, or articles into a modern presentation deck.

And I can use keyboard shortcuts to easily cycle through fonts, colors, and slide transitions, as well as enter thumbnail preview mode in the browser.

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@bearliu 哦哦。我上个月试了下，觉得会有潜力，结果刚测试意识到MCP得是pro plan就没继续试。

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Just being born into this world is such a precious thing.

So why keep getting dragged back and forth over little things?

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Business Lesson #11:

A man makes about 280 million sperm each time, and a woman releases around 100,000 eggs over her whole life.

For one exact sperm to meet one exact egg, the chance is about 1 in 28,000,000,000,000,000.