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Minsuk Kang
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Life's goal: never try to take advantage of other people's strength.
May 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Popularity is a terrible metric to evaluate someone's personality.
May 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I want to feel pure joy. Unmeddled, undisturbed, unpretentious feeling that fulfills without any external help.
May 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Just launched a really simple mailing service. It's called 'I’ll send you a sentence every day'

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I’ll send you a sentence every day
Minsuk’s simple mailing service.
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May 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
You know when something's dipped in bull-shit when it's being talked about at every single table in a coffee shop.
May 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Life is too short for two purposes. The happiest people I've met are the ones who spend their days with a single purpose.
May 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"Distraction-free" is a new buzzword for non-believers.
May 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Elon Musk’s fans say they love his first-principles approach, but they still won’t admit Bluesky’s UX is way better than X’s.
May 16, 2025 at 5:12 AM
The three best (free/cheap) softwares for writing:
- MarkEdit github.com/MarkEdit-app...
- Plain Text Editor sindresorhus.com/plain-text-e...
- Enso enso.sonnet.io

The three best (expensive) softwares for writing:
- iA Writer ia.net/writer
- Bike www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/
- Paper paper.pro
May 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
What’s your definition of success? Let me tell you mine:
May 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Just some thoughts about the upcoming presidential election in South Korea:
May 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
What books will remain as "classics" when AI is capable of generating words with a human voice and unique style? Will people still want to write a book? What happens when humans can't discern the words of AI from those of a human? What if readers acknowledge machine writers are funnier and smarter?
May 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I'll be in Shanghai in a couple weeks. Let me know if there's any recommendations!
May 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Jung-hoo Lee, Yunchan Lim, Heungmin Son. I feel a sense of accomplishment watching these Koreans succeed in the big leagues. I have zero personal connection to them. Still, it’s as if I’m wired to feel proud of their success—despite my discomfort with nationalism and Korean propaganda.
May 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
> One writes out of one thing only–one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.
James Baldwin
May 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
My short story about being a Literature major today

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Saving Literature
“It’s okay to be a Literature major.” Hyunsuk had said this to his students too many times.
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March 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
what a blessing to not care about the politics in korea and the us
March 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This ramen is $4 in Taipei. The same dish would cost $10 in Korea, $15 + tips in the US.
November 19, 2024 at 10:00 AM
nobody's playlist.
nobody
musica laetitiae comes, medicina dolorum classical/ambient playlists and stuff
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February 8, 2024 at 6:11 AM
I want to participate in one social media. No more cross-posting to five differnet ones.
February 8, 2024 at 5:53 AM
The best kind of education is entertainment.
February 8, 2024 at 12:53 AM
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