September 5, 2025
Today I started making my own personal website. It’s an old thing, but you always need a place to put your own things and make it easy to view. I built it with trae.
Rough classification: Life insights, exploration of AI, travel themes, psychological construction, self-driving in China, experience and suggestions for foreigners traveling in China, experience and suggestions for foreigners living in China
The topics are quite complex and don’t necessarily have to be unified. You can write whatever you like. It’s more natural for something that you run by yourself to become a grocery store.
Then use AI to translate it into English and into multiple languages (even more than 100 languages). It is interesting to see the effect of a personal website displayed in more than 100 languages. The AI translation is much more readable than the previous generation of translation software. This is the key point and the reason why it is feasible. It is a true multi-language version of the personal website, not a translation.
Although the personal website is ancient, there is currently no alternative to its role.
It's significant that everyone should have their own personal website, completely their own territory.
To summarize its meaning:
If you need to start a personal independent business, no matter how big or small, you need a completely own territory that can sustainably accumulate popularity. When doing a personal business, popularity is important. A sustainable accumulation of private land is the foundation. Once you have popularity, you can then guide the popularity into your own business. The process is natural and sustainable. This is very important. Unsustainability means that the previous work will be in vain. It is not to earn temporary income, which is meaningless. The sustainability of the income is the important thing.
For those who don’t know what they want to do, first accumulate popularity and do everything that can accumulate popularity. Of course, if you have a clear goal of building a personal career, otherwise you can create any content you want. As for whether you can accumulate popularity, you can consider it second, because what kind of content can accumulate popularity? For most ordinary people like you and me, who have ordinary vision and vision, it is a matter of God. Therefore, start creating first. Facts have proved that many people who are very powerful in their respective fields only discovered that they can become very powerful after doing it. It can be said that they had no prior judgment and foresight before, so they were still ordinary people, which can be regarded as disenchantment.
Comparing the major social media platforms, they also need to be operated together. The two are not mutually exclusive, but the personal website is more important because it is sustainable and will not be interrupted by external factors. For those who operate their own brands, they need to operate the two together and attract traffic to the personal website through social platforms. This operation is a bit difficult, but every progress is not in vain and can be regarded as permanent. Once your personal website replaces your social platform account and becomes the number one traffic gathering place, then the ultimate goal is achieved. I believe that only the traffic of your own personal website is your real traffic. The traffic provided by the platform is lent to you, and the platform can easily take it away.
Let’s talk about the positive significance of a personal website for non-secular success. As a living entity, the traces of existence convey the content of one’s own ideology, which is also part of the meaning of life. How much influence can be exerted? It is other people’s business to judge right and wrong, and it is your business to pass it on. Of course, this is when you have exerted influence. Perhaps, by creating content and transmitting ideas, a two-way healing situation will occur in which one heals oneself and heals others. This will be a surprise.
We come in a hurry and leave in a hurry. Only ideology can be passed on. We have come, left something behind, and left. We should do our best to make the things left behind can be effective for a longer time. Although they will eventually be annihilated, no matter who you are or how outstanding you are, it is only a matter of time. Time is an invincible existence.
Life is meaningful in the short term, but life is meaningless in the long term. Let me ask, if the time is extended long enough, what things in the world will be meaningful?
By shortening the time, the significance of many things becomes apparent. The shorter the time line is, the greater the significance becomes.
Paying attention to the present moment is the meaning of life.