Wisdom I Pondered This Week

• “There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.” — Coco Chanel
• “Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.” — Alan Watts
• “You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.” — Pema Chödrön
• “Nothing is worth more than this day.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action - Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.” — Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali

Things I Learned This Week

• 雞肋 用來形容一件事物價值很低，但又讓人捨不得完全放棄，常以「食之無味，棄之可惜」概括：就像雞骨頭上只剩一點肉，吃起來沒什麼價值，但丟掉又覺得浪費。這個比喻後來被延伸到各種生活情境，例如一份成長有限卻暫時不敢辭的工作、不常用卻不想刪除的 App，或其他投入與回報不成比例的選擇。本質上，「雞肋」代表一種「低價值 + 難割捨」的狀態：理性上知道效益有限，但情感或 沉沒成本 讓人遲遲不願放手。
• 珊瑚草，又稱「海燕窩」或「麒麟菜」，是一種生長在零污染海域的紅藻（Red Algae），含有豐富的植物性膠原蛋白、海中酵素及鈣、鎂、鐵等礦物質，營養價值豐富，是「可以吃的保養品」。
• 「CoWoS（Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate）」是台積電開發的先進封裝技術，透過在矽中介層（Interposer） 上整合多顆 Chiplets，再與封裝基板連接，使多個晶片（如 GPU）能以極高頻寬互連並作為單一系統運作。這種 Chip → Wafer → Substrate 的三層架構能突破單一大型晶片在成本、良率與功耗上的限制，並支援模組化設計，因此成為 AI 運算晶片的重要封裝方案。
• 「馬里雅納海溝（Mariana Trench）」位於西太平洋、馬里亞納群島東側，是地球上海洋最深的區域，由「太平洋板塊」向下俯衝到「馬里亞納板塊」之下的「板塊隱沒帶」所形成；整條海溝約長 2,550 公里，最深處「挑戰者深淵」（Challenger Deep）深度約 10,900–11,000 公尺。海溝底部環境極端，溫度約 1–4°C、壓力接近 1,000 個大氣壓（相當於一頭大象站在指甲上）且完全黑暗，但仍存在多種深海生物與微生物，它們並非依賴陽光，而是透過「化學合成」獲得能量。馬里雅納海溝的環境被認為與木衛二等外星海洋世界相似，因此對探索外星生命也具有重要啟發。
• An Igloo (冰屋) is a traditional Arctic snow shelter developed by the Inuit (因紐特人，舊稱「Eskimo 愛斯基摩人」), built from blocks of hard-packed snow arranged in a spiraling dome that distributes weight evenly and resists strong winds. Although made of snow, the structure stays relatively warm because snow acts as a natural insulator, trapping heat from body warmth or small lamps while blocking freezing winds outside. Igloos are also designed with a low tunnel entrance, allowing cold air to sink below the raised living platform so the interior remains warmer.