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Visual power in the AI era: three basic skills to make images visible at a glance
What is truly scarce in the era of AI drawing is not tools, but visual judgment. The three basic skills - removing clutter, retaining space, and establishing a unique focus - determine whether your image can be seen and remembered, and also determine whether your Prompt can allow AI to produce commercially usable material.
The era of "empathy marketing" is coming: when brands become consumers' AI personal consultants
An LLM knowledge base post by Andrej Karpathy foreshadows a new marketing situation in 2026: consumers have their own AI coaches, and the traditional loudspeaker becomes ineffective. For brands to be invited into these private estates, they no longer rely on precise placement, but on frequency matching of "vibe" - this battle for time sovereignty will rewrite the relationship between brands and users.
Use Vibe Coding to build a personal website from scratch: writers can also launch their own digital facade on weekends
When I was working on this website, I realized that what had stuck me for so many years was not technology, but mentality. Vibe Coding in the AI era has changed this thing - you don't need to learn grammar, you just need to learn to explain the picture in your mind clearly. This article shares my own experience along the way, as a reference for fellow writers who also cannot write programs but want a website that truly belongs to them.
Read "Hao Hui Reading" from the perspective of the book club host: Turn the books you have read into a part of your life
I have known Hao Hsu-lieh for several years. He is gentle, elegant and bookish. After reading his book "Hao Hui Reading", I sincerely recommend it from the perspective of a person who has organized reading clubs for many years - "Four-One Reading Method" (a story about a book, a sentence about a book, a story about me, a sentence about me) solves the most difficult thing about reading: how to make knowledge really stay and become your point of view, your judgment, and your wisdom in life.
Re-read "Sun Yun-suan Biography": The man who used the spirit of an engineer to lift Taiwan up
When the first edition of "Sun Yun-suan Biography" was released in 1989, I immediately bought a copy and read it at home. Re-reading it more than thirty years later, I am still moved by Mr. Sun’s engineering spirit. In this era where the AI wave is sweeping everything, we actually need this kind of pragmatism, focus, and the spirit of solving problems for the country more than ever.
Accurate data narrative: Make reports sell for money, the most scarce business translation power in the AI era
Originally published in Economic Daily. Today, as AI and automation tools become more and more powerful, people who can write SQL and pull data are no longer rare. What is scarce are people who can tell business stories with data. This article breaks down the three core capabilities and three implementation actions of accurate data storytelling (Data Storytelling), so that reports no longer lie on the dashboard sleeping, but become business logic that persuades senior executives and customers...
163,000 subscriptions in two years: Breaking down Charlie’s mental model for content entrepreneurship in “The Entrepreneurial Compound”
Chen Xiuping's "Master Business School" interview with Charlie Entrepreneurship Compound: From scratch to 163,000 subscriptions in two years, a single episode brought a million-dollar turnover conversion. This article extracts six layers of business mentality and a 90-day action blueprint from track thinking, unfamiliar development, interview essence, content matrix, interview skills to energy management.
Don’t just collect AI tools anymore: Four-step design workflow to take advantage of the second wave of AI dividends
It’s useless to have a large collection of AI tools—the dopamine provided by downloading actions cannot deceive the real workload. This article dismantles the three psychological mechanisms of collection addiction, what three workers who really use AI to achieve results do, and gives you a four-step workflow design method that can be started with just an A4 piece of paper to catch the second wave of AI dividends in 2026.
Five things that AI cannot do: LinkedIn CEO personally taught the 5C framework and became irreplaceable in the AI era
What are five things that AI can’t replace? LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky proposed the 5C framework in his new book "Open to Work" - curiosity, courage, creativity, empathy, and communication. These five human abilities determine your position in the AI era.
Four-step methodology for AI copywriting: from “correct but cold” to “making people want to click”
Is the copy written by ChatGPT always "correct but doesn't feel right"? The problem is not that the prompt is too short, but that you haven’t broken down the three-layer structure of the copy. I wrote down the methodology accumulated over five years of corporate internal training into a complete four-step process.
Make good use of AI Agent digital clones to upgrade from mid- to senior-level executives to Agent Commander-in-Chief
The era of ChatGPT has passed, and has been replaced by AI Agents that can plan autonomously, execute cross-system execution, and collaborate with multiple people. How can middle- and senior-level managers restructure their workflow and let digital clones fight for you?
Stop blindly pursuing traffic: truly great content relies on the funnel journey to retain people.
Reach, interaction, trust, conversion, retention - the content that can truly support a long-term career is never a single article that becomes popular, but a journey that slowly brings strangers in.
DESIGN.md: The Spec Your Brand Has Been Missing
Turn your implicit design decisions into an explicit spec that your future self, your collaborators, and your AI assistants can all guard. I just wrote one for vista.tw — here is why it matters, what it contains, and how to write your own.
Creator Marketing 3.0: From One-Off Exposure to a Brand Growth Engine
In 2026, creator marketing is shifting from endorsement deals to a complete commercial system — discover, co-create, convert. See how Vista unpacks the way brands can turn trust into action.
After reading "Di Bono's Horizontal Thinking Dialogue Method", I re-understood what it means to be able to chat.
The problem is not that the words are not good enough, but that the way of thinking needs to be upgraded. After reading Di Bono's "Sidewise Thinking Conversation Method", I learned three things that changed my behavior: additive consent, the art of diversion, and losing an argument but actually winning it. In the AI era, "interesting conversations" have become the most scarce ability.