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title: "Preface"
title_zh: "前言"
type: "post"
published_at: "2026-07-30T09:19:54.694Z"
tags: ["数字身份", "个人网站", "赛博遗产", "Digital Identity", "Cyber Legacy"]
canonical: "https://shadowgege.com/#notes"
---

# Preface

> 前言

One day it occurred to me that when people die, their accounts usually stay alive.

There is something absurd about that. So I decided to be proactive: create a virtual identity called Shadow, then build it a house. This website is that house.

It keeps three things: ideas, works, and objects.

First, ideas.

I want to record how I see the world. My views may be wrong, and a few years from now my future self may overturn them. That is fine. Changing your mind is not embarrassing; pretending you never did is the more awkward business.

If these notes keep evolving until my life ends, they will become a kind of cyber legacy. People who care about me can return to them. A stranger on the same wavelength might wander in one night and discover that someone else once had the same thought.

Next, works.

I used to be a product manager. It is a curious profession: you help build many products, yet it is hard to say any of them truly belongs to you.

So I want to keep the products, tools, and other things I make here. They may not change the world—the world is busy and may not be waiting for me to change it. But every finished work proves that I once took a problem seriously.

This is my record of making, and a gesture of respect to my former role as a product manager.

Finally, objects.

This will not become a guide to getting rich overnight, nor will it manufacture the anxiety of “buy now or regret it forever.” I only want to share things I have actually used and genuinely found worthwhile.

A cup, a lamp, a tool: each can make ordinary life a little better. If one recommendation helps someone avoid a bad purchase, that is enough. Sharing does not have to become a business. Sometimes something is simply good, and you want other people to know.

So the site has three sections:

Ideas are how I understand the world.

Works are how I respond to it.

Objects are how I live in it.

In the end, I am simply someone with a strong urge to share, trying to preserve my conversation with the world.

The body will eventually go offline.

I hope Shadow stays online.

— Shadow



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## 中文

有一天我想到，人死以后，账号通常还活着。

这件事多少有点荒诞。于是我决定主动一点：给自己建立一个虚拟身份，叫 Shadow，再给它盖一间房子，也就是这个网站。

这里主要放三样东西：认知、作品和好物。

先说认知。

我想记录自己对世界的看法。它们未必正确，而且很可能过几年就会被未来的我推翻。但没有关系，一个人改变想法并不可耻，假装自己从未改变过才比较麻烦。

如果这些文字能够一直更新到我生命结束，它们就会成为一份赛博遗产。以后，在意我的人可以回来看看；与我素不相识、却恰好同频的人，也可能在某个深夜误入这里，发现世界上曾经有人和他想过同一件事。

再说作品。

我曾经是一名产品经理。这个职业的特点是参与过许多产品，最后却很难说哪一个真正属于自己。

所以，我想把以后做的产品、工具和创作留在这里。它们不一定能改变世界——世界很忙，也未必需要我来改变。但只要一件作品被认真完成，它就证明我曾经认真对待过一个问题。

这算是我对创作的交代，也是对“产品经理”这个旧身份的尊重。

最后是好物。

这里不会教人一夜暴富，也不打算制造“不买就亏”的紧张气氛。我只是想分享一些自己真正用过、并且觉得不错的东西。

一个杯子、一盏灯、一件工具，都可能让普通生活稍微舒服一点。如果我的分享能帮别人少踩一个坑，那就够了。分享不一定非要成为生意，也可以只是因为觉得好，所以希望别人也知道。

于是，这个网站有了三个板块：

认知，是我如何理解世界。

作品，是我如何回应世界。

好物，是我如何生活在世界里。

说到底，我只是一个分享欲比较强的人，想把自己与世界的对话保存下来。

肉身终有一天会停服。

希望 Shadow 还能在线。

—— Shadow