Gary Li — Off-duty, still leveling.
The save screen between the work quests. Where I trade roadmaps for rulebooks, dashboards for rallies, and conference rooms for the steam off a fresh pour. Same brain, different inventory.
My BTC Portfolio
When I say I'm invested in BTC, I don't mean Bitcoin. I mean my personal trio: Board games, Tennis, Coffee. They keep me curious, balanced, and constantly leveling up outside of work.
The Strategist's Stack
Asymmetric war games, co-op engine builders, anything with hidden information. Where I practice trade-offs, sunk-cost discipline, and reading the table.
The Grind Portfolio
Almost every day after work. Tracking swing counts and rally length the way I track ecomm metrics: marginal gains, logged.
The Daily Compound
One cup per morning. Dialing in grind, dose, and yield with a kitchen scale and zero shame. Patience exercise disguised as a beverage.
Off-the-clock Regions
Each holding has its own zone, loadout, and skill tree. Dive deeper.
Lost Ruins of Arnak : Twisted Paths
Board Games
Systems & Strategy
Collected 20+ strategy titles that reward long-term thinking and adaptability. In college, I designed and prototyped my own digital board game with a full rulebook, tokens, and cards.
EQUIPPED LOADOUT
- MAINLost Ruins of Arnak: deck-building, resource management
- SUBCatan: Strategy, trading
- LIGHTSplendor Duel: for sneaking in newcomers
COURT · AFTER WORK
Tennis
Iterative Improvement
Every match is a dataset. I track my tennis sessions the same way I track e-commerce metrics — analyzing patterns, looking for marginal gains, because improvement is a game of consistency.
EQUIPPED LOADOUT
- WPNWilson Clash 100 v2
- FOCUSBackhand
- RIVALMy own forehand consistency
BREW · DAILY 6:45 AM
Coffee
Precision & Ritual
From dialing in the perfect brew to practicing latte art, coffee is my daily blend of standardization and experimentation. Each cup is a tiny experiment in patience and precision.
EQUIPPED LOADOUT
- DEVICEBreville Barista Express
- BEANOlympia Morning Sun
- SKILLWorking on the Matcha creamtop
Recent Saves
Little wins, little losses, the moments worth a screenshot. Pinned from the journal.
WINArnak clicked today.
Finally sequenced the deck right: held back on research, flooded temples late. Resource management over raw points. It worked.
PRFirst clean kick serve.
Three months of trying. The ball bounced where I aimed for the first time. Felt like shipping a feature.
WILDBroke the SOP today.
Shot pulled straight over cold milk. No steam, no ritual. Just contrast. Weird. Worked. Reminder that the standard process isn't always the ceiling.
NEWNew bean dialed in.
18g in, 36g out, 28s. Deep, syrupy, chocolate. None of the fruit I expected from the bag. Better.
Skills That Carry Over
The hobbies aren't separate from the work; they're where the work gets sharpened. Here's what carries over.
Every game teaches me that the obvious move is rarely the best one. Sit with the board for a turn longer than feels comfortable.
Nobody fixes their backhand in one session. You log it, you iterate, you trust the rep count. Same with shipping product.
A good cup is a tight SOP: grind, dose, yield, time. Documentation isn't paperwork, it's the recipe that makes tomorrow's pour repeatable.
If we ever play a board game, share a court, or have a coffee: that's where you'll really meet me.