Founder Notes

All posts in Founder Notes. Korean originals are linked until English translations are approved.

Startup thinking, learning loops, growth, and personal strategy.

• Founder Notes 기술보다 쓰임새를 먼저 찾자 (Founder Note)

  기술보다 쓰임새와 문제를 먼저 찾아야 실제 가치와 딥테크로 이어진다는 기록.

• Founder Notes Zorba Is a Free Man

  While reading 《Zorba the Greek》, I reflect on the meaning of freedom. I felt that simply living as one wishes is not enough; it also requires the courage to bear the consequences of one’s choices and not run away from oneself. Rather than searching for the right answer, I think about a life in which I make what I have chosen into the right answer.

• Founder Notes When I Was in Elementary School, I Wanted to Become Tony Stark

  I look back on the things I wanted to build as a child and my longing to program. I conclude that what kept me from starting was less a lack of ability than not knowing how to search, ask questions, and learn. After imagining a different life, I arrive at the conclusion that I can make the choices I couldn't make back then now.

• Founder Notes How I Set Up My First Content Calendar

  My first content calendar and publishing guidelines for running a blog consistently.

• Founder Notes A Realistic Way to Look at Blog Advertising Revenue

  Realistic criteria to know first when expecting advertising revenue from a new blog.

• Founder Notes A Newsletter Is the Smallest System for Creating Fans

  Why newsletters, unlike search traffic, create fans of a blog.

• Founder Notes How to Do SEO Without Losing Your Voice

  Criteria for preparing for search visibility without letting your writing become a mechanical summary.

• Founder Notes The Structure That Makes People Come Back to a Blog

  I’ve organized a structure for creating readers who come back, rather than a blog focused only on views.

• Founder Notes What I Will Document Publicly Over the Next 100 Days

  I organized the topics and operating approach for the posts I will publish on my blog over 100 days.

• Founder Notes Why Am I Starting to Document Publicly?

  The first record in building an audience that follows my journey—not a blog focused solely on attracting search traffic.

• Founder Notes 2024 Memoir

  With less than 2 hours left until 2024 ends, I want to do this year's review that I've been putting off and putting off.

• Founder Notes The Importance of Terms

  Terms are important. The meaning I attach to a term and the meaning someone else attaches to it can be vastly different. To resolve this, it is necessary to have an understanding of agreed-upon terms when communicating with people in a new field. However, rather than taking an approach like memorizing an English dictionary in order to learn a new field

• Founder Notes How to Benchmark 2023 Korean CSAT with LLMs

  🔧 How to Benchmark 2023 Korean CSAT with LLMs We’ve developed experimental code for benchmarking the 2023 Korean CSAT Language section. Use this to estimate the performance of your desired models be...

• Founder Notes o1-preview Achieves 97 Points on the 2025 Korean CSAT Language Section!

  csat eng.ver

• Founder Notes Let’s Spend More Time on What the Problem Is

  The most important process for finding a solution

• Founder Notes How Do You Learn a New Concept? (How to Learn Top-Down)

  How do you do top-down learning?

• Founder Notes Selecting the Right OS

  Ubuntu is the GOAT for machine learning:

• Founder Notes Design Process (feat. Retrospective on the KPMG Ideathon)

  Agile~

• Founder Notes Selecting Languages

  I ended up writing a portfolio while trying to submit an assignment

• Founder Notes How should I study to become a developer?

  I don't know that sort of thing—I really don't know~

• Founder Notes Why Is It Wrong?

  Why Did It Fail?

• Founder Notes Could Algorithms Also Be Considered Studying Mathematics?

  A rant