About

My name is Ping.

Have you ever had a thought that felt too random to be useful—or too strange to say out loud? Maybe it was a fleeting connection between a personal feeling and an economic trend, a philosophical idea, or something shifting quietly in society. Those thoughts often pass by unnoticed, but they’re rarely meaningless. The Second Best Time is a space for exploring those quietly curious ideas.

In my podcast and newsletters, I unpack the hidden logic behind a single thought—connecting feelings, work, culture, and the world around us. The goal is simple: to make the strange feel seen, and the outsider mind feel understood.
Because maybe none of us are really outsiders. And if we are — we're outsiders together. Which, in a way, makes us a community.

Let's think differently, together.