A graduate of a technical school, Hsieh freely admits he is no scholar. In 2006 he faced growing concerns about the lackluster sales of his family farm's annual output of 5,000 kilograms of rice, not to mention that his father had already entered his golden years. A peer suggested that a personal blog might be just the marketing tool needed to turn things around.
高職畢業，自稱沒什麼學問的謝銘鍵，2006 年才開始架設個人部落格，最主要原因是父親年事已高，但家中年產 5 千公斤的稻米卻乏人問津，經由同儕引薦，決定透過個人部落格來賣米。