Thoughts

  • Apps and attention

    I started reading Raptitude from last year and it quickly became one of my favorite blogs. The recent post, How Billionaires Stole My Mind, opened up my mind to how social media companies compete for our attention first thing in the morning and succeed in distracting us. After reading this post, I also deleted Tweetbot…

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  • 2016 in the hindsight

    2016 is by far the best year in my life. It has been fantastic in all the aspects of my life. I base this review on few important things I listed in my /now page.

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  • Ownership and control

    I read a great post today that explains why we should take the ownership and control of our content we put on the internet. Discovered in this tweet, Redesigning Waxy, 2016 edition is a great read. If you don’t have time to read the full post, just read these two paragraphs: Last week, Twitter announced…

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  • Learning to write well

    Since I started reading English language style guides few years ago, I became critical of the text I see everywhere.  There’s heaps of imperfect writing everywhere; billboards, public toilets, public transport, and oh yeah, this blog. These are all great learning opportunities to practice the rules I read in the books.  I’m in the airport…

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  • Share on blog first. Everywhere else next.

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  • I’m excited about the upcoming iPhone. That’s because I am going to buy it.  It’s been six years since I looked forward this much for an iPhone. Luckily, I didn’t have to buy a phone all these years. I bought my first iPhone in the October of 2010. Saying I was excited to lay my…

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  • “Man, this weather sucks. This doesn’t feel like summer at all.” “Looks like you have nothing else to worry about than the weather.” I am never going to complain about the weather. Never.

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  • Results

    Sooner or later, results eventually follow all the efforts. So more than results, I’m worried about feeling smug and getting distracted by the results.

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  • I recently wrote about how  what I do aligns to “Master yourself, help others” philosophy I learned from Derek Sivers.  I loved this philosophy so much that I want to make it my life motto and make sure everything I do fits into either of these buckets. This motto adds on to the four principles…

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  • 2015 in the hindsight

    2015 is my best year ever in almost all areas of my life. I learned a few good ideas, built a great momentum for my goals, and continued my habit streaks. In October I put everything I have been up to in my /now page. This is the one of the best things I did…

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