Why do we always focus on the negative? Whenever we go about a new adventure, we tend to ask ourselves “what could go wrong?”. Why do we never ask ourselves “what could go right?”. When we focus on the negative, we are relying on our courage to overcome fear. Whereas when we focus on the …
For majority of my life I wanted to be productive of my time. I wanted to produce with the little time I’m given and make a name for myself. I went to college, got the degree. After the degree, I got the job and bought the house. I kept producing. Bigger house. Bigger job. Bigger …
I’ve recently been reading Charlie Munger’s Poor Charlie’s Almanack. In it, he talks about this idea of admiration-based love. That you can love someone and have deep admiration for them whether they are alive or not. I mostly interpret this as Charlie’s love for reading and thus how he converses with the dead. Throughout many …
You may not know this, but I work in big tech on a software product called a package manager. Imagine a conveyor belt with an endless stream of packages always going by. If you see a package that provides you functionality that will help you do something while you’re writing your software, you can choose …
For if knowledge is power, then god am… I! Was that over the top? I can never tell. You might recognize this quote from an old batman movie where Jim Carrey plays the Joker, but I have been pondering this saying more and more recently. My entire career I have worked with my brain. This …
Over four years ago, I started a long journey to clean up my routine and master one of life’s most mundane offerings — habits. Everyone knows what a habit is. It’s that tendency or practice that we have that is hard to give up. We all have good habits like bathing, brushing our teeth, and …
Where do good products go bad? This has been a question on top of my conscious for many years ever since I made a deliberate career switch to become a product manager. Through much of my career, I’ve had to study good and bad products. I’ve read every great book on product development and design …
When I started running a few years ago, I had a few goals in mind. First, I wanted to be able to run a 5k. Never in my life was I able to do a 5k run without taking regular breaks and being out of breath. Second, I wanted to be able to run a …
Every year that I look at my life, I see such substantial improvements. Turning 30 proved to be one of my biggest years of growth to date. But I keep asking myself, does the growth ever stop? I look at my previous year and see so many hours I wasted. These are hours I’ll never …
One of the great paradoxes in life is that the harder we try to do something, the more difficult it will become. I call this “trying too hard”, whereas there is an entire belief in what is known as the dao/tao(the “way”). The dao is a philosophical concept that is equally simple and complex. Simply …
