#48 What is Common Between Weight-lifting, Coding and Megxit?

Last week, I heard the news that Meghan and Harry announced that they will "... step back as 'senior' members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent ..." Without knowing much about the English Royal Family, this felt like a big deal. Here is what NYTimes say about this. In recent few...

#47 What Life Story You Have to Tell Today?

Yesterday, Jason and I watched a MasterClass by David Sedaris about story telling and humor. David "It is such a privilege to be a writer. To an average person, if something bad happened, he can do nothing about it… other than feeling bad… to a writer, you can write about it. And that's great." "Many...

#46 What is a Failure that You Are Proud of?

At the end of 2018, I had a new years resolution for 2019: post 52 blogs. 2019 has passed. I posted 42. The turning of the calendar means that a new year has come. It also marked my official failure of this new year's resolution. Today, Jason looked at the 45 blogs I posted (3...

#43 Grit, Wealth or Intelligence, what would you choose?

Yesterday Jason and I were listening to Freakonomics podcast: How Many Prince Charleses Can There Be in One Room? At the beginning of the podcast is an intriguing multiple choice question: If you can choose to have one of the three super power, which would you choose? A. Top 1% grit in the worldB. Top...

#42 New Year’s Resolution

Last week, Jason and I went to a friend's place. Our friend X organizes weekly "family" dinner, a Thursday night dinner where all are welcomed, usually friends of friends. The topic of New Year's Resolution was brought up. This is my favorite topic. My resolution for 2019 Change to a more technical role at workMake...

#41 An alternative mindset to deal with personal issues

On June 29th , 2017, Satya sent out an email with subject line “Thank You & Our FY18 Opportunity”. It ended with this line “Our mission and culture gives each of us the opportunity to realize our personal passion and use Microsoft as a platform to pursue it. I am reminded of the closing line...

#40 Three Stories from Inside Bill’s Brain

Last month, Jason and I watched the documentary on Netflix Inside Bill's Brian: Decoding Bill Gates. This documentary consists of three episodes about his endeavor in the most pressing issues in the world, health and environment, his early life in Microsoft, and back stories about the influence his parents have on him. I did not...

#38 What’s between You and You-Wanna-Be

This morning, when Jason took the first bite into his peanut butter sandwich, he said, "I often say that when we have this much money, when we don't have kids in the house, we will do XYZ. But really, most of these XYZs I want to do, we can do them now." That got me...

#31 How to Know What You Stand For: As a Writer, a Worker, or a Human Being who Wants to Leave a Legacy

I have a full-time job and I love my job. On the side, I am also a blogger. I started posting since 2007. "What do you write about?" is the single most common questions I got every time I say I blog. Unfortunately this simple question doesn't come with simple answer. Before we get into...

#28 The Bright Side: and The Dark Side of Having a Plan

Last Friday, I ran into a coworker Ann at the cafe. After we are done with talking about work, I asked her, "So... What's your plan..." Usually people ask about plan for the weekend. But somehow that Friday, I was feeling adventurous. "... for your life?" Ann laughed, and said that she can barely plan...