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Exclusively "A" Players
Steve Jobs supposedly said, "A players hire A players; B players hire C players." Silicon Valley takes this to heart, a guiding light for tight hiring process and keeping a high bar when building out teams. Better to…
Review: The Money Trap
My dad gave me some life advice as a kid: If I wanted to make money in my career, I needed to be close to money. Now, we had immigrated from Hong Kong, back then the premier financial hub in…
How to Value Journaling
I started journaling before it was cool. Okay, it was never cool and will probably never be cool. But, I did start the practice and developed a habit around recording my everyday activities, plus additional reflections on life and work…
Pining for a Simpler Internet
It could have been mere coincidence. As I was settling into an evening of going through saved articles on Matter[1], I noticed that much of modern online discourse frames our present state of technology as the nadir of social…
Review: The Last Lecture
On my bookshelf, there's one shelf that I keep a couple of my favorite books, and on occasion, I rotate one book out for another as I finish a hard copy of a book that really stuck with…
Learn to be Bored
It almost always comes up an hour into a road trip. Or a lazy Sunday afternoon. Or as they close their iPad folios[1]. "I'm bored." My standard response? The title gives it away: "Learn…
