Posts tagged with Thoughts
Values to Make Decisions
Quick, what are your core values? How about the values of your discipline, your company, your industry? Your…family[1]? If you can actually answer these questions without stopping in your tracks and making the thinking-emoji face 🤔, then you&…
Asian. American?
It’s been really hard to absorb. Think about. Process. And write about, the experience of being an Asian American in the past year. Even before the COVID-related lockdowns began in the United States last March, one of the…
COVID, A Year Later
As I'm writing this, it's been a year to the week that America shut down from the pandemic. The combination of restricting European travel, celebrities announcing their COVID susceptibility, and the dramatic postponement of a major…
The Asymmetry of Creation
It takes me, on average, about an hour to write a minute’s worth of blog prose. That is, as most posts here take only 3–4 minutes to read, they correspondingly take about 3–4 hours to write and…
Year in Review — 2020
Argh, this year. I'm hardly original in bidding good riddance to a frustrating and challenging year, though the weight of ongoing pandemic is, in a macabre way, a continual reminder for me to be grateful for continued health…
The Ceiling and the Floor
I've been mulling over a mental model the past couple of years, expanding on the notion of setting and hitting a singular goal: the idea of optimizing for the ceiling and the floor. It came about from an…
