Category: 6. 🎮🧠🖥🏀
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🗞 The Newsletter Binge 🍽
I have been on a binge lately. I started subscribing to Tim Ferriss’ 5 bullet Friday about a year ago. I didn’t subscribe to any another newsletter, until I came across David Perell’s interview with Austin Rief and Alex Lieberman, the founders of Morning Brew. The podcast episode had all the feel good factors: the…
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Facebook Eats Dog Food
As the legend goes, every year the president of Kal Kan Pet Food would eat a can of the company’s dog food at the share-holders’ meeting. “Dogfooding” means using you own products/services, so you get to understand what it is like to be your customers. Facebook recently said it would permanently embrace remote work. “We’re…
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FaceTime Has a Branding Problem
It’s not serious enough for work. Apple’s FaceTime is actually fantastic for one-on-one virtual meetings- it is very easy to use, secured, and reliable. Yet every time when I suggested FaceTime, the other side would always say, “Oh I have never used it for REAL meetings.” It really didn’t matter if we actually needed the…
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Read smarter with Readwise and Drafts
Two apps that make taking and reviewing reading notes simple and enjoyable. I used to highlight in the Kindle, and use a notes app to write things down from books, audiobooks, podcasts, etc. Now, I use Readwise.io and Drafts. Readwise makes reviewing your reading notes easy and delightful. It connects to your Kindle and captures…
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“Quarantined” Coaching
The Verdict of Online Meetings Because of the coronavirus, I have been conducting coaching sessions via voice and video calls. I love them. Clients find them more flexible and accommodating. Yet, I actually prefer voice over video because video calls simply have more ways to go wrong. I am old school 🤦🏻♂️. 1) With video, in…
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Year 2019 in Podcasts
That messed up the trajectory of my life The Peter Attia Drive Podcast: “Sam Harris, Ph.D.: The transformative power of mindfulness” https://peterattiamd.com/samharris/ https://peterattiamd.com/samharris/ This particular podcast opened my eyes to Buddhism and meditation. It was one of those mysterious moments that things somehow just clicked. Since then, I was able to stick to a regular meditation routine,…
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The Wonderful Naivety of Apple Product Launches
Perfect autumn morning @ Apple ifcmall, Hong Kong Today is the launch of the iPhone 11. Product launches at the Apple stores were the favorite moments of my stint at Apple. They were also the most significant moments of growth. In a way, I believe everyone could relate to a product launch event at an Apple…
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Tim Cook Butchered Cantonese
Nike Epic Phantom React FK 4 random tidbits from the iPhone 11 Apple Event. From Schmoes to Pros My camera has an iPhone on it The Sequel: Siri & AR Strike Back Tim Cook butchered Cantonese, and it’s our fault 1. From Schmoes to Pros Apple pulled a Jedi-mindtrick on all of us with the new naming…
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Why I Stopped Using Blinkist To Read
Source: https://agileleanlife.com/blinkist-review/ Thanks to Nassim Taleb. The promise of Blinkist is enticing: Finish a book in 15 minutes -> Finish many many books -> Be like Bill/Nytimes/Naval/Yuval/#TheEnlightened 🧘🏻♂️ Furthermore, supposedly, it would help you find what you want to dive deeper into so one would buy books to read instead of just for adding the…