Nov 21st to 27th, 2020. Winter Fair, where 400+ people showed up. I was in charge of pasta. Made two sauces, and they tasted good. I got to use the full size kitchen at the school. Everything was so much hotter! I felt useful. The school is coming alone, albeit all the challenges, albeit the…
Category: 4. Live Less Bad
What’s Keeping Me Up At Night 😨
The 2020 election did not resolve this crisis of legitimacy. It found two Americas, very evenly divided, and at war with one another. Andrew Sullivan Our viewpoints. My wife’s and mine. The world is polarised. But I am not sure if she and I would agree on this. We are more susceptible to influence than…
Why These Cliches Make Life Worse And Then Great
The purpose of life is finally obvious. It is not fun. It’s dull. It’s not romantic at all. Not something we would see in a super hero movie. The purpose of life is to go through it, raise some human beings, do some good, do less bad, and see what happens. But we lose sight…
Confidence
“When I realized that I was smarter than my parents, I felt tremendous shame for having thought that.” Steve Jobs Some say confidence comes from evidence of us capable of doing things- hard things, good things, mundane things. Some say confidence is to be attached. Some say confidence is to have all the holes inside…
Why Meditate?
I started meditation in 2012 when the Headspace app was launched. Since then I have stopped, restarted, struggled, changed many apps, attended a 10 day silent retreat. Now, I meditate daily, and I am confident to say that I will be practicing meditation for the rest of my life. So why do I meditate? I…
What Were Steve Jobs and Hitler Doing When They Were 44?
Hitler became the chancellor of Germany in 1933 when he was 44. Jobs officially returned as the CEO of Apple at the age of 44. I am 44. The moment we existed high school, age started to become irrelevant. It was as if, at the moment of graduation, the line of age just elongated and…
Why Meditate? 為何打坐？
To meditateis to unlearn our relationship with time, self, and then reality. 打坐是重新認識與時間、自己、和現實的關係。
Why I left Apple. Why I am trying to leave Work.
I wanted to stop rationalising. I couldn’t square the dilemma. I was sick of the wrestling. The value of I was doing, from selling shoes to selling phones, needed more rationalisation than I could stomach. The “rationalized” values were at least “one order” away from what I was actually doing daily: Selling iPhones:{1st Order Impact}…
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Today is August 31st, 2020. In the last 2 months, every day between 11am-3pm, my brain would give up. It would become stuck. I would fall asleep constantly – at a bench in a park, on a bus, anywhere. Summoning motivation was taxing. Staying focused was hard. It is detrimental to my ability to function….
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Jing and I, walking in the warm late afternoon sun, with chai sleeping in his stroller, near Tai Koo Shing. I glanced at her, and the sun washed out the colors and contours of everything. At that moment, I remembered to be grateful. The 4PM sunwashes out contrasts on her facetill the end of time