Creativity is hard to come by and the market pace nowadays is incredible fast with AI. How can we shorten the time of content creation? Austin Kleon’s book Steal Like An Artist introduced me the idea of a swipe folder. After 3 years of collection, here’s what my Google Drive looks like. Since I use […]
This part of the interview between Acquired Podcast and TSMC founder, Morris Chang, about the correlation between organization structure and customer gave me an explanation to my current role in product marketing facing a divisional structure. Today’s surveillance is about solution selling as network camera and NVRs becoming a commodity. The increasing number of smaller
Nancy Duarte’s book, Resonate, maps out the rhythm for an effective presentation. It diverges from the conventional understanding of rising action, climax, and falling action. It’s more true in most business presentation as the products or solutions are not that different and audience lacks patience to build up the climax. Some tactics to build the
Product demo is engaging, fun, and risky all at the same time. One unexpected fail ignites the chill that sweats our back. 1. Cables, cables, cables Sudden voice drop, mic caught on nearby conversation, unexpected low battery notice; the problem is wireless connections are not always reliable. We can’t guarantee cabled network connection, but keeping
I’m not a designer, and by no means am I trying to become one. The objective of color is to highlight the information, and highlight is building contrast. I use 3 colors in my slide: grey, black, and one primary color. More colors requires more skills to maneuver, so I rarely do so unless I’m
November is a month with multiple large one time bills; we’ve almost doubled the monthly expense from NT$82,558 of October to 165,212 of November. There are 3 expenses that contributed to the inflated number. It accumulates 55% of the November expense; without those, the November expense is 76,138. The baseline expense is actually lower than
Sugar and junk food rewards the brain, releases dopamine to make us feel happy. Eat it while we are working on a difficult task makes the task feel less stressful by building a reward loop. To take advantage of dopamine release,
Radio has become the staple for family meal time. It’s an outdated, single purpose technology, but it reminds us to live in the moment, even if it’s imperfect or unpleasant.
Unless it’s health related, these sometimes turn into a great exercise. A long day of work; exercise becomes a switch of thoughts. An argument with family; exercise blows the steam off. Emotion can be flipped with motion.
Teams come in 2 sizes, lean versus volume. Former focuses on mission execution and the later focuses on strategic formation. Recently, I traded 1 headcount in exchange of removing video production from the responsibility. The team becomes leaner and easier to focus on go-to-market planning, asset creation, and channel enablement. It made sense since video
