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Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
Start date: December 18, 2024 End date: February 24, 2025 Yellow highlight | Page: 42 Look, everybody learns in a different way and we’re gonna figure out how you learn. She deduced that I needed repetition. That I needed to solve the same problems over and over again in a different way to learn, and…
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Parental allowance cashflow
It used to be 5% of income that all goes into a cash envelope. We pull money from it if there’s any large purchases for the parents or flush into red envelop during Lunar New Year. The experiment Luckily, our parents are in good financial shape and that gave us room to plan for the…
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With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge
Yellow highlight | Page: 119 The Japanese’s mouth glowed with huge gold-crowned teeth, and his captor wanted them. He put the point of his kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking his feet and thrashing about, the knife point glanced…
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34/35
On 34 34 was a year of liberation. Millie turned 4 and now enjoys art and craft, I have more time on my own. I changed job after almost 7 year stay, it brought the opportunity to live in the US for 30 days. That was an unimaginable and incredible experience. Milestones Lessons from 34…
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Communicate visual with Nano Banana
Thinking this would be a good idea to paint a concept of VSaaS, I snapped this photo on the way off HSRT ride. With Google’s Nano Banana and couple of product photos, I could turn this into what I have imaged! Whether this is a good visual is subjective, but it saved me a least…
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Keep a swipe file folder
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…
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Divisional organization in solution selling
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…
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Design presentation from the what-could-be
Nancy Duarte’s book, Resonate, maps out the rhythm for an effective presentation with the idea of sparkline. 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.…
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My 5 laptop setups for a product demo
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…
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Three colors in slide making
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…