Kelly Huang

Author: kelly huang

  • Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

    Start date: July 4, 2025

    End date: July 13, 2025

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    She’s a woman that says “I’m gonna” before she can, “I would” before she could, and “I’ll be there” before she’s invited.

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    Life’s hard. Shit happens to us. We make shit happen. To me, it was inevitable that I was staying the entire year because I’d shaken on it. I’d made a voluntary obligation with myself that there was “no goin back.”

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    less impressed, more involved.

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    We have to prepare to have freedom. We have to do the work to then do the job. We have to prepare for the job so we can be free to do the work. Knowing my man does not mean I know Spanish.

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    We are performing in real time, where the approach is the destination, and there is no goal line because we are never finished.

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    while I was still finding my balance with it, I wasn’t self-assured enough to share it with anyone else, especially my own mother.

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    They are not trying to win arguments of right or wrong. They are trying to understand each other. That’s different.

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    I felt like I was making B’s in all five. By shutting down the production company and the music label, I eliminated two of my five commitments with plans to make A’s in the other three.

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    Those roles and stories I was looking for? The ones that would compete with the life I was livin? They weren’t coming my way, and again, I wasn’t sleeping well with the ones that were. It was time to make a change, to pivot, to make a new commitment.

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    We made Dallas Buyers Club for 4.9 million dollars in twenty-five days. We did not ask permission. We did not flinch. We took the hill. I got down to 135.

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    “Afraid of what?” “…Of losing myself,” I said.

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    I loved performing. I loved creating. I loved getting lost in a character, then found.

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    I haven’t made all A’s in the art of livin, but I give a damn, and I’ll take an experienced C over an ignorant A any day.

  • Attention dilemma of NBD

    This is my second time in a NBD, new business development unit. Both struggled. They’re different companies, but some patterns remain.

    • NBD of billion dollar corporation.
    • Highly anticipated by the corp office.
    • Heavy expansion on engineer headcount.
    • Product oriented, usually to satisfy a couple of potential key accounts.
    • Relies on existing channels of the corporation, ranging from ODM to distribution model.

    The dilemma is about face. The face between corporate expectation and doing the dirty job of knocking door-to-door. From my two experiences, the fragmented and laborious works don’t look well compared to the logos and TAM of key accounts. How could it? It must rise just as the sibling business units.

    Meanwhile, engineer recruitment and corp investment continuous to snowball. Sunk cost fallacy kicks in. I have yet to see it’s final destiny, but it will not die nor will it prosper in 3 to 5 years.

  • My cookie jar

    I have forgotten where I got this idea. But decade before I read about David Goggins cookie jar method, I have been collecting feedbacks. They live in the Accomplishments and Insults folder.

    Feel defeated? Scroll the Accomplishments folder.

    Not feeling to exercise? Scroll the Insults folder.

    It’s a good reminder on what I’m capable of and who I can prove wrong.

    Accomplishments folder
    Insults foler

  • Fun money (update)

    I decided to change the way to allocate fun money, from once a year to once a month.

    Screenshot
    • Original: split the difference after hitting the annual savings goal.
    • New: allocate 5% of each regular income cycle and 50% – 60% of irregular income cycle.

    Problem of fun money with “leftover” from annual savings:

    1. Unable to forecast how much will be received, no clear goal.
    2. Long wait time, easily side tracked by impulsive spending

    With allocating in each income cycle, the purpose is to act as a reminder to refocus whatever the purchase is. There’s a goal to save towards to and cycles to evaluate the expense.

    Reminder for each regular income cycle

  • Fill in your identity here

    Yellow highlight from page 219, Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins.

    • You will be made fun of.
    • You will feel insecure.
    • You may not be the best all the time.
    • You may be the only black, white, Asian, Latino, female, male, gay, lesbian or [fill in your identity here] in a given situation.
    • There will be times when you feel alone.

    Filling in my identity after rejections on documentation management system implementation. Product Marketing: this would disrupt the workflow; IT: Sharepoint is USD$ 2,000 per terabyte, no budget.

    • [only PMM with the least resource but 2 business units to serve]
    • [only one person but doing the work that even four couldn’t done well]
    • [only one person but needs to test product, shootout, position product, building value proposition; a job of 3 teams]
    • [doing DMS that my colleagues doesn’t give a shit and maybe even tries to stop it]
    • [a product marketer who needs to be responsible for DMS design]

    Okay. Time to get back to work.