• Resistance as a proxy

    I am guilty for narcissistically attaching the work I do with who I am. When things go well, my ego drives the motivation. When things doesn’t, I procrastinate and tries to hide it. I am not consistent. The War of Art redefined being professional and Resistance became the proxy. Resistance is always in the middle…


  • Involve before impress

    Less impressed, more involved. – Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey, location 1,446 Here’s a mistake I made 2 weeks into my new job: too eager to apply previous skills and experiences. I wanted to impress, to replicate my turf on this new land. It didn’t work. This is selling solution without understanding the customer pain point.…


  • Framing the situation

    “Dad got scammed for NT$18,000,000.” That’s the reactive response to frame the situation, but it made scammer the bad guy. Doing so, we loose the opportunity to iterate for the next occurrence. Same goes, “Dad got greedy.” says himself. Acknowledge that it might appear again and scammers are professionals, we can frame it to rewires…


  • The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

    Start date: October 18, 2025 End date: October 29, 2025 22 There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. 46 Fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same…


  • 能不能,轉身就遠行 by Cher

    Start date: November 2, 2025 End date: November 5, 2025 30 開始明白夢想是什麼,就是找一種快樂又簡單的方式去生活…走在自己喜歡的路上 57 獨自旅行第一件事情,就是要學會跟自己做朋友 72 不要以為別人依賴著你,就非心不甘情不願付出不可,不要以為自己多厲害,非要改變別人的選擇不可,我們都是其他人路上的過客 76 我是一個人,卻也從未真正一個人,學著在陌生人群中歡笑,卻也明白那種笑容有種久違的陌生 94 流浪根本不需要學習,在路上自己就會為夢想找到出路 128 家也只是一個港口,不過是讓你可以停泊比較久的港口 130 在不同的港口間,找一個屬於自己的家 184 只要背起背包去認識陌生旅人,一樣可以從不同的旅人身上去了解世界 201 遇到不合適的旅伴就當是修行,好相處的旅伴就當作是天上掉下來的禮物


  • Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

    Start date: July 4, 2025 End date: July 13, 2025 Yellow highlight | Location: 320 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. Yellow highlight | Location: 1,091 Life’s hard. Shit happens to us. We make shit happen. To me, it…


  • 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. 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…


  • 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…


  • Fun money (update)

    I decided to change the way to allocate fun money, from once a year to once a month. Problem of fun money with “leftover” from annual savings: 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…


  • Fill in your identity here

    Yellow highlight from page 219, Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins. 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. Okay. Time to get back to work.