Notes on career

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 […]

Do difficult task with sugar and junk food

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,

Lean team and big team

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

Better date code for filing

Before: “2024-10-04 Project ABC v2” After: “241004 ProjectABCv2” The old way worked in year 1 and 2, but as the folder hierarchy piles, two problem surfaced. The objective is to achieve both the need for file sorting and to identify the context.

Product and route-to-market

If we want to become a physically fit person, then the better chance of success is to join a community. The search for community could be a series of trial and error. Begin with signing up for a nearby gym membership, but give up in a few months. Later find a much enjoyable experience in

Fountain pen lesson 2: laziness

Spin caps are great for night journals, the seconds it takes to spin the cap off provides a time to recap the day. It enhances the ceremonial process. Snap caps are great for work. The reality is, the time to spin the cap off and adjust the grip is enough to cost an idea or

Little story on the tangled responsibility and politics

As an engineering student walking in campus, you’re given a handout by a middle age man on the sidewalk. The handout read “Challenge on French Translation”. Out of boredom after the final exam, you pull out Google Translate and ChatGPT to kill the time. A week later, dean of school called. From this point on,

Fountain pen lesson 1: insecurity

The feeling of running out of ink in a middle of a meeting and trying to touch the paper lightly to squeeze its last ink drop is disturbing. That made Lamy Safari a fountain pen worth constant revisiting. It’s a bless not having to unscrew the pen and flip it upside down to check the

Smart watch problems

They gamified my life and satisfied my OCD of tracking every aspect of my life, although the benefit and medical reliability is questionable. The fact it shines every time I turn my wrist is extremely annoying during light out. That half second delay between my wrist position and screen display. Maybe my nitpicking is the

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) 2024

For certain there’s debate on the reliability of MBTI, for which I cannot argue. However, I believe the overall trend could be an interesting indicator. My rest from 2016 was ENFx; in 2024 it’s ENFJ. The way I react to events and how I perceive myself probably stayed.

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