Personal Growth

Money update: chunks of one time expenses

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 […]

Benefits of an actual radio

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 It’s an outdated, single purpose technology, but it reminds us to live in the moment, even if it’s imperfect or unpleasant.

Exercise when feel not to

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.

Keep a side project

Sometimes things get tough at work or in life, sometimes it creates a domino effect into other aspects. A badly done project at work leads to a bad mood, unintentionally brought it home and it leads to an argument with our partner; then it kept us from sleeping at night and the lack of sleep

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Results for 33 1. Exercise is progressing after the dip Ever since my daughter born in December 2020, the exercise volume axes in half in 2021; then I transit to product marketing in November 2021, the number hit rock bottom in 2022 and 2023 as I tried to balance between raising a toddler, rebuilding a

Right question, easier decision

A choice between NT$35,600 Apple refurbished M3 Macbook Air and NT$31,900 new M2 Macbook Air. Which one to keep and which one to return? The price difference is NT$3700. There are few ways to justify the difference:– 2 display output vs 1– SoC performance– Dynamic caching ChatGPT says a MacBook typically gets 7-8 years of

Ask for help

The airplane stuck on the tree while we’re at the park today. I tried knocking it down with branches. I tried climbing and shaking it. I have told people to shut up, but I did not call for help. My wife did, and we got our plane back. Some problems aren’t solvable with personal ability.

Profiling

We profile the company that we do business with. We might even profile the key contact person’s interest and birthday for gift. Why don’t we do that to our friends and family? Recently while visiting an old friend, I added ‘cooks dinner for the kid’ and ‘enjoys noodle more than rice’ in to his profile

The idea of OK

Recently at work, I found members sitting idle on a task longer than planned. This pattern happens when they’re in a project for more than 2 to 3 weeks. During the first few weeks, information pile up quickly. Over flooded with information on the project, judgement becomes more difficult because the considerations increased. The idea

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