The more I talk with AI, the more it felt human. Except it isn’t. I’m limiting artificial intelligence with human intelligence. I can 2x the slide output, 5x if I worked hard, and 10x if I streamlined the workflow. But 100x is not reasonable. This isn’t true for AI. Next time prompting, try to add…

This is a technique I frequently use to iterate faster to pattern learning: steal. Take a look at these two examples. Pattern recognition The first image is from a 2023 ASUS product announcement, I screenshot and kept it in the swipe file. Months later, it became a source to mimic in a product launch. Pattern…

“Priorities” is a new word. Before the 1940s, it was priority. It’s about one thing. The first thing on the list. When multiple first-things happen, things fight for our attention. The inability to decide the first action creates anxiety. Anxiety is the unfocused fear. Priority is a number. It is sorting the first action to…

A system without stress test is an ideation. Importance of emergency fund is unreliable until tuition bill came. Product launch process is unreliable until sequential production delays. Ship it. Ship it to intentionally create stress. Then iterate to remove one stress at a time.

Empty prompt space is resistance. It is unknown. It is potential mistake. It is over thinking. It is doubt. Resistance defogs with our momentum. When I wrote one sentence. When I act for 2 minutes. One tactic is to admit the don’t know. Go to Claude, “I’m working on _, show me an empty prompt…

I ran a PR: 5’00” in the last K of the 11K race. Just to be reminded the weakness in left hip is breaking the left knee. Overperformance is a cost for iteration. Achieving a better KPI with 80-hour week, lifting bigger weight with belt, saving more by zero entertainment. We add brute force to…

Windows Photo AI Erase. Apple Photo Clean up. Gemini image with watermark. Three tools I often use – separately, on parallel. The combination is so simple, so obvious, but easily neglected. We chase new techniques and tactics. But new creates friction. The alternative – find what we already possess, combine, utilize, then create a unique…

When it comes to limiting my phone use, I tried them all. But I always find ways to revoke it. The frustration came from a 2 hour Saturday night doom scroll YouTube on Safari (It’s always Safari). I decided to make the cost of revoke much higher and add enforce a replacing pattern. I asked…

I completed 11K Standard Chartered Charity Taipei Marathon, the result was 3 minutes short of my goal. The problem wasn’t the lack of ability. The problem was the easily fall into the crowd. The excuse levitates the pain to fight through the crowd. Excuse sounds much easier. Our brain defaults to avoid pain. I could…

Words I constantly saw on YouTube title during the New Year: goals, habits, system, and theme. This post is to interpret their differences. Goals The milestone we look to achieve, such as loosing 5kg, running sub-60 10K, summer vacation to Thailand. The key to execution is to be as clear as possible. Instead of “Summer…