This is a biased point of view. It is biased because most of the companies I worked for are hardware oriented or started with hardware. They are also large corporations. An observation that I derived with a friend was it’s more likely for software company to succeed in hardware versus hardware company in software. Great…

SharePoint document set has a limitation: two document sets can’t layer naturally and metadata is encouraged. This enforced a hard coded rule: top layer folder -> one layer document sets plus metadata columns -> files. From a product dev point, this is a tough feature limitation to make, considering the audience of Office and Windows…

AI makes content faster and better; better logic, better story, long form, short form, and under substantially less time. It even knows what I’m trying to say before I can verbalize it clearly. Is there still value to still do things manually? Experience might be the value of being human. During the process, the how’s…

This image surprised me because I only have a vague visual idea when I described the statement, but it gave me an output with more depth of insight and clarity. It knew what I was trying to say before I said it clearly. The image would have took multiple people and hours to complete, but…

Thinking this would be a good idea to paint a concept of VSaaS, I snapped this photo on the way off HSRT ride. With Google’s Nano Banana and couple of product photos, I could turn this into what I have imaged! Whether this is a good visual is subjective, but it saved me a least…

Creativity is hard to come by and the market pace nowadays is incredible fast with AI. How can we shorten the time of content creation? Austin Kleon’s book Steal Like An Artist introduced me the idea of a swipe folder. After 3 years of collection, here’s what my Google Drive looks like. Since I use…

Nancy Duarte’s book, Resonate, maps out the rhythm for an effective presentation with the idea of sparkline. It diverges from the conventional understanding of rising action, climax, and falling action. It’s more true in most business presentation as the products or solutions are not that different and audience lacks patience to build up the climax.…

Product demo is engaging, fun, and risky all at the same time. One unexpected fail ignites the chill that sweats our back. 1. Cables, cables, cables Sudden voice drop, mic caught on nearby conversation, unexpected low battery notice; the problem is wireless connections are not always reliable. We can’t guarantee cabled network connection, but keeping…

I’m not a designer, and by no means am I trying to become one. The objective of color is to highlight the information, and highlight is building contrast. I use 3 colors in my slide: grey, black, and one primary color. More colors requires more skills to maneuver, so I rarely do so unless I’m…

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.