Starting work at 5 am is not the hardest, sleeping at 10 pm is. Because lures are everywhere. Working at 5 is not the hardest.

This new job requires to work closely with US and Canada, so it allowed me to work at 5 am. I’ve found some benefits: 1). Productivity: each session are more equally divided. 2). Confidence: knowing that this is a difficult discipline. 3). Forced lifestyle: start on time and take breaks on time to manage the…

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…

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.…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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.…