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2022 Thoughts
✦ December
The best ideas haven’t been created yet.
There are always better ideas.
Many people think all the ideas were already created. But here are some examples that
2022 Thoughts
✦ December
📗 An ex-colleague asked to refer me to a company
Today is Sunday. There’s no more reply from companies. But I have some chat next week. Around 4 chats
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✦ December
📗 One chat with HR and one more invite to chatting
Today is Friday, and there is no job that is in the interview yet. Most of the meetings are with
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✦ December
📗 Getting some replies from companies that I applied
Today I got some replies from some places that I applied: Viki Rakuten, and Coinhako.
I also applied to some
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✦ December
📗 The first official day to look for a job
Today is Wednesday. The first official day for me to look for a job.
Seems like not many companies are
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✦ December
🌱 Folders kill creativity
The folder structure defines specific content belonging to one category.
The content is stored in the same place, but they
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✦ December
🌱 Morning page
Morning pages was mentioned on Julia’s book The Artist’s way.
Every morning, you write three pages in a
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✦ December
📗 Much support from friends and LinkedIn people
Keith, my ex-head of design, sent me a message yesterday. He sent me a Job description from Google and a
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✦ December
🌱 Post Layoff Diary
Sharing my process of looking for new jobs after the layoff.
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✦ December
Internal Time Tracking
Internal time tracker for team.
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✦ December
Leave the todo list to us
How we help homeowner have a better time on moving and relocation?
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✦ December
🌱 Showing random quotes in Obsidian notes with Dice Roller
In 🌱 Obsidian, we can show random quotes in daily notes (or in any note) from your quote collections with the
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✦ December
📗 A long one-hour call with a recruiter
This morning, I had a call with a recruiter from Neuron Mobility, it’s a company I didn’t know
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✦ December
🌱 Goodbye letter to Carousell Product Designers
A note to send to my designer folks. We had too many good things together.
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✦ December
I was laid off, here are some thoughts
On this page
Well, I got laid off.
This is the first time I have left a company without intention,
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✦ December
📗 Affected (by layoff) colleagues are starting to look for a job
Today is the last day we stay in Singapore this year. We will come back after the holiday and with
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✦ December
🌱 From Collector to Creator
We often hoard information because it gives us an illusion of knowledge. We consume too much, but we don’t
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✦ December
📗 Digest the bad news of layoff and meeting Felipe
Many things happened to me. The worse thing is I got laid off from Carousell. I have no more work
2022 Thoughts
✦ November
🍓 4 User Research Lessons for Beginner Product Designers
Personal reflection after doing the first usability testing abroad.
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✦ November
🍓 Keep track of any habit inside your Obsidian
Do you know that you can create your own 🌱 The Seinfeld strategy — Don’t break the chain inside Obsidian to
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✦ November
🌱 A system should follow you, not the other way around
We try to learn a new system, so we ask others what their best practice are and how to do
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✦ November
🌱 The point of taking notes is to think better
We have a habit of taking notes and saving valuable things.
But in the end, those ideas get forgotten and
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✦ November
🌱 Why do we need a second brain?
We often hoard (or save it for later) content because it gives us an illusion of knowledge. But in the
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✦ November
🌱 Don’t break the chain
The Seinfeld strategy
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✦ November
🌱 Obsidian
Obsidian is the new note-taking app that I fall in love with.
It’s not about how cool or how
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✦ November
Learning a new tool brings me to new things
I’m often obsessed with learning new tools I love, and 🌱 Obsidian is the newest favourite.
But at the same
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✦ November
🌱 Build your own Wikipedia
We all heavily use Wikipedia to learn.
Imagine you could have your own Wikipedia with all the things you learn,
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✦ November
🌱 A second brain
A second brain is the trustiest place where you keep all information that matters to you.
In the digital age,
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✦ November
🌱 Offering multiple prices for your product to increase revenue
When we put only one price for your product, it seems that we leave a lot of money on the
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✦ November
🌱 Price Anchoring with Elon Musk
Twitter Blue and Elon Musk gave us a masterclass on how to use anchoring to drive sales.