Category: Work & Leadership
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The millionaire Window Opens Every 30 Years
The opportunity to become a millionaire by stock investment will come around once every 30 years. The last major wave was during the dot-com and internet boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s.at that time, things were chaotic and…
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My Australian Realization
For a long time, I thought the U.S. was the ultimate place to be for a tech-savvy person like me. But recently, I realized that everything I truly need is right here in Australia. Interestingly, I’m hearing the same voice…
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Magic happens in cross of unrelated things
My nephew asked me should I do double degree of law and art or computer science and electronics! Two of the most related things? “I think you should do two completely unrelated things like computer science and psychology, or nursing…
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How to Get Rich without Getting Lucky by Naval
Naval Ravikant is master in investing, happiness and philosophy! None of these are related but he has this talent mix. He re-shaped my thoughts recently by his wisdom. In 2018, Naval posted 28 tweets on how to build wealth that…
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The Ownership Illusion: The Paradox of Modern Corporate Stock Compensation
As a common practice in big companies, total compensation packages include stock which is used to advocate “ownership mentality.” The aim is to encourage employees to work harder and help the company’s success so both parties benefit. But the hidden…
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Severed Without the Chip: How Work Culture Programmed My Mind
I just finished watching Severance on Apple TV. The idea is simple but terrifying: what if your work self and personal self were completely disconnected? A clean split done by surgery and a chip implanted into your brain! No memory…
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Heroism
Once at work, I was told: “We do not need heroes, so don’t play the hero. Instead, focus on building sustainable processes.” So I did. I built a process that was widely adopted and praised. But within a few months,…
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If the Why Doesn’t Click, Neither Do I
I was passing by two cafes near the train station. One of them had this massive line, people were standing there for fancy croissants, all nicely decorated on the counter, and you could tell the marketing was clever. The other…
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Dr. E or Mr. E?
I looked into the AI Index report from Stanford today. PhD researchers like Ilya Sutskever published great academic papers like “Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks” in 2014. “Attention Is All You Need,” which introduced the Transformer architecture and…
