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2022 Thoughts
✦ December

πŸ“— 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
15 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ December

πŸ“— 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
14 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ December

🌱 Folders kill creativity

The folder structure defines specific content belonging to one category. The content is stored in the same place, but they
13 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ December

🌱 Morning page

Morning pages was mentioned on Julia’s book The Artist’s way. Every morning, you write three pages in a
11 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ December

πŸ“— 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
09 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ December

🌱 Post Layoff Diary

Sharing my process of looking for new jobs after the layoff.
09 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ December

Internal Time Tracking

Internal time tracker for team.
08 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ December

Leave the todo list to us

How we help homeowner have a better time on moving and relocation?
08 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ 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
08 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ December

πŸ“— 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
08 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ December

🌱 Goodbye letter to Carousell Product Designers

A note to send to my designer folks. We had too many good things together.
07 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ 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,
05 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ December

πŸ“— 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
05 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ 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
04 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ December

πŸ“— 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
04 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ November

πŸ“ 4 User Research Lessons for Beginner Product Designers

Personal reflection after doing the first usability testing abroad.
26 Nov
2022 Thoughts
✦ November

πŸ“ Keep track of any habit inside your Obsidian

Do you know that you can create your own 🌱 The Seinfeld strategy β€” Don’t break the chain inside Obsidian to
25 Nov
2022 Thoughts
✦ 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
24 Nov
2022 Thoughts
✦ 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
22 Nov
2022 Thoughts
✦ 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
21 Nov
2022 Thoughts
✦ November

🌱 Don’t break the chain

The Seinfeld strategy
20 Nov
2022 Thoughts
✦ November

🌱 Obsidian

Obsidian is the new note-taking app that I fall in love with. It’s not about how cool or how
17 Nov
2022 Thoughts
✦ 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
16 Nov
2022 Thoughts
✦ 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,
15 Nov
2022 Thoughts
✦ November

🌱 A second brain

A second brain is the trustiest place where you keep all information that matters to you. In the digital age,
14 Nov
2022 Thoughts
✦ 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
13 Nov
2022 Thoughts
✦ November

🌱 Price Anchoring with Elon Musk

Twitter Blue and Elon Musk gave us a masterclass on how to use anchoring to drive sales.
12 Nov
2022 Thoughts
✦ November

🌱 The first 100 are the most difficult

Getting the first 100 subscribers or customers is the most challenging part if you are a creator. It takes a
11 Nov
2022 Thoughts
✦ November

🌱 The new success metric for a knowledge worker is the number of evergreen notes written per day

While reading more notes from Andy Matuschak, I went from hope to disappointment to enlightening. The light today is I
10 Nov
2022 Thoughts
✦ November

Learn in public

The fear of being judged leads us to learn and think privately. But teaching people is the best way to
09 Nov
2022 Thoughts
✦ November

🌱 Fleeting notes

Fleeting notes are your loose thoughts, ideas, and anything in mind. They are unorganized and unstructured. They are to capture
06 Nov
2022 Thoughts
✦ November

🌱 Literature notes

Literature notes are one type of note of [[The Zettelkasten note-taking method]]. They are highlights from the source you’re
06 Nov
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