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Welcome to my thought garden. A public notebook. A space to learn in public. A place to share my perspectives on design, coding, tech, mindset, and parenting.

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STAR Interview Method for Product Designers

STAR Interview Method for Product Designers

Design Tips, Visually

Design Tips, Visually

Imposter syndrome is real

Imposter syndrome is real

Layoff diary

Layoff diary

Powerful life hacks for career, health, and relationship

Powerful life hacks for career, health, and relationship

🌱 A digital garden

🌱 A digital garden

Get a job as a product designer whithout going to design school

Get a job as a product designer whithout going to design school

2022 Thoughts
✦ December

πŸ“— Chat with a crypto company and ex-colleagues

I’ve had a chat with HR from a crypto company. He set up a 1-hour interview, but it only
20 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ December

Perfecting Browse Experience for Buyers

Rethinking the browsing experience for the classified marketplace in Southeast Asia.
19 Dec
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✦ December

Premium eCommerce Website

How do I improve a beauty & fashion commercial retailer website?
19 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ December

πŸ“— Chat with a recruiter from a 3D AI Startup

Today I will have two chats with HR. I did one this morning with E. Their product is innovative. Building
19 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ December

Awesome Figma Tips

Small but awesome tips to work faster in Figma.
19 Dec
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✦ December

Pafolios

A side project created by designers, for designers.
19 Dec
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✦ December

Visualizem

I devour time and effort to collect the best lessons with visual in the internet for you
19 Dec
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
18 Dec
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✦ December

πŸ“— 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
18 Dec
2022 Thoughts
✦ December

πŸ“— 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
16 Dec
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✦ 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
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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
11 Dec
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✦ 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
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✦ 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
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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.
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
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✦ 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
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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
24 Nov
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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
22 Nov
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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
21 Nov
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✦ 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
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