Thought Garden
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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2022 Thoughts
✦ 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.
2022 Thoughts
✦ 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
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
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
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
2022 Thoughts
✦ November
🌱 Don’t break the chain
The Seinfeld strategy
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
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
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,
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,
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
2022 Thoughts
✦ November
🌱 Evergreen notes
Evergreen notes are similar to permanent notes or Zettels from The Zettelkasten note-taking method. I prefer the name evergreen notes because it’s human and inspiring.
2022 Thoughts
✦ November
🌱 A digital garden
A digital garden is a place to plant the seeds for future ambitious works. It was seeded with many [[🌱 Evergreen notes]] and linked to each other.
2022 Thoughts
✦ November
Find a way to raise your voice
Today I have a tough conversation with my head of product design. Yes, it’s about the performance review.
2022 Thoughts
✦ July
Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind
Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human, such as our thoughts, our actions, our power ... and our future.
2022 Thoughts
✦ May
A post for archive tag
To create the tag page
2022 Thoughts
✦ February
Hooked
A four-step process embedded into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior
2021 Thoughts
✦ November
A complete guide for Lottie animation with GatsbyJS
Lottie animation is easier than you think. In this post, we will create a Lottie animation, from After Effect to prototype to export handover files for developers.
2021 Thoughts
✦ November
Essential skills for product designers
For designers, only good design skill doesn’t guarantee success. We need more skills to be better and succeed in your career.
2021 Thoughts
✦ November
Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success
I’m reading ‘How to fail at almost everything and still win big’ by Scott Adam. There's one idea that enlightens me and I think everyone should know about it.
2021 Thoughts
✦ July
You’re saying sorry too much
Saying sorry is a good habit, but saying it too much is the contrast. Sometimes, we apologize too much and it affects your presence. Replace sorry with a better phrase will make your ideas more compelling and show up stronger.
2021 Thoughts
✦ January
2020 year in review
2020 is the year none would forget. It was supposed to be a good year with a beautiful number. But what happened was terrible. Today is the time to reflect on the past year.
2020 Thoughts
✦ September
To be a good designer
One of the biggest lessons I learned this year is the power of confidence, for a designer.
2020 Thoughts
✦ July
Learn to code
The greatest lesson from the book The Icarus Deception by Seth Godin