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Hi 🍻, I have changed the format of this newsletter. I want this to be more valuable and easier for you to read. Let me know what you think by replying to this email directly. I am using my personal email to talk to you, and I love chatting with you! 😀 A few things I thought were worth sharing this week: 1. Tales.com is an amazing servi...

Hello. Thank you for trusting me with your email. You and I are now connected, 直到永遠, till death do us part. 💍 What you are reading is a newsletter of 3 things that you can enjoy in 3 minutes. And, this newsletter is a piece of us, at this moment of time. Let's go. ---------- 1x SILLY THING: What I love the most about Autumn? Fat Bear W...

1x FACT: The Great China Crackdown Here are some of the industries China has been cracking down on, from Crypto to feminine young male: 1. Fintech companies 2. Ecommerce and social media companies 3. Celebrity and fan club culture 4. High-income individuals who avoid taxes, or make “excessively high incomes” 5. Tutoring and education c...

1x FACT: Hurricane Ida is a storm straight from hell. Its storm surge was so strong that it temporarily reversed the flow of the Mississippi River. For the first time in history, Hurricane Ida became the first storm that went from non-existent to a near-Category-5 landfall in 72 hrs. “"We knew this was going to happen. We know that cli...

1x LEADERSHIP THOUGHT: Do you remember where you were on September 11th, 2001? I do. I have a personal story of 911. I have my own narrative of how I participated in that moment in history. I was in Ann Arbor, walking down South State street. In the air, beneath the warm confident blue sky, a whisper of the dry Midwest cold to come. I ...

1x LEADERSHIP THOUGHT: Ultimately, the success of the founder/boss/CEO is defined by your leadership team. I was pitching to a corporate client on a leadership team training project. We discussed how to train managers. The conversation started with the skills they wanted to train their manager on - setting priorities, EQ, hiring. I wan...

---------- 1x LEADERSHIP THOUGHT: Composure is a highly underrated leadership skill. It is the ability to not lose our shit. While calmness is a big part of composure, composure also includes the ability to control how we appear to others under all situations. Therefore composure is both about managing ourselves and settling others. I ...

👋🏼 The Olympics have started! I almost forgot about this newsletter because I have spent all my hours enjoying beautiful competitions. ---------- 1x LEADERSHIP THOUGHT: I finished the "Amazon Trilogy" books: The Everything Store, Amazon Unbound, and Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon. My biggest takeaw...

Notice. This is who you are, in this moment You are precisely this experience This moment of hearing This moment of seeing This moment of feeling There is always just this, whatever else seems to be happening There is always just this, the experience of this precise moment From Sam Harris

👋🏼 This week I want to tell you about why I have become a gig worker, fun facts about emojis, and what it is like to try to run at a World Record marathon pace (ouch). ---------- 1x SILLY THING: Watch humans fall and fumble trying to keep up with Eliud Kipchoge, World Record holder of the Marathon. Eluid's current world record is 2 hou...

---------- 1x FACT, 1x LEADERSHIP THOUGHT, 1x SILLY THING - A 3 min newsletter of 3 things I collected and curated for you and I. 👋🏼 Happy 1st of July for those in Hong Kong and happy 4th of July for those in the US. Thank you for sticking around. Now, onto semen, abs, and mental mobility. ---------- 1x SILLY THING: Over 90,000 men hav...

Hi. I have been struggling. As a 45 year old first time entrepreneur, I find being on my own surprisingly difficult. I now truly know what "I am too old for this shit" feels like. I didn't realize how much I have gotten used to surviving and navigating in a workplace where the circumstances, context, and rules were defined. • I knew wh...

You are still here! Me too! Yay? Yay! 🙌🏼 ---------- 1x FACT, 1x LEADERSHIP THOUGHT, 1x SILLY THING - A 3 min newsletter of 3 things I collected and curated for you and I. ---------- 1x SILLY THING: I created a website where I collect things that bring me "awe." I realised I could use more awe in my life because noticing awe has been th...

TAKE A MOMENT ... And think about all the things in this life ... That you will experience for the last time. When was the last time you swim in the ocean? Or went camping? When was the last time you took a walk just to take a walk? As you go about your day today, consider everything you’re doing is like this- Everything represents a f...

I am still around. So are you. Thank you. Here we go, 1x FACT, 1x LEADERSHIP LESSON, 1x SILLY THING- a 3 min newsletter of 3 things I collected and curated, for you, with fried cicadas. ---------- 1x SILLY THING: Last night, we found a baby cicada in our room. Meanwhile, in the US, billions of cicadas are coming out of the ground this ...

1x FACT • 1x LEADERSHIP LESSON • 1x SILLY THING (A 3 Min Newsletter of 3 Random Things) ---------- 1x FACT: Thinking of writing your own book? Don't, because 98% of books ended up just selling between 0 - 1,000 copies. Give up that dream, post your thoughts on social media instead, and save some trees. ---------- 1x LEADERSHIP THOUGHT:...

1. Busting Coffee Making Hacks “"A half hour AeroPress video? Yes please!" ” Coffee Jesus James Hoffmann busted some AeroPress myths: • Stir or swirl? Does it matter whether you stir or swirl right before you press down the plunge? • Hiss or not? Should you stop pressing before or after the hissing sound? • Inverted or not?! 2. I Run F...

We adopted a puppy. Her name was Honey. She had a simple back story- Folks at Hong Kong Dog Rescue found her and her 3 sisters and put them up for adoption. The interesting thing about these sisters? They looked too alike to be mongrels. They might be a mix of two pure breeds. Well, we would never know. But every super hero had a drama...

I am a middle-aged Dad. I have spent my entire life working in cubicles. I know little about tech. I made a NFT art, and I would like to share with you the journey. NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token. It is a type of cryptocurrencies. If you don’t know what this is, start here. I have been struggling to keep up with the blockchain/crypt...

This is my favorite quote. “If more information was the answer, we'd all be billionaires with 6 pack abs.” ~Derek Sivers Examples of excessive "information": "Be vulnerable" "Sleep well" "Start with why" "Lead, don't manage" "Exercise" "Be kind" "Active listening" "Attentive listening" "Reflective listening" "Be grateful" "Growth minds...

The Peak, Hong Kong, Pre-1869 painting via RGS-IBG image / E. L. Watling Same view of Hong Kong, present time. --- “Hong Kong is gone.” I was born in the 70s, right at the watershed of the millennials and Generation X. I grew up with Nintendos and Japanese comic books. I lived through 1984 when the Mac and the Sino British Joint Declar...

I finished the book “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art” by Scott McCloud. It was written in the mid 90s. I have already begun to miss reading the book. The author helped me understand why I felt the way I felt while reading comics- how time transpired, how emotions manifested, how actions were imagined …. He also contrasted the c...

Academics and recruiters talk a lot about hiring & interviewing. But interviewing in the real world is quite different. I wish they warned me of these interview questions that made me cry: 1. "What were the names of the people you have met before this interview?" I was in my last round and this was the first question she asked me. I di...

I know, I come across strange. Who is this Asian man who is in all my Clubhouse rooms, asking questions that are always a little bit off? Why is he liking everything I post, buying every book I wrote, @ me in every one of his posts? I love the tales of Jason, Matt, Tobi, Scott, Waqas, and Austin. I want to be like them, because they ar...

Since fall, 1996, on that Mac in the computer lab in Angell Hall, Ann Arbor, I have been writing to the internet. HTML Blogger Blogspot Medium Wordpress Now world.hey.com. Will this be the end of the search?