Opinions
What I said in Argentina: Innovation is a Transaction
📖Context: I was invited to be on a panel at the Inter-American Development Bank's Lab Forum in Buenos Aires, where I spoke innovation, climate change, and food security. It's online if you want to watch it, but I wrote the ideas here below. I humbly thank IDB Lab for the
How I maintain friendships: A toolkit
Maintaining friendships is hard. It's even harder for friends in different time zones, friends who are busy and/or ambitious, and friends who have just fallen out of the radar over the years. I am reflecting on a few useful tactics I've accumulated over the years. I hesitate to publish
Forget gratitude journals, try chain journaling
I invented a new form of gratitude journaling, called chain journaling
How to start running: A biochemical perspective
I started running seriously last year, coming from basically zero aerobic base. I think I made big improvements in a short amount of time, and it's largely because of how I focused my training. There are 3 main modalities of training: 1. Mechanical - musculoskeletal, kinetic patterns, strength, flexibility 2.
Dictation as writing therapy
In the most tumultuous times of my life, I've always found solace in writing as therapy. Journaling lets me pull at the threads that keep inserting themselves throughout the day, and organize them on a page that feels secure. Writing is even more helpful in conjunction with actual therapy (with
Affinity (CRM) sucks, part 1
💡Disclaimer: I have never made software and I don't know what it's like to be on engineering and product teams. I don't know the pressures they have to go through to ship code by some sales deadline, etc. So everything I am writing about is all about my personal experience
How to remap modifier keys in Windows
I am at home in Oregon for the holidays, at my childhood home where my parents still live. I didn't bring my keyboard or mouse, and when I need a break from peering my neck over my laptop, I will use the PC setup that is available (my brother's gaming
An argument for threading in Slack
Hot take: Slack workspaces where users don't thread are doomed to die
Unsung Hero: Silicone Spatula
It's the most underrated utensil in the kitchen.
I love YNAB
Less a review of the YNAB budgeting software, more lessons of I learned from it
