Abraham Kim @abrahamKim

Hipsters talk more than Boomers these days.

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Howard felt okay being a broke college student the moment she said that. Yes. This girl that he found beautiful and smart and brave was also a broke college student and this made it so he no longer felt bad for being one. He hadn't even recognized until then that...
Abraham's Pantry
🧇 59 Waffles
🍫 58 Chocolate Bars
🍪 50 Cookies
🥃 46 Whiskeys
🍊 38 Tangerines
☕️ 64 Coffees
🍺 61 Beers
🥟 59 Dumplings
🍍 59 Pineapples
🍵 47 Teas
🍣 62 Sushis
🥓 50 Bacons
🥚 46 Eggs
🥩 48 Steaks
🍓 56 Strawberries
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H1-B
No Jab. Big Hook

The only friend I felt comfortable asking was Dan.  He was also the one who I felt the most shame to ask. 

Dan had been my first friend after moving to this new place called Middleville couple years back in 5th grade. But after I decided that I wanted to become...
2021-03-01 13:32:02

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friends->filter( (f) => f.parents.approve() )

Asking another family to let me stay with them seemed insane. More so than living on my own as a soon-to-be teenager. I see now how much this had to do with my fear of rejection. If I were to go live on my own than nobody could reject me....
2021-02-26 15:30:14

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Funny Imaginations

That first evening after learning we had to move to Korea,  I sat in my room brooding, scheming scenarios that would allow me to stay in the states. I don't remember them all but they converged on me running away and living on my own.

My 12 year old imagination...
2021-02-25 14:46:31

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Interstitial Time

Adults focused on their careers and long running projects know the feeling of returning to square zero. They know what it's like to work hard for some time all the while feeling like they're progressing until one day a blip makes them feel like they haven't progressed at all. In...
2021-02-24 13:56:22

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H-1B

My dad's H-1B expired as I was about to enter my last year of middle school It wasn't all his fault, there was also mishandling on his employer's side. But at the end of the day the blame game didn't matter. Our family had to begin planning our move out...
2021-02-23 14:32:34

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Mirror

Until recently I immediately discounted all stories centering race. Whenever a headline with the subject appeared in my newsfeed I would instinctively shun the perspectives as coming from a person damaged in some other deeper way unaffixed to it, that race was being used yet again as a scapegoat.

In the...
2021-02-22 14:54:41

Index on the present & past rather than the future as reply to Trajectory

People always ask Gary Vaynerchuk how he continues predicting the future before everyone else.

In my countless hours of Gary content consumption I've never seen him accept this praise. Instead he'll clarify that he never gives advice based on trying to predict the future. That he's just observing what's happening...
2021-02-21 15:53:57

Old Abe. New Abe as reply to You Make Your Own Decisions

In high school I wanted to be a pro bodybuilder. 

I never confessed this dream to anybody because I knew it was impossible. 

But even my feasible aspirations related to bodybuilding lifestyle never left my mouth. I spent so many hours daydreaming career and life paths related to bodybuilding. Owning a gym...
2021-02-20 16:55:56

Documenting Adagia
Don't work on a deadline

This week I've been working on things that feel so far from a deadline that it doesn't even feel like one exists. Technically I'm closing the current building phase for Adagia in 2-3 weeks, but this feels like plenty of breathing room to me.

The kind of deadline that makes me...
2021-02-18 19:27:24

Documenting Adagia
Promising productivity vs promising something else

The value propositions of most apps are easily tangible. A dashboard promising to increases writers' visibility into engagement levels or a unified app that allows marketers to control multiple email and social media accounts from a single solution.

When it comes to apps serving writers it's unsurprising that this same approach...
2021-02-15 15:37:53