Before I forged a solid writing habit I took myself too serious. 

I walked around with this pressure, a ticking time bomb. I needed to finish something meaningful, and I needed to do it soon. 

My reason for wanting to write was grandiose and ego driven. I could only pull...

30s are tough from a lot of my reading. A lot of significant events tend to happen then. The one that becomes stressful is that you are expected to make very long term decisions. Like a partner, career, house and maybe even legacy :). 

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After the world shut down I began working from home.

It was kind of nice to not have to be anyplace. To dress however I wanted. To cook homemeals at my place and feed bits of it to my dog Toby. But the best thing I loved about working from home...

Even if we don't think we are, most of us live lives trying to impress virtual imaginations of how famous people would think about us.

How much time have we spent trying to mold ourselves into someone who would impress some famous designer? Or a CEO we admire? We watch...

Excitement is helpful a helpful vibe to produce to. It makes working on a project more fun.Sometimes it can even feel more fun than having fun in the more traditional sense: for example going out for margaritas or jetskiing. 

But after a few hundred days of writing daily I've recently...

You wouldn't believe how much attention went into this one event. In fact for the past two weeks I don't think my friends talked about anything else. I'll also admit that I wasn't free from all this excitement. I too couldn't wait for this Saturday to come.

But my date cancelled...

After taking the first sip of my third beer I wondered why the thought even entered my head at all. I didn't even share the sentiment with my friends who were already five or six drinks into pregraming because there would be no point. It was a stupid thought anyways....

Until that moment I could've never imagined spending a Saturday night reading inside the cafe . In fact reading a book without it being required for a class already felt foreign enough to me. But watching Sarah talk about her cozy plans for the night rubbed off on me. For...

Do, delegate, drop William Liao illuminated a deep, root-source of organizational inefficiency and teammate misery: an outdated delegation process.

Organizations regularly upgrade their software because it's easier to see how inefficient software slows them down.* But organizations rarely grasp how inefficient their delegation...

It was Sarah P from Chemistry. I felt silly having her ask why I was here rather than preparing for the formal because we didn't know each other that well. We had worked in the same group in labs chemistry labs twice and we chatted in the hallway between classes,...