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Enjoyment
I was playing basketball the other day, and it dawned on me… there are very few things I do purely for enjoyment. I was there on a Sunday afternoon by myself in an empty, underutilized beautiful hardwood court. No one had to convince me to play. I didn’t have to force myself or tell myself…
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“How to pick your life partner”
“How to Pick Your Life Partner, Part 2” written by Tim Urban for his blog, “Wait but Why”, from 2014 still resonates with me today. It’s one of my favorite posts. I revisit it from time to time. He writes about how “a great achievement is just what a long series of unremarkable tasks looks…
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Being a better listener (and dinner date! and work colleague!)
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid to me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer” – Henry David Thoreau I’ve started dating again, after a 7-month self-imposed break since my last break-up. But I’ve noticed a bad habit – after the first couple dates, I stop listening. Instead…
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A paragraph a day?
There’s so much I want to express, but attempting to capture everything at once seems overwhelming, in both written and verbal communication. So the outcome tends to be binary – either I don’t start/say anything or end up ‘dumping’ in the form of freewriting or even worse, “word vomitting.” I used to be so scared…
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Innovation in the actual balls used in sports
I love basketball. I enjoy playing basketball, even just shooting a basketball on my own. The sound of a swish, the release of the ball from my fingertips, making corrections to my form, it all is really satisfying. As I moved from city to city, I tried to find a court, but I remember a…
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2023 goal setting
DAMNNN, it’s already mid-March 2023! I know I haven’t posted for four months since November 2022! Coincidentally, it’s also when I started working near full-time again. Now that Q1 of 2023 is nearly over, it’s the perfect time to revisit progress towards this year’s goals. Do you set New Year Resolutions? What goals do you…
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Wow, I love boxing
Wow, I’m hooked. I just finished a one-on-one boxing session with a trainer at a nearby park. I loved it. It was such a great workout. He had me jumping rope, taught me how to punch, and doing sit-ups to punch up with gloves. I was in a semi-squat position for most of the hour.…
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Election Day
For a state that values data privacy, California should offer voters the right to keep their contact information and voting history private. The privacy problem This election cycle, I received a noticeable increase of mailers, text messages, and emails from campaigns. In San Francisco, there were 22 propositions on the ballot and several tight races,…
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Innovation in DAFs
In 2015, Barron’s profiled Legacy Venture, a Palo Alto-based investment firm that uses money from donor-advised funds (DAFs) to invest in VC fund managers and then distributes returns from those VC funds to nonprofit organizations. So to break this down: As of the 2015 article, their latest fund of $250m invested in 20 underlying funds.…
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The Twitter Whistleblower
In this past week, on August 23, 2022, The Washington Post reported on a whistleblower complaint made by Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko, a former Twitter security executive, about Twitter. Here’s a WashPo gift link if you hit a paywall: https://wapo.st/3clFzg2. WashPo also hosted a Twitter Spaces chat on the same day. I noticed several former and…
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