Chiara Cokieng

This is my view from my window seat in an airplane flying from Manila to Puerto Princesa in Palawan. It’s a short flight. Only one hour. People tend to rail and hate against flights. How they are constantly delayed. How uncomfortable the seats are. How disgusting the food. I’

These days, all I talk about are wrestling and biotechnology. Less than a month ago, I knew nothing about them. My friends are all strangers to them, as I am. They want to know, “Isn’t that hard?” I don’t know. Probably? The thing is, I don’t think

A reread from my teens, just like The Alchemist. This is way better. Morrie’s life is a story on how to live your life as a novel, not a textbook. He wasn’t a superhero who always lived up to his ideals and never felt bad for himself. He

Note: This post is heavily influenced by Brian Balfour's Building a Growth Machine. It came from the era when 'growth hacking' was all the rage. I still recommend the thinking and framework to product managers and product marketers alike. Isn’t bitcoin a scam? That’s

I read this based on Neil Strauss’s recommendation in A Seducer’s Library: The Top Game Books [https://www.neilstrauss.com/neil/a-seducers-library-the-top-ten-game-books-plus-two/] : > Despite what they may say, women do not actually look for confidence in a man. Confidence can easily be faked. What they look for is