Blog

2021

• March 10 : How to automatically group all todo items in Craft Docs (like Roam’s TODO page) (0)
• March 6 : How I use Pages vs Blocks in Craft Docs (1)
• March 4 : What’s it like to be a Product Manager in a very technical domain you’re not familiar with? A Twitter thread. (0)
• February 20 : Job hunting in a new country? I’m starting a cohort-based course 👀 (0)
• February 14 : Just-In-Time Reading: How to use books to solve problems (0)

2020

• December 20 : How to get an English-speaking job in Germany, from abroad (0)
• December 12 : Cognitive Distortions (0)
• November 28 : Churchill cried a lot, too. (1)
• November 27 : To get to the good stuff, get it all out and purge the need to write self help (0)
• November 26 : Should you focus on process or results? (0)
• November 25 : Customer Service is overrated (0)
• November 24 : Why I replaced Bear, Obsidian, and Roam Research with Craft (13)
• November 23 : When does one learn ethics in technology and business? (1)
• November 22 : My implementation of Zettelkasten in Craft (1)
• November 21 : How to not waste your youth while you are young (1)
• November 20 : 3 Rules on How to Be Happy, according to Alexander Green (2)
• November 19 : Nothing worth doing is all fun and games. Not even fun and games. (0)
• November 18 : Why I moved to Germany (3)
• November 17 : The last time I cried (2)
• October 26 : Notes: How do I prepare for my German B1 Exam? (0)
• July 16 : Meetings can be the best type of work. (0)
• July 7 : How I change careers so “easily” (2)
• June 27 : Don’t make a hundred (product) decisions when one will do (0)
• June 27 : Platform Product Owner as vehicle and storyteller (and not domain expert) (0)
• June 1 : That’s okay. This is the game I choose to play. (0)
• May 9 : Sparring above your weight class (0)
• May 9 : Thesis: Infrastructure Product Management is a unique category of PM-ing and needs its own best practices (0)
• May 6 : A mini enlightenment (0)
• April 26 : How do you measure if your product is providing real value? It’s enough to measure if your user is using it. (0)
• January 6 : [H] Managing Oneself (Harvard Business Review Classics) by Peter Ferdinand Drucker (0)

2019

• December 25 : Decade in Review: 2010-2019 (2)
• December 9 : Q&A to: Filipino’s Guide to Overseas Employment Certificate (OEC) for Direct Hires (9)
• October 26 : No one is coming to save us (0)
• October 25 : Book: Gateless by Sebastian Marshall and Kai Zau (0)
• October 24 : Job Hunting Directives from Knock ’em Dead (0)
• October 23 : A meditation on operations (0)
• October 22 : How I’m evaluating if I can use Bear Notes as my “Second Brain” again (2)
• October 16 : @DeutschChiara (2)
• October 13 : Tip: Keep a “Smile File” (0)
• October 12 : True learning requires doing (0)
• October 11 : How I organize my commonplace book in Notion (0)
• October 10 : How strongly does business leadership correlate with extraordinary financial success? (0)
• September 27 : Book Review and Notes: Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil (0)
• September 26 : Is the altMBA worth it? (0)
• September 3 : Predicting Your Future by Believing in Statistics + The Hallway Test (0)
• July 26 : Confidence (0)
• July 25 : What are business and self-help books for? (0)
• July 12 : Should you stay at home and take care of your parents, or move out and live independently? (0)
• June 28 : How fast to make change as the new person (0)
• January 24 : What I’m reading (January 2019) (0)

2018

• November 2 : How to account for Alexander’s rise to the top? It’s more than just being nonstop (0)
• August 18 : Q&A with Jeffrey Wan on Turing School, Flatiron School, and coding bootcamps — reasons people fail, how to prepare, minimizing regret, and more (0)
• July 23 : Be OK being misunderstood (0)
• March 15 : Being nice as the opposite of being truthful (0)
• January 3 : Saying no to the things that don’t matter (0)
• January 1 : My reading year, 2017 (0)
• January 1 : Sometimes, to take control means asking for help (0)

2017

• December 14 : Books and highlights – Week of 4 December 2017 (0)
• November 25 : Reminiscing a four-year friendship with Sebastian Marshall (0)
• August 15 : Why I quit my first job (0)
• August 14 : Why I quit being an Olympic hopeful (0)
• August 13 : My three words for 2017 (0)
• August 13 : Favorites from the Archives: 2015-2016 (0)
• August 11 : On good management with Paulo Ribeiro (0)
• August 8 : Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer (0)
• August 8 : The Godfather by Mario Puzo (0)
• May 26 : How to find the answer when it’s not on Google (0)
• May 20 : The day you become happy (0)
• April 15 : If You Can: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly by William J Bernstein (0)
• January 13 : I am participating in Book Riot’s 2017 Read Harder Challenge (0)

2016

• December 28 : Should you start reading “great” books in 2017? (2)
• December 24 : The battle against letting people manipulate us with guilt (0)
• July 5 : A Fountainhead moment (0)
• June 16 : Be a woman who wrestles (0)
• May 27 : How was the Vipassana course? My response. (0)
• March 31 : Break the opponent’s balance before you attack (0)
• March 22 : Are your problems worse than mine? (0)
• March 21 : Why do you climb mountains? (0)
• March 18 : The day I got it in my head to join the Olympics (0)

2015

• November 20 : Book: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (8/10) (0)
• November 10 : Why and how Coins.ph can improve retention in the next 60 days (0)
• October 29 : Book: The six pillars of self-esteem by Nathaniel Branden (8/10) (0)
• October 26 : Tried and True or New and Improved? (0)
• October 21 : Book: No B.S. Trust Based Marketing by Dan Kennedy (10/10) (0)
• October 18 : Book: Go to Market Strategy (10/10) (0)
• October 9 : I got laid off from my startup job – here’s what I learned (0)
• September 19 : Notes on leadership and strategy from Book: Ender’s Game (9/10) (0)
• September 18 : When to be a kid, when to be an adult (0)
• September 16 : Stories download life lessons into your heart (0)
• September 12 : Book: The Art of Racing in the Rain (9/10) (0)
• September 4 : Book: Write it down make it happen (4/10) (0)
• September 2 : Not recognizing the fear (is the dream-killer) part 1 (0)
• August 31 : The real reason you should write everyday (1)
• July 15 : Book: Never Let Go by Dan John (0)
• July 8 : Book: Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith (0)
• June 3 : Unfashionable thoughts on death, grief, and dying (0)
• June 1 : Review: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield (0)
• June 1 : Review: Principles by Ray Dalio (0)
• June 1 : Review: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (0)
• June 1 : Review: Lincoln’s Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk (0)
• June 1 : Review: The Unpublished David Ogilvy (0)
• June 1 : Review: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (0)
• June 1 : Review: The The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (0)
• April 7 : Serendipity and other overrated things (1)
• March 7 : You suck at meeting new people, and it’s not your fault (0)
• March 6 : 10 fears disguising as plain, old bad habits (0)
• March 5 : Don’t forget the human on the other side of the screen (0)
• March 4 : Today, I am happy with myself (0)
• March 3 : Things that scared me today (3)
• March 2 : Recognize the fear keeping you stuck (0)
• March 1 : The “little things” that cause most relationships to fail (0)
• February 2 : The decision to be patient and build self first (0)

2014

• December 18 : Sweat the small stuff (0)
• December 12 : “So, you are alive, then, as you are?” (0)
• November 18 : Finally reading 33 Strategies of War (0)
• November 5 : Good at rationalizing poor behavior? Learn to ask better questions. (0)
• November 3 : This is how motivated I am to go to the gym (0)
• October 18 : Everything I’ve learned about the purpose of life (1)
• October 1 : How to fail at almost everything and still win big by Scott Adams (1)
• August 25 : No. B.S. Price Strategy by Dan Kennedy (0)
• August 20 : My life from birth to 23 (13)
• August 15 : Fuck them (0)
• August 12 : Richard Feynman – a guy worth reading (0)
• August 9 : How to be grateful for vampires in your life (1)
• July 27 : On becoming so good they can’t ignore you (0)
• July 22 : Business should be fun (2)
• April 20 : How I’m quitting chocolate cake (10)
• April 18 : Why people don’t *let you know how you can help* (7)
• April 18 : How to stop self-sabotaging in 3 easy steps (really)
• April 17 : Why aren’t there mental gyms yet? (17)
• April 14 : Why high expectations may lead to lower achievement (3)
• April 14 : Should you join the Damn Fine Words scholarship contest? (free tips on how to win inside) (1)
• April 7 : When stuck, ask “What’s really going on here?” (0)

2013

• April 21 : What Will You Do With Someone Who is Ready, Willing, and Able to Commit? (0)