Aug
22
Good movies
I recently looked at a list of Oscar winners from the past few decades, and
noticed a significant discrepancy between
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Jimmy Chen
Aug
21
Controlling our time
I think the degree of control we have over ourselves, our environment, and our
time is the single most accurate
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Aug
20
The dangers of prestige
My office is located at a WeWork in Shanghai, and every day I note the slogan:
“Do what you love.
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Aug
19
The value of bad ideas
If we never talk about any ideas that most other people dismiss as bad, some
truly great ideas will invariably
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Aug
18
Saving the bookstore
This past Monday, I walked by a physical bookstore in a mall and spontaneously
went in to have a look.
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Aug
17
The Iron Man problem with technology
I wrote in a recent post that “I’m not predicting impending doom by any means.”
I think I wasn’
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Aug
16
The different types of freedom
What does it mean to achieve financial freedom? How do we know whether we’ve
achieved it?
When in pursuit
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Aug
15
Projects I want to work on
Recently, Paul Graham wrote an essay [http://paulgraham.com/own.html] with the
observation that many kids often experience the
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Aug
14
My diet plan
I completed my physical checkup on Aug 12 and the results were made available
this morning (I've posted
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Aug
13
Living on the edge
We have a natural instinct to value the present far more heavily than the
future. The powerful urge to irrationally
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