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Useful Feedback, Not Reassurance
Reassurance—while it’s calming—never lasts. Godin says: There’s never enough reassurance to make up for a lack of commitment to the practice. Reassurance is short-term. It amplifies attachment. It shifts our focus from pursuing the practice to maneuvering it to ensure success. So—useful feedback, not reassurance. For example, in my Swedish language learning, there is little… — read more
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The Best Reason to Say “No”
In 2.5 pages in The Practice, Seth Godin explains how to strike a balance between saying “yes” and “no” to focus on the change we seek to make, the generous work of making our own contribution.But beware. […] — read more
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Quotes — “poking and prying with a purpose”
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” —Zora Neale Hurston, American writer and anthropologist — read more
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What Should Exist?
I’ve been ‘marinating’ overnight on this question from James Clear’s 3-2-1 newsletter. “What should exist?” is a question from Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft. Clear’s newsletter this week focuses on resilience, growth, and new opportunities. I find it most timely as I’ve been revisiting visualization—not in the data visualization sort of way—but more in… — read more
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Quotes — “information acquired are grasped in their relations to one another”
“But information is AN UNDIGESTED BURDEN unless it is understood. It is knowledge only as its material is comprehended. And understanding, comprehension, means that the various parts of the information acquired are grasped in their relations to one another — a result that is attained only when acquisition is accompanied by CONSTANT REFLECTION upon the… — read more
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Quotes — “much the way a mechanic might learn about an engine by taking it apart”
“every so often I’ll hear writers say that there are other writers they would read if for no other reason than to marvel at the skill with which they can put together the sort of sentences that move us to read closely, to disassemble and reassemble them, much the way a mechanic might learn about… — read more
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The Little Book of FIKA
THE LITTLE BOOK OF FIKA is a relaxing book to read and oh-so-lagom. I borrowed the e-book version from the library and it’s a perfect little book to read while having breakfast. With a nice cup of coffee. “Fika” is easily my favorite four-letter word but then […] — read more
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Sambal the Red Typewriter
Sambal the Red Typewriter has been with me for almost two weeks now.10 days to be exact. I started a series of Quotes I’m Pondering working very closely with Sambal. — read more
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Tiny Beautiful Things
I would like to thank Isaiah Lim, my good friend and colleague, for recommending this book.TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS is unputdownable. It brought me to tears AND made me laugh out loud. It’s a book that I can’t stop reading. — read more
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Quotes
“I am more focused on the importance of kindness, generosity of heart, and of not tolerating nonsense from people who want to make me feel miserable. I want to spend my precious moments surrounded by great people and experiences that I can get excited about. Life is a limited commodity and I do not take… — read more
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