Year: 2016

How do you get privileged folks to care about the suffering of their fellow non-privileged folks? Ten years ago, I attended a talk by a race scholar, Frank Wu, on racism in America and the role of Asian Americans. I don’t remember his talk at all. I do remember I was fuming the entire time…

One habit that I tracked for a month was becoming an “idea machine” coined by James Altrucher. What’s that? An idea machine is the skill to consistetly come up with a certain number of ideas for a topic. The ideas don’t have to be good. But they have to be many. I did ten ideas…

Intellectuals and engineers have a tough time understanding the importance of human relationships in one’s work. I can say this because I am an intellectual and engineer. To me, number and specifications are honest. Sales and marketing copy is not only unnecessary but dishonest. But, honest sales and marketing does exist. [Permission Marketing is one…

How deep is your love? Is your love deep enough to speak the uncomfortable truths? Even if they hate you for it? Even if speaking what’s most alive and needed risks the relationship? How deep is your clarity and selflessness? Is your clarity deep enough to see that not engaging those scary spaces will inevitably…

Last night, we finished our week long meditation retreat. It was my first time on retreat as the “Operations” role which includes being the sit leader and taking care of everything. The sit leader keeps time, correct people’s posture, wakes up sleepy folks, and so on. And, there’s just a ton of random stuff in…