Welcome!

When you join our community, you gain the ability to engage in discussions, share your thoughts, and send private messages to fellow members.

SignUp Now!

Search results

  1. K

    A Lifestyle to Embrace in the New Decade

    We are about to leave 2010-2019 behind and enter a new decade. The new decade will bring new challenges and opportunities. How can we be prepared for them? Well, I believe there is a lifestyle that will be relevant in the new decade. It’s a lifestyle of creativity. I came to this conclusion...
  2. K

    How to Reinvent Yourself: A Quick Guide

    How do you look at this pandemic situation? Well, there are two ways: positive or negative. Negatively, you might look at this situation as a force that drags you down. It takes you away from your dreams and aspirations. It hinders you from reaching your full potential. Positively, however...
  3. K

    How to Become Adaptable in Uncertain Times

    We now live in an uncertain time. Things that seemed certain just a few months ago may seem uncertain now. What seemed like sure bets back then may turn out to be the opposite. So how can we go through this? Well, I believe that the key to survive and even thrive in uncertain times is being...
  4. K

    How to Be Prepared for Opportunities

    You only get a few opportunities, and you have to grab them aggressively when they come because even in the most favored life, they’re really rare. – Charlie Munger How do you reach your full potential? A big part of that, I believe, is making the most of your opportunities. The more you can...
  5. K

    Being Creative: Four Keys From a Great Game Designer

    I loved playing computer games. In fact, that’s how I first learned to code: by making simple games. Though I no longer spend much time on games these days, I’m still interested in the field. That’s why I was excited when I found the memoir of Sid Meier. You might never hear of him, but he is a...
  6. K

    The Coming Threats of Generative AI and What to Do

    In my last post, I wrote that there is currently an emergence of AI tools that can create new content, called generative AI. These tools can generate emails, poems, images, and more based on your input (known as prompts). This is a recent development because the tools emerged only in 2022. The...
  7. K

    The Power of Preparation: The Nvidia Story

    For the past few months, I’ve been following the world of AI. The development in the field has been accelerating since the launch of ChatGPT in November last year. Bill Gates wrote back in March that the age of AI has begun. One of the winners of this AI boom is Nvidia. Its chips power most of...
  8. K

    From Music to the Stars: The Inspiring Journey of William Herschel

    I’m inspired by the story of William Herschel in The Age of Wonder. He was an accomplished musician living in 18th-century England. Originally an immigrant from Hanover, he arrived penniless. Yet over time, he established himself as a respected musician and even secured an important position in...
  9. K

    25 Holiday Play Ideas To Make The Season More Fun

    ‘Tis the season to add more fun into your schedule. The holiday season is often also a busy season with lots of work deadlines before (hopefully) taking some time off to enjoy and spend time with your family. Ever since we created our podcast, Playground To Purpose, my childhood bestie and I...
  10. K

    How To Tap Into Your Intuition To Create A More Aligned Life

    Intuition is the voice within that directs you toward the next right thing. It protects you from harm and is the signpost guiding you to a better life experience. Intuition whispers. It will manifest in the body: the niggle, hair raising, sweat, chills, etc. Intuition is your inner being, God...
  11. K

    6 Things to Consider When You Feel Chronically Overwhelmed

    Do you ever look at your to-do list and feel the panic set in because there’s too much to do and not enough time to do it? You’re not alone! To eliminate overwhelm, people swear by productivity hacks, prioritization strategies, and making big tasks bite-sized. Don’t get me wrong, these can all...
  12. K

    5 Reasons Your Life Feels Fine But Not Great

    Does your life look good on paper but it doesn’t feel as good as it should? If so, this is for you! There are five reasons you might look at your life and think “I should feel happier — what gives?” 1. You aren’t honest about what you truly want Is the life you have the one you genuinely...
  13. K

    Let’s Break Down This Whole “Reparenting” Thing

    I’ll be honest with you — when I first heard people talking about “reparenting” I was bamboozled. It was yet another trendy buzzword bandwagon that I wasn’t keen to jump on — I blame it on being an Enneagram 4. But one day, it hit me like a freight train, and I thought “Oooooooh…. THIS is what...
  14. K

    Experiment: A Formula to Achieve Success

    In A Simple Guide to Finding Good Ideas I wrote that to find good ideas you should produce a lot of ideas. You can get quality out of quantity. I recently realized that similar principle also applies to finding success in life. While to find good ideas you should produce a lot of ideas, to find...
  15. K

    Personal Analytics: The Next Big Thing in Self Improvement?

    Recently the idea of personal analytics hits me more and more. What is personal analytics? It’s a way of making decisions in someone’s life based on numbers. You measure certain aspects of your life, analyze the results, and make decisions based on them. Over time I find more things pointing to...
  16. K

    4 Essential Lessons From the Polymaths

    In The Medici Effect (here is my review), there’s a term I’m interested in: the Intersection. It’s a place where ideas and experiences from different fields meet and form new ideas. It’s a fascinating place to be because excitement from different fields come together at one place. Even more, you...
  17. K

    A Guide to Having a Crisis-Proof Career

    Do you want to make your career crisis-proof? Do you want it to thrive even in difficult times? The key is to be quick to adapt to changing conditions. Change is the only constant in the market and you are crisis-proof only if you can quickly adapt to new conditions. As I wrote in my post about...
  18. K

    The Worst Advice on Creativity That You Will Ever Receive

    Note: This post is written by Ben Brychta Shouldn’t creativity be left to artists and musicians? Absolutely not. Creativity has its place in the boardroom, classroom, and even on the factory floor. In fact, if you can train yourself to think creatively, both your professional and personal life...
  19. K

    6 Success Lessons from the Story of Instagram

    I recently listened to an excellent podcast episode from NPR. It’s about how Instagram was built. The story is remarkable. The founders of Instagram – Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger – launched the app in October 2010. In April 2012 – just one and a half years later – the service was acquired...
  20. K

    The Danger of Creative Destruction

    I’m currently reading Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. The book is about how nations throughout history reached prosperity or poverty. In essence, nations reach prosperity through innovations that bring them to new economic heights. The Industrial Revolution in the...
Back
Top