Today I want to talk about telling personal stories. We are on the cusp of creating a new podcast to share the knowledge and opportunities we have access to with the students we serve. My hope is t… | Continue reading
We fall in love with a creation, a work of art, a song, a poem, piece of code. We’re floored. Just gagging. There’s something about it that we couldn’t have ever possibly conclude… | Continue reading
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We’ve all had to wear a number of different hats over the past 3 weeks. I’ve had to learn how to wear the “making breakfast for my daughter” hat under the “attending a… | Continue reading
Covid-19 is a lot to deal with. The entire world is stressed out. When people are this stressed out they don’t show the best version of themselves. This week I wanted to discuss the de-escala… | Continue reading
Today I wanted to share 3 lessons I learned from reading “The Alchemist” by Paul Coelho. If you haven’t heard of this book before, it’s a novel about a shepherd boy who seek… | Continue reading
What’s your IQ? No, this is a serious question. Have you been asked that before? Probably not, because it’s quite a rude question. Almost as rude as asking someone what they do for a li… | Continue reading
Today I finished reading “The Culture Code” by Daniel Coyle. This is the third book I’ve read about prioritizing psychological safety to create a team that outperforms all others.… | Continue reading
Today I’m trying a new format – a shorter post. Let me know what you think about the new format by contacting me. Today I wanted to post on a book I’ve been looking forward to rea… | Continue reading
In the last post on Vietnamese nail salons, I discussed the power of sharing a story and the social currency it earns. This week’s post will cover how to be a good negotiator. When I think of… | Continue reading
I just finished reading Jonah Berger’s book “Contagious – Why Things Catch On.” Berger shares his 6 step checklist for building contagious products. I’d like to share … | Continue reading
When I was young I’d groan when an adult told me a long story. As they talked, my mind would wander through the details in their story, searching, scanning their words to find out that most i… | Continue reading
Today I set up the drawer in the Flutter app. The drawer is composed of 2 things: a hamburger menu button and a drawer with the list of options for the app. Here’s the code I used to set up t… | Continue reading
Alright, today I’m getting the app started. I’ll first write out what I’m planning to achieve today. Then I’ll list out what I actually got done. I’ll include any prob… | Continue reading
This weekend I delivered a talk on Building Cross-Platform apps with Flutter at the Hawaii iOS Developer Meetup. The talk went well and the audience seemed impres… | Continue reading
I like to think that I’m a fantastic public speaker. But one memory, speaking at my brother’s wedding, reminds me that I am in fact not. But I’m working on it. Before I share that… | Continue reading
My favorite book by Jon Kabat-Zinn is “Wherever You Go There You Are.” That’s why I was looking forward to reading “Full Catastrophe Living” when I saw that it was ava… | Continue reading
This is the second post on mentorship at Iolani High School. Read part one if you’re interested in learning more about the mentorship. The second page she was tasked with creating would allow… | Continue reading
I’m mentoring a highschool student at Iolani High School in the Robotics department. Read Part Two if you’re interested in learning how we hacked the Google Maps API. They’re buil… | Continue reading
I finished reading Clive Thompson’s “Smarter Than You Think” about 2 weeks ago. The topics have had time to stew. Now it’s time to put these thoughts down in a blog post. He… | Continue reading
This is the second post I’ll be sharing on “Gen Z @ Work” by the Stillmans. Read Part One if you’re interested in the points I made in the earlier post. I’m not sure w… | Continue reading
Today I wanted to post on this fantastic book called “Gen Z @ Work” by David Stillman and his son Jonah Stillman, a member of Gen Z himself. I love this book because of the format. Davi… | Continue reading
Today I wanted to post about collaborative circles. At work I’m part of the marketing team. All members have diverse talents. We collaborate together to make the team greater than the sum of … | Continue reading
Today I’ll be posting on Judson Brewer’s “The Craving Mind.” This book has a bunch of good ideas regarding how to curb your social media use. A lot of habit-breaking advice … | Continue reading
A few weeks ago I finished reading “Nonviolent Communication – A Language of Life” by Marshall B. Rosenberg. Here is the second post I’ll be doing on this amazing book. In t… | Continue reading
Last week I finished reading “Nonviolent Communication – A Language of Life” by Marshall B. Rosenberg and I can’t get it out of my head. This book has actionable advice that… | Continue reading
In “Building a Story Brand – Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen,” Donald Miller shares the very important, but easy to miss, distinction between heroes and guides. I… | Continue reading
Today I’ll be posting on the book “The Wealth of Humans” by Ryan Avent. I’d like to discuss how work serves a purpose. When there are too many workers companies create bulls… | Continue reading
I’d like to start off with the assumption from the end of this book that there is no reliable way to read people and infer their opinion. In fact, Nicholas Epley states exactly that in his bo… | Continue reading
This is the third and final post I will be doing on Matthew Crawford’s book “The World Beyond your Head.” I’d like to talk about focus today. What makes you focus? What are … | Continue reading
This is the second in 3 posts I’ll be doing on “The World Beyond your Head” by Matthew Crawford. In the last post I talked about how Getting things right requires triangulate with… | Continue reading
This is the first post of 3 I’ll be doing on Matthew Crawford’s “The World Beyond your Head – On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction.” In this post I’… | Continue reading