2 weeks ago, I came across a small café, Spot Café, and ordered an Italian Cannelloni (roll of pasta filled with cheese, meat, and tomato sauce). The chef, grandpa-like figure came out and said ‘I gave you some bread with it’. I love bread and thank him. I sat down at a nearby park and …
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Back to Basics
My boss asked me to support customer research. Before deep-diving into customer interviews and competitive landscape analysis, I’m thinking of the end goal and how to conduct the research. If we don’t ask the right people the right questions, we’ll not get to the right answers. People say ‘less is more’. It only tells half …
A Different July 4th
Due to Covid-19, many US cities cancelled events and fireworks for July 4th to avoid the crowd. To celebrate at home, my roommate S and I made and shared champignon pizza (French-style with mushroom) for lunch and orange chicken with vegetable over brown rice for dinner. S said orange chicken is among the most popular …
Freedom with Consideration
Happy Independence Day to America! I heard from radio that Surgeon General Adam encouraged people to wear facing covering…”…if more wear them, we’ll have MORE freedom to go out*…” He is right and I think it’d be even better to add that it’s not only to exercise and promote our own freedom but to respect …
Maturity (Growth) vs. Learning
For people who love learning, it’s part of life yet learning is different from growth, or more accurately, maturity. Learning usually focuses on being able to do new things or get better with existing capabilities. Maturity is to distinguish what’s worth doing and be willing to do so even if feeling uncomfortable or unsure. Or …
Take a Moment to Recognize
We successfully released a milestone feature at the end of May, pilot and prepared teams and partners for the change management in June, and rolled-out system-wide today. Last week we also gave a highly complimented team presentation about the journey at company’s learning event (see ‘Teamwork for Positive Changes’ post). With organizational change and initiative …
Try it
My roommate and I received an angry text from the leasing agent that he didn’t want to share the wifi anymore and asked us to get our own. He said I complained for the bumpy service (interrupted important work meetings) while he couldn’t come to re-boot the server and we didn’t pay. My roommate usually …
Signs of Hope
I saw the display (image) in the neighborhood. It made me smile. What a great idea to spread hope and love. I like the honor system, you choose a sign and put money in the box. 100% profit will go to small businesses that are impacted by Covid-19. I don’t know if the honor system …
Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival is one of the top three festivals in Chinese culture. Zonzi (see images, made with sticky rice, meat, mushroom, duck yolk, etc. and wrapped in bamboo leaves; different provinces and families have different recipes and styles) and dragon boat racing are the highlights. I love zonzi yet with Covid-19, I don’t plan …
Teamwork for Positive Changes
My boss asked me to present at company’s monthly learning event. I named it ‘teamwork for positive changes’ and did several things new/ differently. First, I asked team to co-present (vs. the usual solo). It’s more fun and every success is a team efforts. Second, I want to engage the audience so we sent pre-session …