Relatable Asian American Experiences & Lessons with Jimmy O. Yang

I was getting into the holiday spirit a few weeks ago when I started hearing buzz about a Netflix Original Rom-Com Christmas film called Love Hard, featuring Asian American Jimmy O. Yang as the romantic lead. And it was the #1 film in the USA for a few days! After loosely following Jimmy’s career over the years,… Continue reading Relatable Asian American Experiences & Lessons with Jimmy O. Yang

What is Lifestyle Design? How to Engineer the Life You Want

Living the life you want to live and enjoying every moment of it. Sounds like an unreachable dream, right? For some people, it falls in their lap. And they’re the rare few out of millions. For others, it’s the most difficult thing. Tim Ferriss popularized the idea of lifestyle design about a decade ago in… Continue reading What is Lifestyle Design? How to Engineer the Life You Want

How I Made A YouTube Video With 1 Million+ Views

Over the last few years of blogging, I generally haven’t “shown my work.” What I mean is that I’ll blog about happiness, success, meditation, and related topics. I won’t blog about the process of writing those topics, building them, SEO-ing them, and getting them to rank well on search engines and get a lot of… Continue reading How I Made A YouTube Video With 1 Million+ Views

Lessons Learned from the Master FBI Negotiator – Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss [Podcast]

One of the first experiences I had with negotiation tips came from tips I got from people I follow on buying a car at a good price. Here’s a bit of what I learned… The best time to buy a car is at the end of a month based on car salesman sales cycles. They’re… Continue reading Lessons Learned from the Master FBI Negotiator – Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss [Podcast]

How To Negotiate A Job Salary Or Ask For A Raise

I wanted to share with you some insights I picked up from top career books like What Color Is Your Parachute? and best-selling career experts and authors like Ramit Sethi: So there are two possible situations: you just got a new job you’ve been working here for a while and have been overdelivering but not… Continue reading How To Negotiate A Job Salary Or Ask For A Raise

How To Get A Meeting with Any Celebrity – The Third Door Book Summary Notes

Alex Banayan is an interesting kid. Through his naivete and ambition, he pursued an idea that he came up with with his friends: what if there was a university that had the best professors? Elon Musk for science, Bill Gates for business, Jane Gooddall for science? Fast forward a couple years through a lot of… Continue reading How To Get A Meeting with Any Celebrity – The Third Door Book Summary Notes

Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger Book Summary Notes – An Unbelievable Life

Arnold Schwarzenegger has one of the greatest immigrant to America success stories of all time. He grew up in extreme poverty in Austria, became a European bodybuilding champion, because a multi-year international bodybuilding champion, became a real estate millionaire in California, became the world’s top actor, and then became the governor of California. I’ve been… Continue reading Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger Book Summary Notes – An Unbelievable Life