How to Learn Better with Modern EdTech Designs — Education vs. Learning What we collectively refer to as education hasn’t changed much for centuries, yet the way we learn has drastically improved over the past decade. I’m not here to preach you with the idealism of what education should be. You can find that pretty much anywhere else. …

An underutilized scientific theory that deserves a startup. — In 2013, I blogged about a study technique based on an insight that there’s an optimal time to review what you learned. Review too early you’re wasting your time, review too late you’ve forgotten too much and have to relearn it. Review at the right time — when you still…

About 3 months into AppWorks accelerator, I decided to drop Simple360, a startup that had some traction but was ultimately not something I’m a user of. I worked very hard and even wrote a 26-minute essay on my vision. Yet I decided…

Motivation Like most reasonable product-loving application developers, I too enjoy the process of building something and not configuring something. The last thing I wanted to touch was DevOps. For years, I had been the most loyal follower of The Heroku God. When I decided to switch to AWS Beanstalk, I spent…

Vision for a better future of work — Part 1: The Case on Idea Meritocracy September 23, 2017 It was 11:00 pm, my eyelids were getting heavy. As I was about to leave my desk and head to my warm and comfortable bed, my phone started to blink out message notifications from my friend LJ. Judging from the preview on my iPhone, he had sent…

當兵記：豆腐篇 Tofu is not only one of my favorite foods, but also something that I make every morning at the military. Yeah, talking about folding blankets. It deserves so much attention that I’ve decided to write a blog post about it! What happens every morning at 5:40am We aren’t supposed to even wake up that early…

A brief startup story and the future of personal finance banking — You can also watch a demo of Atomicard’s App here. It was just a little more than 4 months ago that I started Atomicard but it definitely felt like almost a year. With time and money constraints, I went 200% in with this project. 12-Hour Work Day Atomicard…

As I headed to the reception area of my residence to get a book I ordered on Amazon, I saw Francesco, one of our rotating securities. I started to chat with him in basic Italian while searching for my package. I tried very hard to squeeze all that few vocabularies…

Growing up, there’s always this notion that you’re either an introvert or an extrovert. Usually, though not expressed explicitly, there’s always some sort of negative connotation associated with being an introvert. I grew up being told I’m an introvert. When there was a family gathering, there were always these adults…