Category: journal
Beyond recognizing white privilege
My last blog post, Tim Keller explains the systemic problem of white privilege, excerpting a commentary from the Q&A portion of March 2012 event, generated a record-breaking number of responses, mostly retweets. Now what? Acknowledging the existence of white privilege is a huge step, yet a baby step, 1st of a thousand, towards opening the…
The best Chinese hot sauce is called Laoganma
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@ journalWithout knowing the name, this hot sauce was elusive to find. I searched high and low all over the Internet. I had tasted it before. There are hot sauces spanning the whole range of that Scoville scale heat index. Most are just plain straight heat. Most are either plain liquid or whipped into a puree…
It’s personal, oh so personal
A leading influencer of our time, Seth Godin, can do it both, short-form blogging, long form articles, speeches, books. Knowing how to mix it up is just one more dimension of his success and influence. Yet he doesn’t go super short-form aka microblogging with twittering and facebooking. That’s to say you don’t have to use…
How an Introvert can build a platform
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@ journalI’ve already said it (and recommended it a handful of times in offline conversations), that Michael Hyatt‘s new book Platform is the best book about leveraging social media I’ve seen in 12+ years, and his team’s promotional efforts have put it on the bestsellers lists. And as I’ve recently launched a new podcast, Social Media…
A Year Later. Life after Father.
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@ journalHere in Rockville Maryland for a quick weekend visit to be with family, one year after my Dad’s death. Everyone seems to have made whatever adjustments to this new chapter of life. I used this new technology I just found this morning called Spreaker to capture a few thoughts — listen. I’m anticipating that we’re…
My Random Life: A Work In Progress
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@ journalI’m authoring a book about episodes in my life and thought I’d share the work in progress while it’s in progress. The idea of the book is to honestly share about (some of the) struggles in my life in a transparent and vulnerable way so that people, especially Asian Americans, can know that they’re not…
If I were half a billionaire
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Today’s humongous $540 million jackpot for the Mega Millions lottery could really mess with someone’s or a group of someones’ finances. The odds are slightly better that several people will split the winning rather than one solitary person; even though it’s statistically impossible to win, someone does. And what if I were to win the…
Freedom of speech, journalism, and artistic license
When public communications veer off the path of truth, and enters the domain of artistic expression, not only are lines blurred, because both journalism and art/ entertainment are forms of public communications, the confusion of fuzzy logic and the gullible naivite of the undiscerning casts a cloud of anxiety over the masses. This week the…
Anxiety and Christians don’t mix, usually
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A timely book arrived in the mail last week and I happen to have some time to read it all in one day. The book? Rhett Smith‘s The Anxious Christian: Can God Use Your Anxiety for Good? What I love about this book is how Rhett vulnerably and honestly reveals his own life story, how…
My Signature Themes from StrengthsFinder
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@ journalFound this old report of my StrengthFinders Top 5 Themes, one of the much more helpful personal assessment (aka personality test) for me. It’s the 1.0 version and I don’t think a 2.0 version is going to make much difference for my particular profile. What are yours? Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization…
How Charles Lee is like Jeremy Lin
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Last week was Jeremy Lin’s breakthru on the basketball court. This week is Charles Lee‘s breakthru on the bookstore charts as his new book launches today, Good Idea. Now What? How to Move Ideas to Execution! Keep an eye on this guy, he’s going places. I’m not predicting a New York Times best-seller just yet, but…
