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A complete collection of all articles, organized chronologically for easy browsing and discovery.

Evergreen Notes
Evergreen Notes
Atomic Essays
Atomic Essays
Mindset
Mindset
Post-Layoff Diary
Post-Layoff Diary
Design
Design
Notetaking
Notetaking
Personal
Personal
Career
Career
2025 Thoughts
✦ February

All Kyoto Theme Features

Latest updates on Feb, 2025
04 Feb
2025 Thoughts
✦ January

Proper footnote formatting and usage

Footnotes Footnotes serve as essential tools in academic and professional writing, providing valuable supplementary information without disrupting the main text.
07 Jan
2024 Thoughts
✦ December

Why your personal website should be minimal

Simple design speaks volumes. A minimal website isn't about less, but about making room for what truly matters—your story and work.
26 Dec
2024 Thoughts
✦ November

Latest updates from a hypothetical multi-talented creator

🎵 Latest Updates from Studio & Beyond - November 2023 New Single: "Digital Sunset" My latest electronic-folk fusion track
13 Nov
2024 Thoughts
✦ March

Fall in love with the process over outcomes

If you are like me and many other creatives, you have many interests and want to do many things. You’
15 Mar
2024 Thoughts
✦ March

Being a generalist helps you find the right career choice

Being a self-taught designer has been something that made me unconfident. I hated how I never specialized in anything in
13 Mar
2024 Thoughts
✦ March

STAR Interview Method for Product Designers

STAR interview method is a powerful tool that product designers can use to showcase skills during job interviews.
11 Mar
2024 Thoughts
✦ March

You can improve anything with 30 min a day for 30 days

🌱 The Seinfeld strategy — Don’t break the chain encourages us to use a big calendar that has a whole year
08 Mar
2024 Thoughts
✦ March

iA Presenter is impressive

The execution of iA Presenter is fantastic! I believe they will go much further soon.
05 Mar
2024 Thoughts
✦ March

The Power of Habit

The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive.
02 Mar
2024 Thoughts
✦ March

Systems vs Goals

I’m always failed at exercising regularly. It usually starts with passion, the first week is awesome and motivated. But the next week, it becomes less and less.
01 Mar
2024 Thoughts
✦ February

The day I become a better designer

The day I become a better design is the day I start writing.
29 Feb
2024 Thoughts
✦ February

Generalist vs Specialist

When you hire a person to solve a problem. Do you want to hire a person who knows many things or a person who great dept in one thing?
27 Feb
2024 Thoughts
✦ February

I'm beginning to write again

Writing After finishing a ton of books this month, I'm beginning to write again. That's all
23 Feb
2024 Thoughts
✦ February

Getting Real

From Basecamp creator, a good book which highlights the traditional rubbish and points out how to overcome them based on their experience when it comes to build a web application.
18 Feb
2024 Thoughts
✦ February

Design Tips, Visually

17 Feb
2024 Thoughts
✦ February

Creative Confidence

Principles and strategies that will allow us to tap into our creative potential in our work lives, and in our personal lives.
15 Feb
2024 Thoughts
✦ February

It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be

This uplifting and humorous little book provides a unique insight into the world of advertising and is a quirky compilation of quotes, facts, pictures, wit and wisdom
14 Feb
2024 Thoughts
✦ February

Creativity, Inc

From Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar, comes an incisive book about creativity in business. He reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable.
12 Feb
2024 Thoughts
✦ January

Designing for Emotion

If you are interested why people talk about certain things more than about others this book can explain it perfectly.
29 Jan
2024 Thoughts
✦ January

How to get ideas

A fun, accessible, and practical guide that takes the mystery and confusion out of developing new ideas.
28 Jan
2024 Thoughts
✦ January

Steal like an artist

10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative. You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself.
02 Jan
2024 Thoughts
✦ January

We've changed names

London flipped from sweltering summer back to drizzling grey yesterday. Autumn was overdue. Summer was a little too manic for
01 Jan
2023 Thoughts
✦ December

Launch Kyoto Theme

Kyoto is a minimal yet over-engineered Ghost theme designed to showcase your portfolio and writings. It is tailor-made for designers,
28 Dec
2023 Thoughts
✦ November

Cool Loaders SwiftUI

Coded all the cool loaders figma design in SwiftUI. Available to download from Github.
10 Nov
2023 Thoughts
✦ November

Having everything thrown out of whack is pretty useful

The last six months have felt like a disorientating blur. While bouncing between overseas trips, writing conference talks, organising events,
01 Nov
2023 Thoughts
✦ November

It's a weird week

It's a weird week. Twitter is (possibly) entering a slow death march and much of my community is
01 Nov
2023 Thoughts
✦ October

1st Youtbe Live

I did first youtube live for discord. I did before directly on discord but this time I tried youtube. It&
27 Oct
2023 Thoughts
✦ October

Imposter syndrome is real

It happens to many people. Many people are facing it too.
15 Oct
2023 Thoughts
✦ October

Build What You Love, Live Your Dream

Wrote an article about two years journey of creative fulfillment after quitting my 9-5 job
05 Oct
2023 Thoughts
✦ September

Announced Coolshapes

Cool abstract shapes for visual design.
22 Sep
2023 Thoughts
✦ September

Grainy Gradients

Working on new Figma plugin to generate cool grainy gradients in Figma using Metavatar logic.
01 Sep
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