Mar 26, 2023 — Mindset 🌱 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
Mar 2, 2023 — Parenting 🌱 Children who are later talkers 🌱 Feynman was an American theoretical physicist born in New York City. He’s a famous physicist, but many people know
Mar 2, 2023 — People 🌱 Feynman Richard Feynman was an American theoretical physicist born in 1918 in New York City. Feynman was a very late talker—
Mar 1, 2023 — Mindset 🌱 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’
Feb 28, 2023 — Mindset 🌱 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
Feb 16, 2023 — Writing 🌱 Atomic essays Have you heard of the term "atomic essay" coined by the Ship-30-by-30 creators? It's a fascinating concept that I absolutely
Feb 14, 2023 — Career 📗 And I got an offer 🎉 Oh Yeah. I got an offer. After almost 3 months of unemployment and many rejections, I got an offer. I
Feb 8, 2023 — Career 📗 A company I'm interviewing at has conducted a layoff Do you believe that? Yeah, it's the truth. Anything can happen, mah. I was in the middle of an interview
Jan 13, 2023 — User Research 🌱 Ask for quick sharing right after every user interview Doing this will help you synthesize user research 2x faster.
Jan 12, 2023 — Design 🌱 📗 Whiteboard challenge Step-by-Step & Tips Some companies will have a whiteboard design challenge. I will have one session next week. It will be a case
Jan 8, 2023 — Code 🌱 Building a product isn't about whether it can be built But about if people need it. Learning to code might be wise. I think everyone should learn to code nowadays.
Jan 6, 2023 — Tool 🌱 Moving my website to Ghost I’m building an entirely new website with Ghost. My goal is ambitious — to make it my primary website. It
Jan 4, 2023 — Post-Layoff Diary 📗 Interviewing & Rejection Yesterday I had only one interview with a designer from a big crypto company. The interviewer is very nice, kind,
Jan 4, 2023 — Health 🌱 Powerful life hacks for career, health, and relationship Sahil Bloom is my greatest resource for learning. His newsletter and Twitter content always give me new and powerful lessons.
Dec 21, 2022 — Letter from Audience 📨 Letter from Audience #01 💌Hi Trong, I am Yurong, a product designer based in Singapore. I chanced upon your article on LinkedIn and when
Dec 19, 2022 — Post-Layoff Diary 📗 Chat with a recruiter from a 3D AI Startup Today I will have two chats with HR. I did one this morning with E. Their product is innovative. Building
Dec 18, 2022 — Post-Layoff Diary 📗 An ex-colleague asked to refer me to a company Today is Sunday. There’s no more reply from companies. But I have some chat next week. Around 4 chats
Dec 16, 2022 — Post-Layoff Diary 📗 One chat with HR and one more invite to chatting Today is Friday, and there is no job that is in the interview yet. Most of the meetings are with
Dec 15, 2022 — Post-Layoff Diary 📗 Getting some replies from companies that I applied Today I got some replies from some places that I applied: Viki Rakuten, and Coinhako. I also applied to some
Dec 14, 2022 — Post-Layoff Diary 📗 The first official day to look for a job Today is Wednesday. The first official day for me to look for a job. Seems like not many companies are
Dec 13, 2022 — Notetaking 🌱 Folders kill creativity The folder structure defines specific content belonging to one category. The content is stored in the same place, but they
Dec 9, 2022 — Post-Layoff Diary 📗 Much support from friends and LinkedIn people Keith, my ex-head of design, sent me a message yesterday. He sent me a Job description from Google and a
Dec 9, 2022 — Personal 🌱 Post Layoff Diary Sharing my process of looking for new jobs after the layoff.