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Yueh Han Huang

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  • I wonder how much happiness can be attained by giving up on our idea of what happiness should be.
    50 Things I Wonder - by Stephen Long - The Backwoods
  • I wonder if it’s easier to be content with a smaller sense of self.
    50 Things I Wonder - by Stephen Long - The Backwoods
  • I wonder how much we should be at peace with our own nature and how much we should fight it. I wonder what the optimal ratio is of acceptance to striving.
    50 Things I Wonder - by Stephen Long - The Backwoods
  • I wonder if how you feel about Mondays is just how you feel about life.
    50 Things I Wonder - by Stephen Long - The Backwoods
  • Like that unfortunate hairstyle captured in your high school yearbook, this is me, at this moment in time: the words I wanted to say, the images I wanted to share.
    Creating again
  • I want devices and interfaces that wear in (not out) and adapt to my usage patterns over time, like a good leather shoe that becomes more comfortable the more you wear it.
    I want, pt. 2
  • I want better ways to input text than QWERTY keyboards. I want better ways to navigate interfaces than teeny tiny cursors aiming at teeny tiny click areas.
    I want, pt. 2
  • Humans seem to use many different heuristics to estimate how much social value another person can provide. Physical attractiveness and fitness are obvious factors. Others include a sense of humor, empathy and kindness, wealth, ability to pay close attention to others, calmness, career success, ability to host events, having unusual life experiences or skills, being well-connected, knowing how to cook, knowing how to be silly, and owning a car.
    Loneliness epidemic or efficient markets? - by ftlsid
  • Of course crushes are more than that—they’re about nostalgia and magic and futures we’ll never access—but I think they’re also indicative of a desire to place happiness outside of ourselves.
    how to avoid half-heartedness - by Ava - bookbear express
  • My answer is that if you tolerate too much half-heartedness, it’s probably because you’re half-hearted. As in: anxious and ambivalent, looking for reassurance. As in: bored, along for the ride, not really sure about your own feelings and opinions. As in: external locus of control vs internal locus of control. You probably don’t have anything in your life that really tethers you to yourself—you don’t have conviction about what you love, so you’re hoping that someone else will provide you that certainty.
    how to avoid half-heartedness - by Ava - bookbear express
  • in the future, everyone’s lives can be better than anyone’s life is now
    The Intelligence Age
  • ^ From First Impressions of Paris, whenever I have a particular destination in mind, I oftentimes get off two stops before or after my intended destination intentionally. This way, I can explore more random places along the way. Some of my most cherished memories from my travels have been discovered through this "off-by-two-stops" method.
    First Impressions of Berlin | Cheng-Wei Hu
  • SF wants you to be interesting, weird, ambitious – anything other than to be simply content because the price of contentment in this city makes no sense.
    Yitong Zhang
  • what are you going to regret in a year?
    questions - Alexey Guzey
  • are failure and/or success conditions clear?
    questions - Alexey Guzey
  • when was the last time you did something you’ve never done before?
    questions - Alexey Guzey
  • why not just stare at it for 10 minutes?
    questions - Alexey Guzey
  • why is it easier to do something for the other person than to do the exact same thing for yourself?
    questions - Alexey Guzey
  • what are you confused about?
    questions - Alexey Guzey
  • what’s slowing you down the most?
    questions - Alexey Guzey
  • why not take a pen and a piece of paper, go offline for 1 hour and resolve one of them?
    questions - Alexey Guzey
  • The second change is the TikTok-ization I noted above: my new vertical axis is user-generated content, by which I mean content across the network, versus network-generated content, by which I mean content from the people you choose to follow.
    Threads and the Social/Communications Map – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
  • This reminds me of an old minimap prototype I made. Inspired by games where you always have a bird's eye view of the surrounding environment. Why not have a similar heads up display for navigating a page?
    Invisible Details of Interaction Design
  • Interestingly enough, the menu subtly fades out. On closer inspection, the selected item briefly blinks the accent color (pink) to provide assurance that the element was successfully selected. I can only assume that the menu fading out makes this feel more graceful and intentional than abruptly disappearing after the blink:
    Invisible Details of Interaction Design
  • Interaction design is an artform to make experiences that fluidly respond to human intent.
    Invisible Details of Interaction Design
  • A list of past projects that I loved and want to return to. Stuff I’m proud of. (How might I do more of that?) A list of the work and projects that inspire me. A resume of failures and what I learned from each of them. A list of the operating principles and habits of leaders I’ve loved working for in the past, plus my own operating principles. A list of the things I like to help people learn.
    I left my job — Beez | Design & education
  • I got to build things that meant a lot to my teams simply by nature of how small the companies were and how much they had yet to build—that, and a lot of the work I did early on in my career was adventuresome and experimental. All of that felt super cool.
    I left my job — Beez | Design & education
  • Our mission is at the heart of how we make product decisions. We are here to develop the world’s best education and make it universally available.
    How Duolingo builds product - by Lenny Rachitsky
  • This seems counterintuitive, or at least it was to me—how do the people who get the most done, and do it best, move the slowest? Answer: because slowness is a byproduct of care and intention.
    on slowness, taste, and living well - by Isabel - Mind Mine
  • If one tab becomes unresponsive, then you can close the unresponsive tab and move on while keeping other tabs alive. If all tabs are running on one process, when one tab becomes unresponsive, all the tabs are unresponsive. That’s sad.
    Inside look at modern web browser (part 1) - Chrome Developers
  • A process can ask the Operating System to spin up another process to run different tasks. When this happens, different parts of the memory are allocated for the new process. If two processes need to talk, they can do so by using Inter Process Communication (IPC).
    Inside look at modern web browser (part 1) - Chrome Developers
  • Shaping reviews. Review the problem, target customer, scope, outline of a solution, expected timeline, dependencies, key metrics (with plausible targets). Useful to do early to align on product direction and ensure alignment with overall strategy.
    Operating Well: What I Learned at Stripe - Every
  • When something isn’t getting done, it’s because the person a) doesn’t have the time b) doesn’t have the skill or c) has some sort of psychological block.
    Operating Well: What I Learned at Stripe - Every
  • What could we cut, even if it’s painful?
    Operating Well: What I Learned at Stripe - Every
  • Can we re-frame this in terms of the customer’s problem? What’s the soonest we could get this done? What would you need to get this done tomorrow instead of next week? What would we need to do to get twice as many customers? Ten times as many customers? How does this relate to our goal? Is this the most important thing we can do for our goal?
    Operating Well: What I Learned at Stripe - Every
  • It’s dynamic, adaptive, stressful, and fun.
    Operating Well: What I Learned at Stripe - Every
  • What’s most important? What do we really need to get right?
    Operating Well: What I Learned at Stripe - Every
  • This produces a compounding effect, which means that CURR is much harder to move, but when it does, it will have a greater impact.
    How Duolingo reignited user growth - by Jorge Mazal
  • In both of these situations, we had borrowed successful features from other products, but the wrong way. We had failed to account for how a change in context can impact the success of a feature. I came away from these attempts realizing that I needed a better understanding of how to borrow ideas from other products intelligently. Now when looking to adopt a feature, I ask myself: Why is this feature working in that product? Why might this feature succeed or fail in our context, i.e. will it translate well? What adaptations are necessary to make this feature succeed in our context?
    How Duolingo reignited user growth - by Jorge Mazal
  • It took our team a couple of months of work to add the counter. With the release of the update, I expectantly waited for an unmitigated success. Depressingly, the result of all that effort was completely neutral. No change to our retention. No increase in DAU. We hardly got any user feedback at all. I was deflated. The greatest effect the initiative had was on our team. After the results came out, we quickly fell into dissension. Some wanted to continue iterating on the idea, while others wanted to pivot. The team almost immediately (and dramatically) disbanded, and the idea was abandoned. It …
    How Duolingo reignited user growth - by Jorge Mazal
  • Could we refine our focus by optimizing metrics that drive DAU indirectly? In other words, how could we break up the DAU monolith into smaller, more meaningful (and hopefully, easier to optimize) segments?
    Meaningful metrics: How data sharpened the focus of product teams
  • The model above classifies users into 7 mutually-exclusive user states:
    Meaningful metrics: How data sharpened the focus of product teams
  • “I was like, ‘Holy shit. This is what I’m going to do.’ There’s nothing else that has more leverage to use my skill set than to help people to use their computer beyond just a typewriter.”
    Notion CEO Ivan Zhao: Augmenting Human Intellect | Sequoia Capital US/Europe
  • Zhao says they spent 18 hours a day at their laptops, not bothering to dress, clean or cook. “We were just, code, code, code,” Zhao remembers. “Then, ‘Hey, let’s go out for food.’ Then, we go eat, go back to work, and do it again.
    Notion CEO Ivan Zhao: Augmenting Human Intellect | Sequoia Capital US/Europe
  • How to execute on a learning project persistently
    How I Build Learning Projects — Part I | by Robert Chang | Medium
  • Nevertheless, over the years, I have designed a system to make my self-directed learning easier and more effective
    How I Build Learning Projects — Part I | by Robert Chang | Medium
  • It has never been easier to interact, share, and edit content for the electronic screen medium. Today we have smartphones where we can easily download applications that allow us to edit pictures we take and add text or superimpose drawings and emojis. With a simple tap we can also share them with our friends. This has not always been the case, as in the past the bandwidth of communication relied on our paper and pen technologies, which made it considerably harder to copy and share. This medium has opened up new ways of communication that do not rely exclusively on the spoken or written word.
    Visual Language and the Development of Convention | Blog
  • Don’t talk about any topic that you could discuss in the open, among your team desks or in the cafe. If it’s safe enough to be overheard — it’s not the right content for a 1:1. Email it, send it in Slack, discuss among the desks, say it at a meeting, anything but a 1:1. Commit to saying one rather awkward thing every 1:1, and get the other person to commit too. Agreeing in advance and getting permission makes it feel way more safe. Committing creates peer pressure to be real. It works.
    The Art of the Awkward 1:1. You probably do a lot of one-on-one… | by Mark Rabkin | Medium
  • As Aristotle articulates, freedom used to mean the “cultivated ability to exercise self-governance, to limit ourselves in accordance with our nature and the natural world.”
    commitments - by Molly Mielke - Mind Mud
  • The midwit is trying to squeeze every last drop of lemon juice from their lemons instead of planting more lemons like the master.
    Meme analysis anthology: understand enlightenment by understanding the midwit