Andy Hsu
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The value of product design is in building consistent, conventional, branded experiences, yes. But the function of design also—and arguably more importantly—gives teams the ability to create clarity on what to develop. Quickly, efficiently, and with confidence.
Post | Feed | LinkedInWork conflicts are best resolved by setting aside the debate on choices and spending time understanding each other’s underlying principles behind those decisions
The Irony of I - Stories of Creating the Culture, Craft, and Community in a Digital Studio - Obsidian PublishOnce you pass over the material pursuit, defining your purpose is no longer a “fact-finding” mission. You will organically discover your purpose as a by-product of the experience of truly bonding with your work habitat
The Irony of I - Stories of Creating the Culture, Craft, and Community in a Digital Studio - Obsidian Publishone enduring element throughout your career is how you join hands with people with whom you work with.
The Irony of I - Stories of Creating the Culture, Craft, and Community in a Digital Studio - Obsidian Publishनेति नेति (Neti Neti) is a Sanskrit expression that means “neither this nor that”. It is an analytical meditation to help understand the nature of reality by understanding what is not real. Like we disregard the sensations within a dream as unreal, the sages of Upanishads discarded everything that was in a constant process of change as unreal. When you dig into your personality deeper, you find layers of perceptions, thoughts, emotions, drives, and memories. The sages found that none of this is permanent — moods, desires, and opinions change with time.
The Irony of I - Stories of Creating the Culture, Craft, and Community in a Digital Studio - Obsidian PublishIn their search for a constant, they defined what was left — the intense awareness beyond time and change in their practice of meditation — as the ultimate reality.
The Irony of I - Stories of Creating the Culture, Craft, and Community in a Digital Studio - Obsidian PublishTheir principle was neti, neti atman: “this is not the self, that is not the self”. When you dig into your own personality deeper, you find layers of perceptions, thoughts, emotions, drives, and memories. The sages found that none of these are permanent and ignored these attributes in their pursuit of true nature of the universe.
Well-Being - Neti Neti - Stories of Creating the Culture, Craft, and Community in a Digital Studio - Obsidian PublishIt just is or it isn’t.
Personal Takeaways from Dr. Kapil Gupta’s Book “Direct Truth” - Stories of Creating the Culture, Craft, and Community in a Digital Studio - Obsidian PublishHowever, once you innately discover what you “do not have a choice” about through investigation, desperation, understanding, and are sincerely devoted to that “what is”, you have started to seek the Truth. In that state, there is no want, there is no need, just a speckless clarity of the present moment.
Personal Takeaways from Dr. Kapil Gupta’s Book “Direct Truth” - Stories of Creating the Culture, Craft, and Community in a Digital Studio - Obsidian PublishThe greatest impact you will deliver in your life will come from a pursuit where you just know you do not have any other choice.
Well-Being - The Natural State of Mind - Stories of Creating the Culture, Craft, and Community in a Digital Studio - Obsidian PublishNo matter the reasons you want to associate yourself with your roots, it often comes down to the memories that you cherish the most.
A Longing for Belonging - Stories of Creating the Culture, Craft, and Community in a Digital Studio - Obsidian PublishRenovating a Space Shuttle in Space is Harder Than Building a New One on the Ground
Design for All - A Transformation from Group Thinking to Design Thinking - Stories of Creating the Culture, Craft, and Community in a Digital Studio - Obsidian PublishThe Detached Commitment
5 lessons from 5 years of building products - Stories of Creating the Culture, Craft, and Community in a Digital Studio - Obsidian PublishWhen there is an underlying implicit agreement in principle across teams to do what’s right for the user, you win half the battle in resolving conflicts, addressing dependencies, and pushing for progress.
Product - True North for Product Teams - Stories of Creating the Culture, Craft, and Community in a Digital Studio - Obsidian PublishHired as a resource, you are just that. Hired as a person, they value the whole of you.
A Litmus Test for Your Future Workplace - Stories of Creating the Culture, Craft, and Community in a Digital Studio - Obsidian Publish