Protect your identity, minimize noise, and reserve your time with your beloved ones — How many connections do you have on LinkedIn? Digital marketing guru Jeff Bullas mentioned that people have 1K connections on average. …

My valuable and expensive lesson learned — If you are reading this article, I am pretty sure you are as devastated as I was when I noticed my iPad was bent. Here are the last few photos I took of it.

No more sliver-lining your error, and move on with your day — Like many of you, I make small mistakes at work. Typo in an email? For sure. Hitting too fast the send button or accidentally addressing someone as “Mr.” instead of “Miss”? Happens from time to time, and I can give you all the other examples. But one thing I insist…

Recommended solutions by Apple Hotline and Genius from Apple Store. None of them works for me, but no harm in giving it a try. — Last week I updated my iPhone to the latest iOS 15.6, and suddenly the NFC function no longer works. …

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It’s a sign of bravery. — Amy Chua — Like many others, I hated my accent. Growing up in Hong Kong, I studied in a typical school where we used Chinese as the teaching language except for English class. …

It sparks joy, improves your memory, and brings a sense of achievement. — When was the last time you tried to memorize something in your work? Not a task, not a new concept, but introducing a new vocabulary and a sentence to express your inner voice. In a digital era like this, we are used to relying on Google to find out the…

New tools, mindset, and culture: You could be the change agent to bring all of them to your company — Being the change agent in your team could be scary at first. Yet once you witness the impact you brought to the team, it becomes an obsession — you will keep exploring new topics for the team to learn. I always remember working on back-end systems as a business analyst…

And this is why we need to be selective about how we want to spend our scarce energy and time — Where should we start? A month back I attended a wedding of my university friend, and I met some people I hadn’t talked to in two years. …

It should not be taboo — We are all human, and we will die one day. — Earlier in December, I did a mini surgery under general anesthesia. The surgery lasted less than an hour, and everything went well. Yet the moment I came back to consciousness, I burst into tears. The doctor and nurse were so worried and thought there was something wrong with the surgery…