While teaching product management certificate, I met lots of bright students looking to transition into PM career and got the following question from a lot of them. How to navigate through the catch-22 during the career transition, e.g., engineer->PM, IC->manager (that’s right, this is a career tran...

Want to grow your career and leadership capability? Cognitive Bias is a crucial concept you should deeply understand.

What’s Cognitive Bias?

Click the “play” button below and watch a funny TikTok short video first and then answer a surprising question from me below. 

Question: Why do you find thi...

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Skiing black diamond (advanced) is not a big deal for a lot of people. For me, although it’s not the most challenging thing I have done, it is definitely not a piece of cake. Today I eventually got the time and courage to do the black diamond runs at Crystal Mountain....

After “hibernating” in his man cave with computers and game consoles the entire winter, Joe decided to bulk up and get his beach body before the summer arrives. He hired a personal trainer Michael. Joe showed up every training session without missing a single one. Michael is such an empathetic and h...

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The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.

– Dean Smith

Knowing the origin of leadership gives you deep understanding of it and helps you be more effective in developing leadership in yourself.

For a while, I’ve been chewing o...

Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.

– Nelson Mandela

Some basic tools for project management are simple yet effective. “Milestone” is one of those must-haves in your tool box, when you manage complex projects. To effectively use “milestone” as a tool, it’s importa...

After running half-marathons for a few years, I eventually made up my mind to invest a significant chunk of time in training and running a full marathon. During those long running sessions accompanied by 180 BPM music, lots of things went through my head and I ended up learning the following connect...

From a trivial personal story of mine, I did a little bit reflection and connected the following random dots:

• Value based pricing
• The curse of knowledge
• Know your worth

The Story

Recently, I did a little DYI upgrade to my road bike rear cassette from 105 component to Ultegra component CS-R8...

Have you ever wondered why people from the same geographic region all have the same dialect or accent?

Turns out human brain is wired to be efficient at learning and copying behaviors from others around them, often times unconsciously. When the learned behavior is a particular way of pronouncing wo...

Have you ever found yourself feeling bad walking away from an ineffective conversation, especially a high stake one? Although carrying an effective conversation requires many skills that you need to develop and refine over years, there are some low hanging fruit yet high ROI things you can do to mak...