Blog Posts
Deliberate Practice & Self-Reinvention, Open Sourced.
How to Enjoy Boring Tasks
How do you learn to enjoy boring tasks? Life is full of boredom and routine. Many times, these actions are meaningless or useless. Learning to enjoy them helps us avoid the game of waiting -- waiting for the next event to gives us excitement, for the next person to make us feel something, for the next task to make us happy.
Why I’m Open Sourcing My Life: Writing Online for Self-Reinvention
This website is about personal & professional self-reinvention that is thoughtful, open-sourced, and unconventional. In this essay, I'll break down what that means, why I decided to take on something like this, and how I plan on doing that.
Write of Passage Review: Why I Paid for the Lifetime Edition
Another reader question about David Perell’s Write of Passage course. Here's a brief review of the pros and cons of the course, and recommendations on how to make the most of it.
How to Prepare for Write of Passage: My Experience with David Perell’s Writing Course
Since taking David Perell's Write of Passage course in July 2020, I've gotten 4-5 questions on what it was like. So I got permission to share this email exchange I had with a friend to talk about just that.
Roxine’s Personal User Manual
This manual is focused around how I work and is a lightly edited copy of a Google Doc that’s saved in a shared drive for the entire company to read.
The Secrets of 21st Century Polymaths
How to see what no one else sees, think like no one else does, & solve problems only you can solve
CrossFit for Writing: The Magical Way to Get Writing Without an Idea
How to get clarity on an idea, draft an essay from scratch, & balance creativity with structure
Readwise 101: Get Notes & Highlights from Pocket, Instapaper, & Kindle into Evernote
This article is purely focused on Readwise’s ability to gather your notes and highlights into one place and send it to Evernote.
How to Make Terror-Free Career-Defining Decisions
5 key questions to help you make calm & collected decisions without getting overwhelmed -- even in the face of major life change
Why Asians Aren’t Drowning in Debt (But North Americans Are)
Uncommon Lessons & Stories on Wealth from My Filipino-Chinese Upbringing
Influencers: David Dobrik & The Power of the Modern Media Celebrity
David Dobrik is the perfect example of a modern-day influencer who built his brand without the help of traditional, big-media channels to build a colossal following.