「生活有什麼值得期待？」是最近在想的事情。對於這項進行第3年的工作，感到厭倦不已，所以11月所有活動完結就是我最期待的事。

About Marketing

Canvas Strategy
- Come up with ideas to hand over to your boss
- Find people, thinker, up-and-comers to introduce to each other. Cross wires to create new sparks
- Find what nobody else want to do and do it
- Find inefficiencies and waste and redundancies. Identify leaks and patches to free up resources for new areas

The law of categoryIf you can’t the first in a category, set up a new category you can be first in.

To develop new materials:What I’d do first is figure out what pisses you off. So people’s limitation piss you off, the airport bathrooms piss you off? What pisses you off? Comedy is, for most part, just an obsession with injustice. (By Whitney Cummings)

A question Cal Fussman suggests asking people more often“What are some of the choices you’ve made that made you who you are?”

About Passion & Career

• The purpose of life is a life of purpose (Stanley McChrystal)
• Follow your passion is terrible advice. I think it misconstrues the nature of finding a satisfying career and satisfying job, where the biggest predictor of job satisfaction is mentally engaging work. It’s the nature of the job itself. It’s whether the job provides a lot of variety, gives you good feedback, allows you to exercise autonomy, contributes to the wider world. (By Will MacAskill)
• A lot of people say, ‘Find you passion.’ I think passion comes from a combination of being open and curious, and of really going all-in when you find something that you’re interested in.’ (By Sam Kass)
• What you choose to work on, and who you choose to work with, are far more important than how hard you work. (By Naval Ravikant)
• The really efficient labourer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin for relaxation to his day. He is only earnest to secure the kernels of time and does not exaggerate the value of the husk. (Maria Popova say Thoreau)
• If you had $100 million, what would you build that would have no value to others in copying?
• The job I was going to do hadn’t even been invented yet…The interesting jobs are the ones that you make up.
• Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative and experiences.

About Learning & Development

• Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.
• There are plenty of countries on Earth where there are people who are willing to be obedient and word harder for less money than us. So we cannot out-obedience the competition. Therefore, we have out-lead or out-solve the other people (By Seth Godin)
• You make yourself rare by combining two or more “pretty good” until no one else has your mix. (By Scott Adams)
• Specialization is for insects
  I was told my whole career: You have to specialize, specialize. I ‘specialized’ in pursuing the things that interested me. I talked a lot about action sports, but then I also talked about fashion, break dancing and all kind of different cultural stuff. I’ve made TV shows, shot commercials, done ad campaigns, created startup and made the first iPhone app that shared images to social network. I historically would have been called a dilettante, but to be able to touch all of these things is to find out that they ultimately inform one another. (By Chase Jarvis)
• For most writers who didn’t start off as journalists, writing is hard and continues to be hard. What makes it easier? Knowing that many of the “greats” are going through the same thing. It’s reassuring to know that someone at the top of their game — who has seemingly beaten all of the odds-stills has the daily struggle.
• “But I’m making so much money,” or “But I’m making good money” is a warning sign that you’re probably not on the right track or, at least, that you shouldn’t stay there for long. (By B.J. Novak)

About Trial and Error

• Give vulnerability a shot. Give discomfort its due. Because I Think he or she who is willing to be the most uncomfortable is not only the bravest but rises the fastest. (By Brene Brown)
• “You’ve got to be able to look at your failures to know that there’s a key to success in every failure. If you look through the ashes long enough, you’ll find something. (By Robert Rodriguez)
• 1000 true fans (by Kevin Kelly)
  If I had 1000 true fans, then not only would I be able to live doing the things I wanted, but I would be able to turn that into 2000, 5000, 10000.

Life Advice

• Are you playing offense versus defense?
• Diversification works in almost every area of your life to reduce your stress. I am not going to worry about losing one friend if I have a hundred, but if I have two friends, I am really going to be worried. I am not going to worry about losing my job because my one boss is going to fire me, because I have thousands of bosses at newspaper everywhere. (By Scott Adams)
• Think about how old you are right now and think about being a 10-year-old version of yourself. Then think, “What would I probably tell myself as an older version of yourself?” (By Shay Carl)
• “The more you know what you really want and where you’re really going, the more what everybody else is doing starts to diminish. The moments when your own path is at its most ambiguous, that’s when the voices of others, the distracting chaos in which we live, the social media static start to loom large and become very threatening” (By Alain De Botton)
• So the best advice I learned by mistake, and that is: Be willing to fail or succeed on who you really are. Don’t ever try to be anything else. What you are is good enough for whatever it is you’re doing. (By Glenn Beck)
• “Even if I didn’t know what to do, I just had to begin. For a lot of people, that’s the part that keeps theme back the most. They think, ‘Well, I don’t have an idea, so I can’t start.’ I know you’ll only get the idea once you start. It’s this totally reverse thing. You have to act first before inspiration will hit. You don’t wait for inspiration and then act, or you’re never going to act, because you’re never going to have the inspiration, not consistently.
• “Enjoy it.”
  — the best answer I’ve heard to what I always ask close friends: “What should I do with my life?”

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一場武漢肺炎，揭露了中國如何「買起」全世界，如何向世界輸出影響力，而各國又是多麼倚靠中國。 當利益鏈斷了，是不是應該趁機重新審視，發展內需，分散投資？

如果你遇見17歲的自己，只能說一句話，你會說什麼？
「要享受只有一次的人生，盡情煩惱」

1. Defining freedom in different ways (reducing expectations, increasing sources of income so no one source controls you).

2. This is now the time to do it. It’s going to be too late tomorrow. And it was too early yesterday.

過了三十而立的年紀，但還是沒有明確的目標。自從搬了出去，結了婚，生活就好像停滯不前，沒有什麼achievement，彷彿只是兼顧每天的生活已經用盡了大部分氣力。或者是缺少了做一些生活必須的事情以外的行動力，例如舉辦Meetup的活動、教廣東話、學SEO。

然後到了要離開的時候。因為這個月也很忙碌，其實沒有太多覺得捨不得的時候。但直到這個星期和日本的客人說我要離職的時候，說到很多窩心的回應，就突然覺得原來在這裡走了很遠的路，認識了很多人。

然後，快要告別第四份工作了。我想每份工作也有它的特別和難忘之處，捨不得在這裡和日本客人建立的關係，即使有時候覺得他們很麻煩，不想聽他們的電話，但其實他們也是好人。

有時候，你會不問原由地相信一個想法，好像考試取得好成績才有出路(其實只為了得到母親的認同)，好像女生要穿裙子和留長頭髮。又或者是中五那年考完會考，不知道是什麼時候被灌輸了會考後有太多空閒的時間，如果找不到暑期工就代表失敗，是一個廢人。但是問有多少公司會請一個沒有工作經驗的中五學生工作。

親愛的，怎麼了？究竟這9個月發生過什麼事？你經歷了什麼，達成了什麼？為什麼你都不寫東西了？為什麼時間彷彿停止，你的人生就和一年前那樣停滯不前。

James Altucher is one of few author/blogger that I like and follow. How can he write something so inspiring in so simple wording. The following is the quote from his blog that I would like to remember and apply.

1. About Happiness

Part of happiness is these two things:
- Possibility
- Growth

"Possibility" is doing things you never did before but you feel are "possible."
The mystery. It's why humans, above all other species can adapt to and seek out new environments. It makes us happy.

"Growth" is a sense that you are improving in things. You don't have to improve in ONE thing only. I used to think I'd go to college, find my ONE thing and then keep improving in it.

Instead, I had to find many things. And I still do. Combining the possible with growth is part of what makes me happy each day.

Find something you haven't done before and improve everyday to be happy.

2. About Passion

Try things so you can find the clues. Then the clues will lead you to your talents.
A little child doesn’t ask, “What’s my purpose?”
That would be an idiot question. A little child does what he or she loves. And does them obsessively. That’s how talent becomes skill.

If you love something but don’t have enough talent, find new ways to measure success in what you love.

Meaning and passion in life find me. THEY seek me out.

Instead of me trying to chase it, trying to intellectualize it. Trying to force it. Trying to “figure it out”.

5-6 years ago, when I studied in university and then started my first full time job, "What is the job I would like to work in" was the top question I asked myself all the time as people said  "Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life" and I was looking forward to this life. Now, I don't force myself to find my passion but just try to different new experience.

3. About Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs get rid of risk so they can have more control over their future.

But the key is not to fail. The key is to realize something is going to not work out very quickly, learn what you can, and then move on.

The ones who succeed. They have the arrogance to think they can just simply sit down and do it. Despite not having the skills. Despite being total amateurs. They simply sit down and DO IT.

He said this is key to becoming a good storyteller. Look at your product. And figure out how it's going to take someone from their life today to a better life tomorrow.

4. About Improvement

Focus is not about doing one thing. It's about doing many things that connect and combine in ways nobody ever thought of before.

Focus is about connecting the dots so that one vision emerges.

It makes me think of the occupation called "Slash" that people work on different fields but  all connect  to one theme. I want to have this kind of lives.

You have to love being incompetent in order to be competent.

A) Identify one thing you love that is really hard for you.
B) Do it
C) Repeat B a lot.

Competence simply means I am improving at something. Maybe being a better writer. Or businessperson. Or friend. Or idea person. Or parent. Or whatever.

5. About Going to College

James has been saying many times that don't send your kids to college and he can't find the value of studying in college. But when his daughter went to college, he wrote the following that makes me feel his love to daughter.

Maybe the thing about college is that a child is not yet ready to be an adult.

It's the last time they will ever hang out with people their own age. My closest friends are not my age. In college though, they were.

It's scary to be an adult. To survive. It's a jungle. College is still a walled safe city for kids just like you.

I would pay a lot to be a child again. To not make the mistakes of adulthood. To not have those fears.

6. About Learning

Micro-skills.

Any hard skill that is worth learning, is not ONE skill but many micro-skills that are independent of each other and have to be mastered individually in order to achieve true excellence.

I have been learning guitar for almost one year but still can't play a song smoothly. So maybe I need to break it down to different micro-skills to master it.

Every day there’s a new question. What can I possibly do to justify why I am alive? Every day a new answer to explore. Is this it?

 很喜歡劉同駕馭文字的能力。

 2018年，願你比2017年進步、堅強地成長。

好像發生了很多事，好像不停重覆做著那幾件事。
很快地已經在新公司工作了3個月，原本覺得這份工作還不錯，應該可以繼續做下去，直至老闆的老婆開始在這裡工作，然後以前我討厭的東西又出現了，可能是上天叫我面對這個問題，不可以逃避。

原來短短一年間，發生了很多事，積聚了很多不滿。難忘不是工作的內容，而是那裡的人事。難忘第一天上班帶著戰戰競競的心情去九龍灣office，聽HR的簡介和在合約上簽名，然後去銅鑼灣，一踏入office那一刻，也許我身體的某部分已經告訴我我不適合那裡。

媒體總是很喜歡用上某人年紀輕輕就已經擁有自己的公司、年薪多少，或者是某人放棄大好前途而去外地做義工或者追夢。這個年代，每天也看著差不多的標題和內容的文章，覺得膩了。

被討厭的勇氣的第二部以教育為題，同樣以年輕人和哲學家的對話討論阿德勒的學說。

我很需要被討厭的勇氣，那種貫徹自己的意願，不加入他們的圈子，不強迫自己因為遷就他人，而勉強自己的勇氣。

70年前逝世的阿德勒提出的說法對現世依然充滿啟發。

1997年發生了很多事，香港回歸中國，自此在這個彈丸之地出現翻天覆地的改變。五月天也是3月29年成立，他們的歌陪著我們走過人生的跌蕩。20年前，還有《我們的勇氣 未滿都市》。

覺得現在的找工作和工作的方式是錯的，因為當你決定是否要在這間公司工作的時候，知道的資訊太少了。很多事情都要經歷過才明白，所以才有試用期嗎？為什麼我在試用期時沒有辭職？應該是還期望在往後的日子，能發掘這份工作的樂趣吧。

很想不顧後果地逃避。