Being Optimistic
What does it mean to be optimistic? My definition is the choice to focus on the positive aspects of a situation, both in-the-moment and the potential outcomes, without ignoring problematic areas. The latter can lead...
Thoughts
The COVID Accelerant?
As I'm writing this, the US has vaccinated around 40% of our overall population, and the Bay Area is doing even better at with many counties at 50% or more. With the beginning...
Predicting Preferences
Friday night. I had a cup of tea on the desk, flipped open the iPad, and was gearing to spend the 2–3 hours it takes me to author another post on this blog to...
Values to Make Decisions
Quick, what are your core values? How about the values of your discipline, your company, your industry? Your…family[1]? If you can actually answer these questions without stopping in your tracks and making the...
Asian. American?
It’s been really hard to absorb. Think about. Process. And write about, the experience of being an Asian American in the past year. Even before the COVID-related lockdowns began in the United States last...
COVID, A Year Later
As I'm writing this, it's been a year to the week that America shut down from the pandemic. The combination of restricting European travel, celebrities announcing their COVID susceptibility, and the...