Happiness On Happiness and Hedonic Adaptation Hey! After a bit of a hiatus, I’m getting back to writing and wanted to talk a bit about this idea of hedonic adaptation, inspired by this brilliant Wait But Why post. It’s a Friday night at my house in West Seattle where I’m relaxing after a
Productivity Organizing My Life with Notion For the past few weeks, I’ve tried to organize my life in Notion, and in this post, I’ll share how I’m using it so far, what I’ve learned, and how I hope to use it going forward to live a more productive life 🤓
Life Thoughts While Recovering from Surgery Given my goal of sharing more of my day-to-day thinking, recovering from wisdom teeth removal seems like a good time to write another post.
Life Showing My Work In this post, I’ll reflect on what’s going on across a few areas of my life, setting up to establish some goals I’ll be working toward over the next… period of time in which I stay motivated to pursue goals and write about them online 😅
Oculus Quest Getting Started Multitasking on Oculus Quest Virtual and augmented reality will transform the way people get things done in the future. Oculus Quest recently introduced multitasking as an experimental feature, taking a step toward this new way to accomplish things in VR. Here are a few best practices I’ve discovered throughout its development.
Getting a job in tech I've recently been coaching one of my best friends to prepare for an interview at a tech company. Seeing my friends succeed in their careers is one of my favorite things, so I find myself thinking a lot about growth-oriented mindset, telling great stories, and demonstrating technical depth. Here are
Getting back to health I recently set a goal to be in perfect physical, mental, and emotional health. It's a somewhat unrealistic target to set, but I think part of the value of goals is to shift your thinking into imagining what's possible. So here I am. One way I'm investing in my physical
On the value of a morning routine At 6:30am, my internal alarm clock goes off. I open my eyes, and roll over to look at the clock on my nightstand. 6:30am. Every time. It's a neat physiological trick. I roll over and go back to sleep. At 7:20, I wake up on my own
Being Productive in VR As a product manager on the Oculus VR team, my role focuses on building system capabilities that enable people to be productive in Oculus Home. It's an exciting area because I believe that virtual, augmented, and mixed reality are going to fundamentally transform the way people get things done, and
Death & Taxes This is the second year in which I feel like the IRS should take me out to dinner first after what it just did to my bank account. The incredibly first world problem to be thankful for is that I earn an income that's much higher than my tax bill.
New Domain, New Me When I was in grade school, ronforbes.com was for sale, probably for around $80 per year, which I thought was outrageous at the time. Around college, it came to be owned by Ron Forbes Construction, a company in Alberta, Canada. I was okay with that at the time and
