Tag: motivated

What does it mean to be an empowered team? An empowered team owns a well-defined slice of product, whatever that may be in the context of their wider organization, and is ultimately responsible for its success or failure. They have the final say over what they create and how they create...

Over the past 7 years, I’ve programmed almost every day which helped me work at Google, Qualcomm, a startup in San Francisco, launch 5 of my own apps and websites, and now start my own company. Here’s a screenshot of my GitHub history this past year (green means I progr...

James Clear once said, “If successful and unsuccessful people share the same goals, then the goal cannot be what differentiates the winners from the losers.” So, what does? According to one study, there are 12 common characteristics that define a motivated person: T...

Imagine this: You have a big dream or a project you’re passionate about. You start with a burst of enthusiasm, but as time goes by, that initial motivation dwindles. We’ve all been there. Staying motivated is a challenge we all face at some point in our lives. Whether it&...

Today, I rose and traveled from Maryland to Washington, D.C., to bear witness to a racially motivated insurrection. This was the coldest day I had experienced since I was a 3rd-year law student at the University of Southern California, and my parents still lived in Minnesota. The heavens had opened ...

Dr. King was born the same year as Anne Frank. Both of them could still be alive today, but both of their lives were cut short by the evil blade of white supremacy (for comparison, Barbara Walters was born the same year as these two venerable giants, and she died on 30 December 2022). Dr. King ...

Since my first year in college, I wanted to learn French. This language has always attracted me, because of all the culture it is associated with. And so, four years ago, I started my learning journey, in my free time, and today I am at an intermediate level and I am very happy with the progress I m...