Kenny Lee - book

Finished Reading: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov 📚

Stephen Byerley’s rise to the World Co-ordinator hints at a future ruled through humanism. Ironically, robots may be better at this than human.

Humans will have a hard time distinguishing robots and humans when logic and systems thinking prevails. Illogical thinking will expose humans. Therefore, robots/ai will have built-in faults (features) in order to mask itself to gain acceptance.

I, Robot (pub. 1950) doesn’t tell a future with networked robots. If/when robots can disseminate and absorb common knowledge at near instantaneously speed, human’s (dis)ability to learn will be the critical constraint for competition.

→ 3:24 PM, Apr 13

Finished Reading: Hidden Truths by David Fubini 📚

This book highlights the traps of leadership. Good book that complements CEO Excellence by Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, et al.

→ 3:58 PM, Apr 2

Finished Reading: Slow Productivity by Cal Newport 📚

Principals
1. Do Fewer Things: Reducing one’s obligations to a manageable level, allowing for a deeper focus and advancement on a small number of projects that truly matter. Use pull methodology with WIP (Kanban).
2. Work at a Natural Pace: This principle is about giving significant projects the time they deserve, allowing them to unfold along a timeline conducive to brilliance, rather than pushing for immediate completion. Don’t burnout.
3. Obsess Over Quality: Quality, rather than merely completing tasks, leads to more meaningful and fulfilling work. This obsession with quality serves as the glue holding the practice of slow productivity together. Excellence justifies the few and pace.
→ 3:42 PM, Mar 13

Presence Paradox

Best meditation session happened when the guide told me to not meditate.

“We see the Crater Lake with a feeling of ‘Well, there it is,’ just as the pictures show. I watch the other tourists, all of whom seem to have out-of-place looks too. I have no resentment at this, just a feeling that it’s all unreal and that the quality of the lake is smothered by the fact that it’s so pointed to.” The more you try to be here now, to point at what’s happening in this moment and really see it, the more it seems like you aren’t here now—or alternatively that you are, but that the experience has been drained of all its flavor.

~ Oliver Burkeman. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

→ 9:51 AM, Dec 21

Power of Brevity

Brevity breeds better conversations. Have controlled conversations with a rhythm, a purpose, and a point.

Deep brevity is being succinct with savvy. Brevity starts with deep expertise. Only with thorough knowledge can you accurately make a summary.

~ Brief: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less by Joseph McCormack

→ 12:12 PM, Dec 17

Habits

“Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.”

~ Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit

→ 10:11 AM, Oct 17

Finished reading: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown 📚

→ 11:58 PM, Sep 24