Category: Life

Instead of New Year’s Resolutions, I am doing New Year’s Theme. This focus more on the what and why but less on how. This way I am not stuck with “doing push-ups every day” when I find out other forms of exercises are better for me 6 months from now. For 2022, I have decided…

Since when do we not allow ourselves to fail? Since when do we have to do everything perfectly? Since when do we take failures personally? If we are trying something new, we are going to fail. If our judgement was wrong, we are going to fail. If we are living, we are going to fail.…

Here are more quotes I like from Warren Buffett’s 2014 special letter titled “Berkshire – Past, Present and Future.” Enjoy! When we differ, Charlie usually ends the conversation by saying: “Warren, think it over and you’ll agree with me because you’re smart and I’m right.” Forget what you know about buying fair businesses at wonderful…

I often caught myself overestimating the difficulty of certain tasks. “Oh, I know how to do this part but what about the other part? I don’t know how that part is built.” This internal fear would sometimes stop me from taking actions. Our brains are so bad at estimating time it takes to complete an…

Here are two quotes I like from Warren Buffett’s 2014 special letter titled “Berkshire – Past, Present and Future.” In our view, it is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire. Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is…

Merry Christmas, everyone!

We often give up too early. For some reason, as an adult, I gave myself very little room for error. If it is not perfect for the first time, I have failed. Try at least three times, more often than not, the results are great by then. We just need to ignore the negative inner…

Don’t chase perfection, it’s a fool’s game. How many times do you scroll through Netflix feed for 30 minutes trying to pick the perfect show to watch? How many times do you delay a project because the condition are not perfect? Maybe it is better to give 5 minutes to the show you are remotely…

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. Bill Gates Rome wasn’t built in a day. All these quotes are talking about the same thing, persistent incremental steps over a long period of time will result in impactful changes. Baby steps help to make…

This book is the polished version of his “Stock Series” and some other blog posts which you can read here. On Debt: Avoid credit card debt and auto loan, and be cautious about student loan and mortgage. The Importance of F-You Money: To gain “freedom to do what you want and to work for whom…