Personal Growth

I’ve recently returned from my trip to China, visiting Suzhou, Shanghai, and Hangzhou. The journey took me down memory lane—my first visit to Suzhou and Shanghai was in late 2008. That 16-year gap gave me a unique lens to measure…

For most of 2024, life was great. But as the year drew to a close, my dad’s health took a sharp and dramatic turn. He’s been smoking since his teens—five decades of cigarettes—and had always managed to shrug off the…

In primary school, I remember learning how trees constantly compete with each other for sunlight, each one stretching and outgrowing the others in a fight for survival. It made sense at the time. I often saw trees leaning toward the…

Last week, I shared Roger Federer’s inspiring Dartmouth commencement address on my weekly newsletter—The 3-Bullet Sunday. If you haven’t had a chance to watch the full 25-minute video yet, I highly recommend it! But I also wanted to distill some…

When it comes to reading, my goal isn’t productivity per se. Instead, I allow my curiosity to guide me, often entering a state of reflection. Over time, this approach has led me to read more, enabling me to compound my…

Recording of the Zoom book club discussion at the bottom of this post. Having written for about three years now, I’m mightily aware that I always have to put the most important thing first. Because our attention spans, much like…

I’m going to share a game-changer with you. When I first picked up “The 4-Hour Work Week” by Tim Ferriss in 2010 as a student, I was skeptical. The idea of a work week lasting only four hours seemed impractical,…

I want to share something personal with you—I never envisioned Steady Compounding as my full-time pursuit. It was January 23rd 2020. I was three years into my public service contract with a year remaining, when a message titled “WHAT’S NEXT?”…