Ambition

I am thinking to increase the size of my mentorship program so that more people are working on climate change. What I will do is leverage my old connections from my old solar mentoring program (where I failed as a mentor), and see if any of those would-be mentees from the past know of any young up and coming youngsters who have a lot of potential.

The reason I do this is because the number of ideas for projects I have far exceeds my bandwidth (like I literally have 1,000+ ideas for projects as of today). And remarkably, there do exist ambitious young people who are willing to receive my indoctrination, books, and project planning, and execute on them. In fact, the creativity part is hard for them, but the execution they are flawless. So we complement each other well, because I think the projects I give them expose them to creativity and perseverance.

Lying by Sam Harris

 I’m not even going to give this book a rating. Why was it so short?!

Missed Translations by Sopan Deb

 

4/5 stars. It’s pretty sad, not melancholy because he’s a comedian. But if you think about it pretty sad and sadder than expected in the beginning. It was enjoyable like a memoir but not as dry as a memoir. I can never finish memoirs. It was fun to travel to India with Sopan.

Work orders / FixIt requests

(February 19, 2022)

I love submitting work order/FixIt requests. You can make the world a better place without doing any labor yourself. I feel like a magician!

Other people just take the world for granted. The other day one of the key card access devices was broken and so everyone was using a different entrance to the building. I submitted a work order so I was the only one who knew it was fixed, and my friend was like “Whatt!! How did you enter through there? My card doesn't work on that entrance”

My response: “Weird, maybe it's just you” :)

First day of my new job, hopefully not a bad omen

7am before work

I accidentally bumped your two eggs while getting my salad and dear god they rolled and fell into a mysterious cavern at the back of the inside of fridge 😳 

I will have to remove the top drawer later today to clean/ remove the eggs, they are in a cavern of their own

My friend Tiki’s Hawaii Oahu Recommendations

“Tiki” is the nickname he goes by but that is a COINCIDENCE

“cliff diving at china walls is a must

shimazu shave ice

leonards malasadas 

i think diamond head is overrated

off the hook seafood

in terms of clubs and stuff moani had not bad music 

and buho is this place where the floor turns into a dance floor 

farmers markets are great too!!

north shore has way better beaches

mermaid caves on west side were okay

lanikai beach was amazing

so was giovannis shrimp truck

carry around lots of cash btw!”

My recs (family favorites):

Marugame Udon

Ramen Nakamura

Recent books as of July 1, 2022

 The Power of Habit (still reading, 3.75/5 stars)

The Rosie Project (4.5/5, enjoyable, funny)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (5/5, absolute page turner, both funny and heartwarming, an easy and memorable read, made me cry)

Becoming Guan Yin (3/5 spiritual fairytales that emphasize compassion)

The Diamond Cutter (2/5, boring not super focused)

Nonviolent Communication (4.25/5 really useful) 

Open Borders The Science and Ethics of Immigration (5/5 brilliant)

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire (3.5/5 clever prose style but not a page turner)

Aspergirls (4.5/5)

Bill Gates How to Prevent the Next Pandemic (4/5 couldn’t finish because information was obvious) 

Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire (4.5/5 easy read, interesting but perhaps not novel)

Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids (4/5 hard to give a fair reading because I already listened to a podcast about it so found it boring)

Radical Candor (2/5 crappy kind of obvious but had some nice unique anecdotes throughout that you can only get from this author about office life in tech)

The Stench of Honolulu (5/5 hilarious I died laughing)

How to Talk to Anyone 92 Tricks (4.75/5 very good refresher and tool expansion read if you are a student of conversationalism) 

The Road to Character (sampled, seems interesting maybe not a page turner but very thoughtful but a little too focused on sin)

Come Fly the World (sampled, will buy, sufficient page turner, good primary sources perspectives on what it was like to be a Pan Am stewardess and the interplay between this and feminism) 

The Comic Toolbox (sampled, will buy, sufficient page turner)

Finding the Funny Fast (sampled, bad writing quality) 

Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships (sampled, a little bit dry)

Uniquely Human (sampled, a little bit dry) 

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan (sampled, will buy, a solid intriguing read on psychedelics and the current “psychedelic renaissance”)