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Show Your Radical Candor When Giving Feedback

posted in All, Books, Life Thoughts, Sketchnotes on 04/21/2021 by yingying 0 Comments

Show your radical candor when giving feedback, illustrated by Yingying

What radical candor means and how to give radically candid feedback.

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Book Notes: It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work

posted in All, Books on 01/28/2019 by yingying 0 Comments

Quick thoughts about the book. First book sketchnotes I’ve ever done.

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Book Notes: The Laws of Simplicity

posted in All, Books, Designing & Making on 07/18/2018 by yingying 0 Comments


Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful. — John Maeda

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Book Notes: Steal Like An Artist

posted in All, Books, Creativity • Products • Designs on 04/21/2018 by yingying 0 Comments

steal-like-an-artist-book

Hmm, yet another book on becoming more creative?

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Book Notes: In Progress

posted in All, Books, Designing & Making on 12/24/2017 by yingying 0 Comments

in progress by Jessica Hische

I can’t wait to read it. Finished it up on Christmas Eve.

I haven’t worked on lettering enough to be able to tell whether I’m into it or not. But, I really enjoy her pieces of wisdom on work ethics, processes and tactics throughout the book. I read it with a pencil and lined words, phrases and sentences I loved. Needless to say, I made lots of lines.

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Book Notes: On Writing Well

posted in All, Books, Life Thoughts on 11/30/2016 by yingying 0 Comments

on writing well

It is a how-to writing book, teaching principles and techniques to whoever likes to take her or his writing to the next level. It’s exactly what I need.

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Book Notes: The Art of Thinking Clearly

posted in All, Books, Leadership on 07/27/2016 by yingying 0 Comments

The Art of Thinking Clearly

“The Art of Thinking Clearly”, written by Rolf Dobelli, is a really interesting book. It gives some how-tos on critical thinking.

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Book Notes: Deep Work

posted in All, Books, Life Thoughts on 07/07/2016 by yingying 0 Comments

deep work

For those subjects that are truly important to our lives and careers, that require a deep focus and hard work to make great progress, we need to be able to drill down into the subjects, and really work our way up.

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Book Notes: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

posted in All, Books, Life Thoughts on 06/26/2016 by yingying 0 Comments

life-changing-magic-of-tidying-up

Knowing the book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” by Marie Kondo (KonMari) for months, I finally took action to clean up my closet, starting from clothes.

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Book Notes: Creative Confidence — Get Products to the Real World Early

posted in All, Books, Creativity • Products • Designs on 05/05/2016 by yingying 0 Comments

In this fast-paced, you will need to get your products to the real world early, rather than handing it over to the users when it’s perfectly built, because that will be too late.

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