Archive

2025  2

January  2

Build a second brain with Obsidian as my Knowledge Management System

January 17, 2025 · 10 min · 2121 words · Tiffena Kou

2024 in recap - my most favorite content

January 10, 2025 · 9 min · 1777 words · Tiffena Kou

2024  10

September  2

My learning journey on Coursera

September 21, 2024 · 15 min · 2988 words · Tiffena Kou

Creating Value, Not Just Products Lessons from Keyence

September 18, 2024 · 4 min · 1578 words · Tiffena Kou

July  1

Debunking the creative process : how non-creatives can harness creativity with routines, linking and practice

July 14, 2024 · 9 min · 1832 words · Tiffena Kou

May  1

Too much creativity, or too little humanity in a GenAI priest

May 24, 2024 · 5 min · 924 words · Tiffena Kou

March  1

Nakano Yoshihisa on always living in the present moment

March 28, 2024 · 8 min · 1614 words · Tiffena Kou

February  1

Innovations by Japanese booksellers to bring people back to reading and gathering

February 3, 2024 · 10 min · 2067 words · Tiffena Kou

January  4

Out with negative content, in with nutrients for our mind

January 28, 2024 · 7 min · 1486 words · Tiffena Kou

Wakamiya Masako, world’s oldest iOS programmer, on lifelong learning and aging wisely

January 18, 2024 · 10 min · 1926 words · Tiffena Kou

Minimalist living in Tokyo opens up a big world

January 13, 2024 · 3 min · 1045 words · Tiffena Kou

Regain your innate calmness with renowned Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh

January 3, 2024 · 8 min · 1507 words · Tiffena Kou

2023  12

December  3

2023 Books Recap

December 31, 2023 · 4 min · 1575 words · Tiffena Kou

Recalibrate our brain with mindfulness

December 21, 2023 · 14 min · 2789 words · Tiffena Kou

Matsuura Yataro on training oneself for thoughtful and tasteful living

December 9, 2023 · 7 min · 1324 words · Tiffena Kou

November  1

Tsutaya - transforming physical bookstores into concierges for idea exchange and lifestyle exploration

November 12, 2023 · 6 min · 2711 words · Tiffena Kou

October  4

Recommender Systems - Then and Now

October 29, 2023 · 6 min · 1176 words · Tiffena Kou

Kihon - my fundamentals and principles in life

October 19, 2023 · 1 min · 453 words · Tiffena Kou

Traveling as a PM dojo

October 4, 2023 · 7 min · 1341 words · Tiffena Kou

7-11 Japan’s hypothesis-driven innovations for product excellency

October 1, 2023 · 11 min · 2289 words · Tiffena Kou

September  1

The beauty of practicing Just Enough Design in our daily lives

September 2, 2023 · 8 min · 1512 words · Tiffena Kou

August  1

3 things a new hotel brand teaches us about product planning

August 31, 2023 · 4 min · 821 words · Tiffena Kou

January  2

3 time-tested leadership lessons passed down by Japanese temple carpenters 1000 years ago

January 26, 2023 · 3 min · 1251 words · Tiffena Kou

2022 in recap - my most favorite books

January 10, 2023 · 3 min · 1465 words · Tiffena Kou

2022  11

November  1

What can Viktor Frankl’s search for meaning in inevitable sufferings teach us today?

November 25, 2022 · 3 min · 446 words · Tiffena Kou

October  1

‘The Drowned and the Saved’ - an introspection of humanity’s grey zone

October 6, 2022 · 5 min · 941 words · Tiffena Kou

September  1

How to upgrade your Kindle while keeping your existing notes, bookmarks and reading progress

September 5, 2022 · 8 min · 1671 words · Tiffena Kou

July  2

How to produce an interactive visualization using Matplotlib in Python

July 28, 2022 · 4 min · 732 words · Tiffena Kou

Danshari - a radical way to declutter before clutter even happens

July 1, 2022 · 4 min · 1972 words · Tiffena Kou

June  4

Integrate Firebase CLI & Hugo with VS Code for a seamless development environment in Windows

June 22, 2022 · 5 min · 965 words · Tiffena Kou

Why do we procrastinate or aim for unachievable perfection, and how to fix it?

June 19, 2022 · 4 min · 799 words · Tiffena Kou

Improve your reading ROI by building your own knowledge tracking system - Part 3 : Metrics

June 10, 2022 · 8 min · 1625 words · Tiffena Kou

Improve your reading ROI by building your own knowledge tracking system - Part 2 : Build the app

June 1, 2022 · 16 min · 3224 words · Tiffena Kou

May  2

Improve your reading ROI by building your own knowledge tracking system - Part 1 : Learn better

May 23, 2022 · 7 min · 1370 words · Tiffena Kou

Setup your own blog in under 1 hour with Hugo and Firebase, all for free!

May 15, 2022 · 8 min · 1532 words · Tiffena Kou