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William Liao

Unplug

As I settled into my seat at the coffee shop this morning, I looked up and noticed new signage encouraging patrons to put their phones…

12h ago

Unplug

12h ago

Engine Cranking

Every engine needs to crank in order to start.

1d ago

Engine Cranking

1d ago

The ingredient is not the recipe

Every few months someone recycles a listicle featuring the morning routines of highly successful people as if — and this is the truly…

2d ago

The ingredient is not the recipe

2d ago

Scrappy within reason

We’re often told to not let perfect get in the way of good, which is perfectly reasonable-sounding advice.

3d ago

Scrappy within reason

3d ago

It’s time

As a kid I would walk out of some piano recitals lamenting the mistakes I made, knowing that I could deliver an ever better performance if…

4d ago

It’s time

4d ago

This, not that

A coffee shop I follow recently released a statement addressing negative online reviews citing a lack of menu options, the cost of their…

5d ago

This, not that

5d ago

Breaking character (returning 02/17/25)

Taking week off from writing; will be returning 02/17/25)

Feb 8

Breaking character (returning 02/17/25)

Feb 8

What’s your next act?

Success and failure are more transient states than we are sometimes willing to acknowledge.

Feb 7

What’s your next act?

Feb 7

Make the problem purple

One of my biggest pet peeves year round, and particularly during flu season, is people coughing without covering their mouths.

Feb 7

Make the problem purple

Feb 7

Just a bump

My initial reaction to recently missing a deadline wasn’t great — lots of woe is me, how will things continue to move forward, etc. I felt…

Feb 6

Just a bump

Feb 6

William Liao

William Liao

Taiwanese American, daily blogger of ideas about impactful work in service of others, photographer (ephemera.photography)

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