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William Liao

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

Do you need to consume this right now?

Spend a few moments thinking this over:

Feb 5

Do you need to consume this right now?

Feb 5

Protect your energy

There is no glory in sacrificing all of your energy in an attempt to keep up with some arbitrary pace you’ve set for yourself.

Feb 4

Protect your energy

Feb 4

Is it possible?

It is not the product of wisdom when we tell ourselves something will not work, try the thing having decided it won’t work, conclude that…

Feb 3

Is it possible?

Feb 3

An important problem

Anytime you encounter a frustrating problem, you might find value from reframing it as an “important” problem.

Feb 1

An important problem

Feb 1

4'33"

John Cage’s song 4'33" receives a lot of criticism and jest because it’s decidedly un-song-like in that there isn’t a single note played…

Feb 1

4'33"

Feb 1

Reserved empty space

No one (ok, almost no one) designing room is going to fill every square inch of the space.

Jan 31

Reserved empty space

Jan 31

William Liao

William Liao

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

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