Ming’s Wisdom

It amazed me when I opened up this site and looked at my last article, it was a whole month ago! Life has definitely changed in the past couple months now that I look back on it. My decision to leave the corporate world and enter a world of new possibilities almost 3 months ago was definitely the right choice to make. Looking back, these are the things that have changed:

1. There is no longer anyone to tell me what to do. The only things that determine what I do now are what makes sense to me and what inspires me.
2. Work becomes fun. I’ve had moments where I just didn’t want to leave the work I was doing that day, and didn’t want to go to sleep because I wanted to keep working, and jump up at 8am to do work before breakfast.
3. Life becomes a fast-paced craziness. Starting the moment I wake up, ending around 1am, every day is extreme productivity. Not the kind of productivity where you simply get stuff done. It’s the kind of productivity where you make decisions that will affect you for the next two years, on top of getting stuff done. This comes with a side-effect of forgetting what day of the week it is, and sometimes what month it is.
4. I see a future. It feels like the past 4 years of working for others can be summarized as this: neglecting my own development. Moving up in the corporation really doesn’t count as developing your own abilities, it’s just doing more to develop a group of people that has already taken the time to develop themselves. Unlike earning a salary, everything done now to create income sources builds up, where every action taken multiplies your previous effectiveness by some multiplier.

So it’s really crazy how in the past whole month I have not had 20 minutes to update this site. You must be wondering what I’ve been up to. Well I’ve taken a lot of time working with Johnny to improve our ticket-selling automation code, with good results. We’ve sold some tickets already through the new code (e.g. with less manual work), and we’re super excited.

There’s something else up my sleeve though, done in a slightly larger team, that’s going to be exciting for a lot of you. It’s still in the works, so stay tuned for our release announcement in the near future =).

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