If you want to become a writer, you need to start thinking like a writer. What’s the easiest way to do that? Copy books word for word. It allows you to subconsciously understand the author’s tone of voice and writing style. If done enough, you will be able to change writing styles as you please. … Read more
My girlfriend is Chinese. She looks like this. A few weeks ago, she took me to eat dim sum. One thing she ordered was chicken feet. Then we went to this pho place. She had a soup. It had this pork blood stuff in it that was shaped as squares. She was eating BBQ one … Read more
Someone on Quora asked: How do I overcome my feelings of depression from only getting a tech support job while my friends all got good software jobs at reputed companies? I believe I’m not clinically depressed. I am an engineering graduate from a tier-3 college in India. There were few placements at my college and … Read more
Why would anyone in the world pay $50,000 to have you write a business plan, when they can get an outline on how to make one on their own here for free: Leonard Kim’s answer to How does one create a business plan? Also, there are many professionals out there who write killer business plans … Read more
It’s a pretty simple process. Step 1. Don’t look for them. Step 2. Put your head down and work. Step 3. Make something of yourself / company / product. Step 4. They will go out of their way to contact you and request a meeting. P.S. I read minds. I know what you’re thinking. This … Read more
John Pak, a sales manager at Manhattan Beach Toyota asked me to amortize out a 5 year loan at a certain interest rate without a calculator. I think he was just messing with me, to see if I would even try to figure it out. So I asked for scratch paper and answered it in … Read more
I don’t know. I was working at this real estate investment company thing. We were selling condos in Florida. I lined up 25 deals to go through in one month. My expected commission was supposed to be $50,000. I was on track to doing that every month for a year. I was going to buy … Read more
Congratulations! You found the perfect girl! So did I. Many times, actually. There was… You know what, the list of women is way too long to name. Let’s just skip all that. So, through these interactions in my life, I found the perfect woman. Except, there was always a problem. And at different points in … Read more
In the past, I would have laughed at the thought of having just the minimum of myself. I wanted everything. Where that led me was to a life of hopelessness and despair, chasing after worldly possessions that had controlled my life. As I aged and reflected, I came to find that chasing after these worldly … Read more
Someone on Quora asked: As far as I can remember, I have been rejected. I have been rejected from friends until I was in high-school, I have been rejected from different opportunities, and now I am being rejected from job opportunities. It makes me feel worthless. If I get rejected from most things I apply … Read more