Yunkai’s Tidbits

Asking for Help

I’ve often observed engineers who are reluctant to ask for help.

Dec 16, 2024 • 

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Predictably Irrational

This weekend, I was home all by myself, since my wife took our daughter to Vancouver for the Taylor Swift Eras Tour concert.

Dec 9, 2024 • 

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November 2024

Good Leaders - Part IV, Handle Peer Mistakes

Last week I talked about how leaders handle mistakes by their team. This time I’ll continue on this topic, but with a slight difference, which is how to…

Nov 25, 2024 • 

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Good Leaders, Part III - Handle Mistakes

I talked about how great leaders do during either war time or peace time before.

Nov 18, 2024 • 

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State of Copilot, Part 2

Since the publication of State of Copilot 2 months ago, we’ve had more interactions with copilot, and this gave me some new insights.

Nov 11, 2024 • 

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Email & Chat

For the majority of my professional life, work communication has always been a combination of email + chat.

Nov 4, 2024 • 

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October 2024

Flow State

Flow State, according to wikipedia, is defined as the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of…

Oct 28, 2024 • 

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Good Leaders, Part II - Follow the Delegate

Last time we talked about when shit happens, good leaders roll up their sleeves and be ready to jump in to help.

Oct 21, 2024 • 

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Good Leaders, Part I - Roll Up Sleeves

Shit happens.

Oct 14, 2024 • 

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Strong Opinions, Loosely Held

From 2006 to 2012, I worked as the eng lead in Google Ads Trust & Safety area, and had many PM partners.

Oct 7, 2024 • 

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September 2024

Do you know what you truly are good at?

Last week I talked about “do you know what you truly want”, and a natural progression of this topic is “do you know what you truly are good at”.

Sep 30, 2024 • 

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Do you know what you truly want?

In Founding Engineers, Part I, I mentioned that “I don’t know what I want yet” would be a great future topic.

Sep 23, 2024 • 

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