What YJ Thinks
Yew Jin LimAfter nearly two decades building Google Search as a Eng Director, I now write about AI, crypto, trail running, and the slower practices that make life meaningful.
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Parkrun #4: 23:35
This series of articles is part of my journey aiming for a sub-20min 5K. See my previous articles chronicling 24:43 → 23:47 → 23:20 → 23:35 (this article).
After parkrun #3 I wrote the fix down: pace better. I had 22:30 legs and 23:...
You can't max a life
There’s a word for it now. Maxxing.
Looksmaxxing. Sleepmaxxing. Gymmaxxing. Moneymaxxing. You take one part of yourself and push it to the ceiling. Faster, better, higher than the person next to you. The word crawled out of some grim corne...
Why is this even called "What YJ Thinks"?
When I started this Substack, I needed a name. I write about tech, running, crypto, meditation, and life, and at the risk of going against the conventional wisdom of writing about a focused topic, “What YJ Thinks” was broad enough to hold a...
The standard life playbook is broken. That’s fine.
Work hard, get ahead. That was the deal. Study, get the credential, join a good company, put in the hours, and the rewards will follow. For a few generations, the deal mostly held. If you grew up believing it, that’s because the people tell...
Treating people like pawns builds brittle empires
I have been speaking with folks still in Big Tech, and for the middle managers especially, it’s become a high-pressure, high-stress, low-motivation place to work.
Discouragingly, some of the most successful people I’ve watched there treat...
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