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What YJ Thinks

Yew Jin Lim

After 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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Finding calm in life and work

In a meta study involving 177 studies and more than 22,000 people, researchers found that being anxious reliably predicts worse performance on various measures, including working memory, which is the part of your mind that does the processi...

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You can't caffeinate your way out of sleep debt

When I was working in Big Tech, I would drink coffee or tea in the morning (and sometimes the afternoon to be honest) to make it through the day. Since leaving Big Tech, it took a while to transition but I no longer have a regular coffee or...

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a religion

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Arthur C. Clarke perhaps wrote that as a compliment to engineers, but it speaks volumes about the audience. Magic isn’t a property of the machine but that sense lives...

19 days ago
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Be average, expect average returns

That’s not an insult. It’s arithmetic. Do what the median person does, read what they read, take the jobs they take, hold the opinions they hold, and you get the median outcome. The market pays you what your inputs are worth.

Whether that’...

22 days ago
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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:...

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