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What YJ Thinks

Yew Jin Lim
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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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I didn’t plan to become a 5am person.

You most definitely wouldn’t have pegged me as a morning person at all if you met me earlier in my life. I used to be the person who worked well into the night until it become a question of whether it...

9 days ago
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Stop the pursuit of happiness

I was nudged towards "Meno's paradox and happiness" by one of my readers. I was previously not familiar with this text so I needed to do research and actually read and think about it, but they were pretty sure this would make for at least a...

14 days ago
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Nothing to Do Doesn’t Mean Doing Nothing

The beloved Zen teacher, Thích Nhất Hạnh, taught about the idea of “nothing to do, nowhere to go.“

I’ve always loved this saying despite not fully grokking it. On the surface, the notion of “nothing to do, nowhere to go” sounded like a com...

19 days ago
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It was never obvious. Start anyway.

These days, I get asked every month or so by someone early in their career journey a variant of this question: how do you start a career, especially in CS, when AI is eating entry-level jobs, when the people running things seem to be making...

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Wisdom isn’t hard to find, it’s hard to receive

As a rule, we undervalue whatever feels abundant, and only learn its value when it becomes scarce.

For example, when you’re young, time and health feel infinite while money feels scarce. So you trade time for money, and sometimes health fo...

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