Ash Hong

After screening a few hundred CVs, conducting 60+ interviews, and spending over 100 hours, I finally made one (1) hire. It was the most thorough recruitment process I had ever gone through. For 6 months, I was operating one man down. I spoke with scores of junior managers, tech marketers,

Story time, kids. Before stoicism made it to Silicon Valley tech bros and mindfulness became a part of modern psychology, Viktor Frankl learned this while suffering in the concentration camps: Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our

Story time, Josiah. Over the past few months, you've started to resist your afternoon nap. You would say (scream) things like “I’m not tired at all” and “I don’t want to take an afternoon rest”. One Saturday evening at 6pm, literally seconds after a particularly defiant

Joy has been beckoning you for many a year my friend, you were just too busy doing, to see. The very next time joy wraps her quiet warmth around you, as the garden embraces your weary body in its wildness, tip her a nod. She doesn’t stay long. But

Since childhood, I've always gravitated to writing. At 9, I was so smitten by my baby sister, I wrote her a poem. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been drawn to good storytelling. I even started out my career in communications (only because journalism

Story time, kids. It's way past your bedtime. Your mother just snapped at me for bringing one of you into the room while she was nursing another one of you back to sleep. “Check your damn phone” she hissed, her eyes flashing red amidst the pitch black room.

In a Star Wars: The Acolyte episode, Master Indara (Trinity!) drops some shade on Sol after he patiently explained the importance of the work they were doing to her whiny padawan. They were stuck on a mysterious planet collecting plant and earth samples. Sol explained the significance of the work