Redefine Gifting

Sam Lin
2 min readDec 17, 2020

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šŸ€ Feeling lucky to spend Ray & Friendsā€™ $50 on ClimateCycle, inspiring students to green our world this week. ClimateCycle rings my bell because:

  1. I may be too old to change the world. But students are just getting started. Further more with CS superpower, they will make the world a better place quicker.
  2. What can go wrong to green our world šŸ˜‰. We were talking about what are you grateful in 2020 this week at work. I mentioned itā€™s even possible to thanks to COVID. Because Global CO2 emissions were significantly down, around -5%. So what may we double down to make it non-situational? Psst 4DWW šŸ¦¾!
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Sharing is Caring

A few friends asked why am I bother to plan another book by starting from regular posts. I guess sharing my experience in the industries, observations and random thoughts maybe helpful to reduce trial & error for newcomers. Beside I donā€™t have enough friends to nag, especially virtual hall way chats this year still less fun than water cooler chats šŸ˜‰.

It actually started from 2017 as an excuse to spend time for my son to practice his Chinese by translating my broken English. Later I find itā€™s useful whenever friends & Iā€™re bouncing ideas around. In the meantime to improve communication skill has always been the area to grow in my performance review every year. Likely in the next one too šŸ˜…. Finally, Iā€™m ā€œofficially disqualified as a PM materialā€ because of communication skills last year. I guess the Load had sent me ā€œtwo boats and a helicopterā€. So to walk my talk, stay open for my writing is the way forward.

One More Gift

Inspired by Ray & Friends, Iā€™ll donate all my earnings from Medium to a charity on education. Yep, itā€™s nothing today šŸ˜…. Therefore I should fill the gap whenever itā€™s less than $100 every year. So thank you for reading & sharing.

Discretion

The opinions stated here are my own, not those of my company.

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Sam Lin
Sam Lin

Written by Sam Lin

A Taiwanese lives in Silicon Valley since 2014 with my own random opinions to share. And, they are my own, not those of companies I work for.

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