Category: journal
why being transparent is so much better than
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@ journalMuch of life on social media that is produced, sanitized, performative, and carefully curated. Every post gets optimized for maximum views and clicks or to grow an audience, for what? Every vulnerability is the kind that makes you look good for being vulnerable. Why in the world would so many people do all that? The…
“What do you do?” 2026
It’s the middle of April 2026. Time for an update. Why? Because I’m not doing what I used to do back in February 2020, when I titled that post, “What is it that you do exactly?” I still do a bunch of things, some paid & some unpaid. Some have continued & some have changed.…
speaking to a Fuller Seminary class
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As part of my faith journey, I will say yes to every invitation to share about how I’m living with a mental health diagnosis, going on 26 years now. When I shared about this special invitation from Fuller Seminary with some friends, several asked for a recording. I was honored to be invited. And even…
rightsizing how I engage online spaces
This is a personal check-in to say hello to the world, as I have not kept up with my previous pace of blogging and updates. At its peak, I’d post something 2-3 times a week. Then the pace became once a week. And, as social media accelerated aggresively & addictingly, blogging went down to once…
Dr. Peter Woo: math, music, missions
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@ journalDr. Peter Woo is a retired math professor and also my father-in-law, the beloved Dad of my dear wife (spouse & partner.) We recently celebrated his 84th birthday with 30-some friends, some who’ve known him for over 40 years! He loved teaching mathematics at Biola University from 1988 to 2005. And, he is not only…
what does it mean that depression is treatable?
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When the experts and advocates say that depression is treatable, it means that effective treatment is available to help most people (70%-90%) to experience relief from the symptoms of depression. They don’t use the phrase of curing depression, because a cure would mean eradicating and getting rid of the illness 100% and never having it…
blogging in 2024, huh, what is it good for?
More than two decades ago, the internet opened up unlimited space for all of us to express our perspectives, thoughts, and voices through blogging. I started in 1999 myself. Since then, social media has opened up more spaces, platforms, and channels for expression in so many other formats, photos, short posts, audios, videos, video shorts,…
Do you know who is the ultimate prompt engineer?
We are fast entering this age of artificial intelligence, with big data feeding into machine learning, and the aggregated data becoming useful for collective computing to anticipate the human tendencies and pattern recognition of common answers to frequently asked questions. It dawned upon me during a recent conversation, that we are moving from flat 2-dimensional…
my first time doing standup comedy
I had a quiet little dream since my teenage years as a comedian wannabe. 40 years later, on October 26, 2022, I found that 20 seconds of courage and stepped up to an open mic in San Juan Capistrano, California, and did my first stsandup comedy gig. Here’s the raw video of how it went…
My moment to rethink leadership
With my personal websites crashing this past weekend, because my shared hosting service lost all my data, I’ve started to rethink why I do what I do online, with much of it being given away freely for going on 20 years. And, it so happens I am going to a church conference called Rethink Leadership…
all my websites’ data was lost by InMotion Hosting
Do you know what you’re getting with your web hosting service? You probably can’t rely on others. Here’s why.
Choosing the Important Things in Your Life
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@ journalWhen life affords you the privilege to think about more than survival, it’s human to explore questions of meaning, purpose, and what’s important
