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On Reading and Writing

On Reading and Writing

If you only read and don’t write, you are doing it wrong.

Anthony Ao
Anthony Ao
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👨🏻‍🎓 A decade after high school graduation. What did I learn?

👨🏻‍🎓 A decade after high school graduation. What did I learn?

I wrote this reflection in Jun 2023 then forgot about it. Now reading it in Oct 2024, it hit me hard (in a good way).

Anthony Ao
Anthony Ao
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🪐 Stars, life, and experience

🪐 Stars, life, and experience

If the Mayas, the Aztecs, or our ancient civilizations that took so much information from the stars knew that the stars they saw were actually images from light-years ago, would that make the stars or the messages they received from them any less significant?

Anthony Ao
Anthony Ao
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😭What I learned from posting every day on LinkedIn for 30 days (June 1-31, 2024)

😭What I learned from posting every day on LinkedIn for 30 days (June 1-31, 2024)

Lessons Learned about LinkedIn Marketing

Anthony Ao
Anthony Ao
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😼 How to stay motivated continuously

😼 How to stay motivated continuously

If there is no destination, it is drifting, not sailing. Motivation is ultimately based on how clear the destination is and why getting to the destination matters at all.

Anthony Ao
Anthony Ao
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Founder & CEO can never be the same person.

Founder & CEO can never be the same person.

I am more a founder type. What about you?

Anthony Ao
Anthony Ao
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📝 Keep Rewriting Your Mission Statement

📝 Keep Rewriting Your Mission Statement

Three years ago, I wrote this when I was living in Copenhagen.

Anthony Ao
Anthony Ao
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🙂‍↔️ How to overcome self-doubt

🙂‍↔️ How to overcome self-doubt

“Will I make it?”, “Will everything in my presentation be alright tomorrow?”, “Will the new studio look exactly like I want?”, “Will the meeting be successful?”

Anthony Ao
Anthony Ao
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🙅‍♀️ Why I never recommend entrepreneurship to anyone

🙅‍♀️ Why I never recommend entrepreneurship to anyone

Talk to entrepreneurs you meet on a Start-Up Day or conference; it is not hard to find them overhyping on small things, smiling way too much, being overly optimistic, as if they are overdosed. Are their minds fxxxxx up?

Anthony Ao
Anthony Ao
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🤔 Sometimes being ambitious is not good (?)

🤔 Sometimes being ambitious is not good (?)

Is it a good thing to be ambitious?

Anthony Ao
Anthony Ao
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✨ 5 Years, 15 Lessons: What I Learned Scaling and Downsizing a Startup 🚀📉

✨ 5 Years, 15 Lessons: What I Learned Scaling and Downsizing a Startup 🚀📉

My company is 5 years old. We grew from 0 to a team of 11, then downsized to 5. Here are 15 lessons I’ve learned along the way.

Anthony Ao
Anthony Ao
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What is the molar mass of LinkedIn?

What is the molar mass of LinkedIn?

And, why don’t we have a Nobel Prize in Marketing?

Anthony Ao
Anthony Ao