Tag: habit

  • Forming habits to meditate, stretch, and the next step

    Forming habits to meditate, stretch, and the next step

    By accident I stumbled upon a method to start changing behaviors. 2018 In 2018 I wanted to not buy anything that was not perishable. I wanted to learn to pratice self control. As the year passed, I wrote down as few rules as I realized the gap between a very strict rule and what else…

  • Why Do I Blog Publicly?

    Why Do I Blog Publicly?

    (The photo is my sfbadminton.org group playing a badminton tournament at Stanford) Why Do I Blog Publicly? Before I answer that question.   I will tell you who is the audience for my blog at tonytam.org. Audience I write the blog with me as the primary target audience.  The reason I write is to clarify and…

  • BJ Fogg’s Behavior Grid: How To Form Habits

    This is an interesting read from a Stanford professor, on how to form healthy habits as well as how Facebook became a habit for many people. I personally have been using this model for myself to remind myself to do push ups and drink water. Using motivation (getting stronger), ability (right before bedtime) and trigger (a…

  • The Design Thinking Methodology

    Trying to adopt this in my technical work at Yahoo! 1. understanding the problem to be solved 2. defining what one is trying to achieve 3. brainstorming ideas and potential solutions 4. getting feedback 5. prototyping a solution 6. testing the solution, and 7. repeating the process until a good solution is achieved.