Brian Lui's blog

Master the skill of entering flow state on demand by understanding how your subconscious mind really works.

Ever wondered if you could change what you like and dislike more quickly? Now you can learn how.

Telling people to work harder is not helpful.

Doing unimportant things makes you lucky.

Why some people and some organizations never get lucky.

Tight feedback loops are seductive because they give us the feeling of rapid improvement. But here's the problem with them.

Building good communities is hard. Counter-intuitively, a hostile environment can create more positive communities.

Creating value can harm you.

I visited San Francisco and met many people from a variety of tech and tech-adjacent areas. I also walked around the city and travelled to nearby Bay Area locations. I came away with several findings.

Preference changing takes the skill of habit formation to the next level.

Housing supply is a problem in cities all over the world.

Francis Fukuyama wrote some great books.

Inversion asks, “what if something was the opposite?” Dimensional decoupling asks, “what if something wasn’t an opposite?”

By overcoming our fears, we can comfortably adopt a “Yes, And” mindset when appropriate.

Understand how other people feel and think.