Lisa JY Tan

A Cool Nerd

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Latest Posts

My way

Do everything. We only have 1 life. And in this life, I want to do everything that I want to do, so I die with no regrets. I have zero…

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Homesick

My heart full of smiles My mind appreciated My soul understood — Lisa T, Homesick. I make homes out of people because there is nothing like being with people you…

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Subtraction

When things aren’t adding up in your life, start subtracting. Had this in my principle for a while now but have not been applying until recent few months. Proof that…

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Of Meditations

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is so good 😍✨ so many things resonate that I was tearing bc I love it so much and can’t express them in words except happy…

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Focused

If you could tell 5 year ago Lisa what current Lisa is doing now, what will you say? Right now, she is living her best life. She knows what needs…

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Tradeoff

What no one mentions: tradeoff. The biggest challenge in running a business is to quantify and decide the tradeoffs to be had. Coming from an economics background, everything I see…

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Current mood (August ’21): Exactly where I want to be.

Note to self

Dear Lisa, you’ll be fine. Just fine. You’re on the right path. Just make sure you don’t deviate too much or get distracted by the next shiny thing. Focus on the things that matter, and keep building building and building. It may be scary out there, but you have the world’s biggest cheerleaders and supporters behind you. You’ll be fine. Just fine.