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Treenhan Studio: Unleashing Imagination through AI

Treenhan Studio: Unleashing Imagination through AI

In 1986, Steve Jobs had a vision for the future of animation. He founded Pixar with the ambitious goal of creating the world’s first fully computer-generated feature film. At the time, this was seen as nearly impossible, but Jobs persevered. Through tireless innovation and commitment to quality storytelling, Pixar

Being a manager - Lesson 1: Help people make decisions

Being a manager - Lesson 1: Help people make decisions

As I would like to be a great manager in a near future, I will start a series of writings about the lessons that I observed in real life. Each lesson will focus on one particular managing principle that I am happy with, and packed with a bunch of examples

Stop looking for answers, just think!

Stop looking for answers, just think!

What is your first action when someone asks you: "How much calories does a banana provide?", I bet many of us will pull out a phone the same way a samurai pulls out their sword in a fight, and get an instant answer from search engines like google in a

What's today's problem?

What's today's problem?

I spent tons of time researching ways to make myself more productive, from Pomodoro timers to dopamine tricks. Unlucky me, none of them works really well. There are only a day or two per week when I feel extremely productive, and it turned out that I work very well with

How to choose a business partner

How to choose a business partner

I am sure everyone loves investing in projects, whether technology startups or mining cryptocurrencies. Every project has its ups and downs, and you will only learn when bad things happen. I consider myself lucky enough to experience both the good and the bad sides of business partnerships, laying out a

How to initiate and drive change

How to initiate and drive change

I don't usually create yearly resolutions for myself, mainly because I find them obsolete or not relevant as a few months pass by. I prefer doing weekly goals and changing them as I go. However, there are these 4 specific skills that I would love to practice and obtain this

How to give advice

How to give advice

I am the one who sucks at giving advice, as in most of the time, my advice are either inapplicable or irrelevant to the one receiving it. And this is the problem as I won't be able to grow further in my career if the advice I give are not

TIL: Thread pool exhaustion is a Java specific problem

TIL: Thread pool exhaustion is a Java specific problem

Have you ever heard of the thread exhaustion problem? It is when you ask your Java program to make many synchronous (blocking) RPC calls to other systems, to the extent that all threads are used, hence hanging the program. Think of a thread like a live snapshot of a program,

The secret key to unlock productivity

The secret key to unlock productivity

Have you got days when you get nothing done at all? Trust me, I have those days too, and they all feel terrible. I even start to think that I am one of the lazy employees that can not get anything done. However, after a lot of chit chatting with

Why Google was so innovative?

Why Google was so innovative?

I can't believe it has been 2 years straight after I open this personal website... I did not do anything! Well, a lot of things have changed, and the biggest achievement so far was to survive working at Google in London for the last 1.5 years. I learned just