Tim Huang

5. How Will You Measure Your Life - similar to Designing Your Life, but taking a business strategy lens to find a career / lifestyle that’s aligned with your values

4. The Year of Living Danishly - A British author who moved to Denmark and her observations on why the Danes are so happy (Denmark consistently ranks at #1 for being the happiest country)

3. Designing Your Life - using design thinking methods like brainstorming and prototyping to explore different ways to live a life that’s more coherent with your value system

2. Vagabonding - a practical and motivational guide to long-term travel

1. The Pathless Path - management consultant quits to become a freelancer / writer, learns to turn away from prestige to do his own thing

5 Books I read during my quarter-life crisis (ongoing)

1. The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd
2. Vagabonding by Rolf Potts
3. Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
4. The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
5. How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen

Ljubljana is the cutest capital city I’ve ever seen. They have SPACE themed christmas lights.

My conversation opener whenever I meet someone new at a hostel: “Hi! Did you just get here?”

Then they either say no and you ask for advice on what to do in the city or they say yes and you ask where they’re coming from.

Seamless Bay Area Advocating for a unified and world-class transportation network in the Bay Area

What if… we had more mixed zoning near transportation hubs, transit-oriented development, and transit agencies that actually connect with each other?

I hope the folks at www.seamlessbayarea.org succeed in their mission

At times like this I think about what life would be like if we built a train on every interstate highway

For those who want to follow along on my one-month backpacking journey in Europe, start here —> timhuang.beehiiv.com/p/backpackin...

Taking a high speed train from Vienna to Budapest for <$30. The US could never.

Never used Twitter much but since I’m starting to write more I thought I’d get on the Bluesky train early :) Looks like I was early enough to get a decent handle