Ehsan Fereyduni
Hey, I’m Ehsan /a-🌞/. Every Monday, I send one short email: 1 Doodle · 1 Do · 1 Direction. You will get one doodle I drew, one small thing to do this week, and one direction to carry with you. A 1-minute read, easy to apply.
1-1-1: September Check-In: Your Next 90-Day
Hey friends, Hope you had a good weekend. Here’s this week’s 1-1-1. 1 Doodle This was the first year in my life I ditched "this year's resolution" and went with a "90-day resolution" instead. This week, I finally hit my goal! I failed in the first 90 days (or in corporate speak, Q1). I worked to make it better and failed again in Q2. But when failure triggers something in me, it makes me unstoppable, nothing motivates me more than falling short! I kept tweaking, and in Q3, I finally reached...
1-1-1: Semiconductor Iceberg
Hey friends, Hope you had a good weekend. Here’s this week’s 1-1-1. 1 Doodle This week, I was looking through the visual templates from the Thinking in Visual Metaphors course by PJ Milani that I took a few months ago. I recalled his advice to explore how we could apply these frameworks to our own areas of expertise. Having worked in the semiconductor space for about six years, I considered which concept would fit best and chose the classic iceberg model. In an iceberg diagram, what sits...
1-1-1: Find Your Passion
Hey friends, Hope you had a good weekend. Here’s this week’s 1-1-1. 1 Doodle Recently, a friend of mine started making handmade soap. Since he has a degree in chemistry, I trusted his product completely. However, after spending over $2,000, he abandoned the project to look for something else. I think the word "passion" is often misused. When someone tells me, "This is my passion," I usually think they are at the latest stage of their interest. This week, I drew a visual to remind both him and...
1-1-1: The Detachment Detour
Hey friends, Hope you had a good weekend. Here’s this week’s 1-1-1. 1 Doodle This week's doodle, "The Detachment Detour," is about what happens when we hit a wall at work. When you are stuck inside a messy problem, trying to force your way straight through the chaos usually just leads to more overthinking. But as the doodle shows, taking a detour below that line of noise, into mental detachment, is often the quickest way to bypass the clutter and find a clear path forward. You have probably...
1-1-1: August Check-In: Your Next 90-Day
Hey friends, Hope you had a good weekend. Here’s this week’s 1-1-1. 1 Doodle We are a few days away from August, which means we have five months left in 2026. I know time goes fast, but what I have learned from this monthly reminder is that it slightly slows things down for me, not that much, but enough that I feel the year. In the past, it was just January to December, but now, since I'm counting the months with these monthly reminders, I feel more conscious about my time. I'm not sure if...
1-1-1: Vision Gives You a Target
Hey friends, Hope you had a good weekend. Here’s this week’s 1 Doodle · 1 Do · 1 Direction. 1 Doodle A few months ago, I finally scheduled a one-on-one meeting with a mentor at work. There was only one person between him and the CEO, so I assumed he might decline my request. But he didn’t. My main goal was to gain a clearer vision for my career, not to identify specific milestones, but to understand who I want to become. This week, I started thinking about what happens when we have no vision...
1-1-1: Towards Burnout
Hey friends, Hope you had a good weekend. Here’s this week’s 1 Doodle · 1 Do · 1 Direction. 1 Doodle In the past few weeks, I haven't been following my own rule of taking a proper lunch break. Instead, I've been eating at my desk while working. Even though I have this time blocked off on my calendar and had successfully stuck to it for a long time, I still managed to fall out of the routine. This week’s doodle is a gentle reminder to myself to stop working through lunch. Doing it once in a...
1-1-1: The Independence Point
Hey friends, Hope you had a good weekend and enjoyed the Argentina and Cabo Verde game! Here’s this week’s 1 Doodle · 1 Do · 1 Direction. 1 Doodle "Give me some space to experiment", that was my labmate back in 2019 at the University of Florida. While he was the most senior PhD student in our lab, he was constantly being micromanaged. One of the moments when this conversation openly started between him and my PI got me thinking: when should a PI, a manager, or a boss start to shift from...
1-1-1: July Check-In: Your Next 90-Day
Hey friends, Hope you had a good weekend. Here’s this week’s 1 Doodle · 1 Do · 1 Direction. 1 Doodle We are in July, which means we are officially halfway through the year. July is a special month for me because it is my birthday month :) If you haven’t started your 90-day plan yet, this week’s doodle is a reminder to start now. I’m glad I began this 90-day planning practice, and I’m glad I’ve been reminding you every month to get on board, because it is never too late to create a 90-day...
1-1-1: The Focus Gym
Hey friends, Hope you had a good weekend. Here’s this week’s 1 Doodle · 1 Do · 1 Direction. 1 Doodle We are living in a distracted world, and screens are everywhere, squeezing out our attention. We have them on our wrists, in our pockets, on the walls, and on our desks. This makes focusing difficult because we are always just seconds away from something that can distract us. Comparing this situation to the past, there was a time when doing a job primarily involved physical activity. When...
Hey, I’m Ehsan /a-🌞/. Every Monday, I send one short email: 1 Doodle · 1 Do · 1 Direction. You will get one doodle I drew, one small thing to do this week, and one direction to carry with you. A 1-minute read, easy to apply.