Prior to working on [1] Stepcase full-time, Leon Ho was Manager of Software Engineering at Red Hat, responsible for the internationalization deliveries in Red Hat products. Leon managed a team across regions in Australia, Japan, China and India. Leons division added support of 22 languages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and migrated new internationalization technologies into products.

He founded Stepcase’s [2] Lifehack in 2005, a blog on productivity and personal development, which became [3] #40 most popular blog in the world. Stepcase has been featured by major medias such as [4] Time Magazine, [5] BusinessWeek and [6] Hong Kong Economic Times.

1. How do you define happiness?

Enjoy what you have in your life. Don’t force yourself to demand for more.

2. On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your happiness now, versus when you were a child?

8. I enjoy my life as much as when I was a child. I have great friends, family, work and lifestyle.

3. What do you do on a daily basis that brings you happiness? (and how consistent is the feeling of happiness throughout your day)

There must be some ups and downs in my daily life. I treat them as normal cycles.

4. What things take away from your happiness? What can be done to lessen their impact or remove them from your life?

Mostly from external environment like relationships between people.

It’s normal. You can’t lessen their impact or remove them from your life.

5. What do you plan on doing in the future that will bring you even more happiness?

This quote describes my plan: “If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.” — Kitaro Nishida. The more you demand for happiness, the less happiness you may get. Instead, live a life like a child.

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To get more info about what the Happiness Project is and isn’t, please visit the [7] Introduction Post. To see a running list of all participants, which I will be updating as things happen, please visit the [8] Happiness Project Page.