Year: 2023
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While listening to the Career Advice episode of The Minimalist podcast, one of the hosts threw out a quotable phrase that stopped me from what I was doing (and compelled me to write it here and share it with you): “Sometimes, you have to give up to move up” Because there have been so many instances in our lives…
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But what often happens is we’ve become so focused on ticking off boxes and multitasking, thinking that crossing off everything on our to-do list is just what there is at work. What happens when all that has run out? I’ll make a new list! And so there’s now a little room for imagination because you’ve filled your…
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Living in an area with substandard and demoralizing housing, because living there was what I could only afford at the time, made me realize how our environment affects our way of life and perception of life. And with a meager income, I learned how to dance with lack and need. In times of distress, it’s…
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I first caught wind about how access to A.I. Tools is opening up to the general public through the Urgent Optimists community as they discussed face-search tools like PimEyes and A.I. art (text to image) like Midjourney. You might like to read the blog posts I wrote about face search and AI art: And in less than a year,…
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You’ll know where your devotions lie by identifying the things you serve and worship Do you like what you just found out?
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The comfort of being held reminds me of what it feels like to be a child growing up in a loving family. And so growing up and living away from family feels lonely. Yet, there are moments when I strongly yearn for a touch, an embrace, and some warmth. Just having a hand to hold…
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Today’s Big Social eerily resembles yesterday’s Big Tobacco. Scrolling is the new smoking. Scrolling Is The New Smoking, an article from forbes.com At some point, a nagging voice inside you must have whispered something in your gut, like, “Stop. This is not how you should be spending your time.“ But because the bright screens are…
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