Year: 2026
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I kept thinking about how I reached more than a thousand followers on my first website (which was memorialized here), and that was before most of my circle camped out on Facebook/Instagram (they were mostly on Twitter then). A thousand followers. And I’ve been blogging for almost 6 years now, and I only have ~10…
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While reading about the Larkin Oil Case Study on decision analysis from the book Making Hard Decisions, I started to search online for documentaries about oil spills and ended up watching a documentary about the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill from 60 Minutes: And my interest led me to a full documentary about…
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I chose to begin my day by not checking what’s going on with everybody else (or at least what the algorithm wants to show me) online. It feels good to take charge of my day instead of being ruled over by the incessant pings and unwanted information. Do I really have to be informed about…
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I was too excited to put into practice what I just learned from Part 1 of Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!: immerse in creative work instead of hogging content. So I ended up spending my whole day revamping my blog and aligning it to who I see myself in the next five years. And instead of mindlessly…
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I’m still reading Chapter 5 of Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! but my fingers were itching to tap and type what I have been thinking, so I dragged my body to my laptop. Here I am. I am in my early thirties and most of my days are spent working from home, coordinating with people in the…
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It took Novo six months after adoption to tolerate me. Now, he just flicks his tail. That’s his way of saying: I see you, and I’m choosing to be patient. Sure, his temper eventually goes off if I don’t stop when I should. There’s a point of no return. I always know where it is,…
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