Blog
This is a collection of stories and daily musings.
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Urgent Optimists: an invitation
Hello, everyone! If you’ve been here for some time, perhaps you’ve read in one of my blog posts how I am part of a community, Urgent Optimists. If you have missed it, here’s what the Urgent Optimists community does: We’re bringing together people who want to feel authentically hopeful about the future, and who are… Read more
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Just pick one
Listening to a video instruction made for professionals (supposed to be busy people), the recurring advice was this: If you don’t have the time, just pick one. And perhaps, we’ve forgotten the magic of learning even one new thing and the power of saying yes to only one thing in the face of so many… Read more
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What led me here (podcasting)
I’ve never produced any new episode on my podcast for almost half a year. Why? Because I needed to keep the lights on. However, I’ve already begun writing for the whole season (well, at least half of it), with bits of ideas here and there. If you can see my rough drafts, they looked like… Read more
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Do you want to rekindle friendships today?
Don’t wait for them to reach out to you. Take the initiative instead. You’d be surprised how they’d respond, and you’ll feel like you’ve never really stopped caring about each other after all. Read more
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Chapter 6 from Station Eleven
After watching a replay of a book reading at the Urgent Optimists, I really find the book Station Eleven riveting. It even hits differently now that I am reading it two years into the pandemic. Though the pandemic in the novel is much worse that what we went through, I still find Chapter 6 (An… Read more
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Happy World Future Day!
The World Future Day is celebrated every 1st of March (wherever you’re reading this). But what I really want to share with you is that out of 56 countries, I am one of the 100 scholars for the Urgent Optimists. I won’t hear about it if I haven’t had taken the Futures Thinking specialization in… Read more
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“Be careful what you put out there”
You’ve probably heard about the saying, “The best place to hide a dead body is page two of Google.” Actually, when I read that from this book, it made me grin. Why? Because I seldom go to page 2, unless page 1 did not satisfy me at all (which is rare). How often do you… Read more
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