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jessa

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Everyday Stories, Lived

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This is a collection of stories and daily musings.

  • Facebook world vs. real world

    I don’t know how much of your life you put out on social media. But I think we both agree that the things we post on social media don’t always translate to what happens with our everyday lives. And that in every happy couple photo you see on your friend’s timeline doesn’t mean that they… Read more

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  • Our obsession with measurements

    Chasing the leaderboard sometimes undermines our ability to produce valuable content. Because instead of doing the work that changes a culture, we succumb to producing content that gets more likes, listens, or hits. And remember school? Some people, instead of studying to learn, they are studying to pass. And that’s becoming a problem as others… Read more

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  • Revisiting connections

    Ant trails. If you tried paying attention to ants before, you’d notice that they follow a trail to get across between point A to B, and so on. And the path less traveled by will eventually vanish, only keeping the one that they mostly tread. The same goes with connections we barely visit, be that… Read more

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  • Giving your best every time

    If you still ask yourself whether you need to give your best every time (or not), then you might find yourself out of job in the long run, or worse, be on the same job but lacking in motivation and zeal. Listening to a health worker giving the same instructions (again and again for different… Read more

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  • When opportunities come

    I’ve first read about the term ‘career capital‘ from Cal Newport’s book, So Good They Can’t Ignore You, and that you can build it this way (emphasis mine): “If your goal is to love what you do, you must first build up “career capital” by mastering rare and valuable skills, and then cash in this… Read more

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  • I’ve got a racket

    No. It’s not an illegal enterprise nor a loud and disturbing noise. When I say I’ve got a racket, I mean this racket. While scrolling through what’s new, I stumbled across this post by The Verge. And for some time now, I’ve been looking for a platform that will suit my needs, so it came… Read more

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  • Sin doubles down

    What impressed me from today’s sermon was when Pastor Sumrall emphasized how sin doubles us down. It’s not satisfied with making us captive. It also wants to bring us down. Truly, as John 10:10 AMP says, “The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy.” But isn’t it wonderful to know that… Read more

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