Category: Blog
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My work as a freelancer has changed in ways I didn’t quite anticipate. When I first encountered AI tools at work, my job was straightforward—I did all the prompting, fed in the inputs, and let the AI generate the writing and the images. I was the one steering, doing half the work while the AI…
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Today, I decided to declutter my phonebook and ended up deleting ~200 contacts. I was even surprised that I didn’t recognize some of the names anymore. Some of the phone numbers were ones I acquired and saved back in college—numbers of classmates I haven’t been in contact with since graduation. I can’t imagine how different…
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Once I started spending less time on social media, I made time to watch documentaries again. It’s like subscribing to Reader’s Digest stories, but in a motion picture. I remember how, as a kid, I used to enjoy reading stories from the Reader’s Digest subscriptions my dad left behind before he died. Through those small…
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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…