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Everyday Stories, Lived

  • These are my people

    Seeing the people I grew up with made me realize that they became a part of making me me. No, we don’t just move on in life and forget all the people we used to spend our hours with. We don’t just ignore the everyday people living in the background of our internal voices and daily Read more

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  • Have you been over eating lately?

    Perhaps, you lack sleep. From The surprising links between what you eat and how well you sleep: When we’re awake for longer, we do need more energy, but not that much – sleep is a surprisingly active process and our brains and bodies are working quite hard, Prof Walker says. Despite that, when deprived of Read more

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  • Tiny living spaces (how homes affect the way we live)

    Have you seen the “coffin homes” of Hong Kong? If you haven’t yet, you might want to take a look here. I have heard about these homes before. But seeing the photos from the article makes me wonder what it really means to have a home. I can remember the struggle of finding a place Read more

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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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  • Our concept of work

    Our concept of work

    From the blog post And when is the shift over? If you sell your time as the measure of the work you do, the work is over when the shift ends. Clock in, clock out. If you sell your output as the measure of the work, your work is over when the inbox is empty. 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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  • Letter no. 21

    Dear reader from the future, Would you believe that I am still writing this in the time of a pandemic? But things are starting to shift, from isolation back to openness, and yes, mobility! Can you imagine how lonely places are without kids running around? And as restrictions are being lifted across cities in our Read more

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jessa

Everyday Stories, Lived

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