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Reflections on becoming

  • Screaming deadlines

    When I have to explain to people the kind of work I do, I can see in their eyes how it makes them bored, do you know what I mean? What do you do for a living? But I think when I talk about deadlines, they’d understand. Because most of us have been dealing with Read more

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  • Brain on vacation mode

    It’s that last day of work before vacation, and you’re probably feeling like on vacation mode already. But if you’re like me, with nothing to look forward to over the long weekend, you tend to even work overtime. Because we feel like if we don’t cover as much ground before vacation, we might lose the Read more

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  • Our desire for autonomy

    Can you still remember when we were asked to stay at home at the peak of COVID-19? Were the government-imposed lockdowns scary when we first heard about them, thinking that we couldn’t go out of our houses anymore and couldn’t do whatever we wanted to do in life? Well, it did happen, and sure enough, Read more

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  • Collaborations and doing the actual work

    Perhaps I said goodbye to the office many times in my life. It was actually a tension building inside me, more like a dread when I was about to graduate from college. I don’t want to be enclosed in an office space forever. And the pandemic normalized what I crave: I don’t have to go Read more

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  • (Almost) a day without the internet — real story

    The moment I arrived at the office, it felt like déjà vu. Because unlike this imagined scenario which happened on a Monday, I experienced a localized internet blackout on a Friday. And instead of receiving a public announcement, I got a headstart about what was about to greet me at the office, thanks to our Read more

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jessa

Reflections on becoming

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