jessa

Reflections on becoming

  • 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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  • 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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Reflections on becoming

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