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Reflections on becoming

  • News that lean in one direction

    News that is reported the same by news outlets on both the left and the right is probably true. If you only see a story reported by news sites that lean in one direction, it probably isn’t true. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Read more

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  • Back on the farm

    Back on the farm

    Growing up in a small city, I always wondered how it’s like to live in a big one, with tall buildings everywhere you look at. But now that I am living in the metro with almost concrete everywhere, I can’t help but wish to be back home. To be away from the never-ending noise and Read more

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  • 2020 rhymes with 2008 and 2009

    History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Mark Twain I’ve been listening to Harvard Business Review IdeaCast podcast since early this year, and I decided to begin with their first episode, which aired in 2006. After hours and hours of interrupted playback and juggling in-between podcasts, I thought I accidentally played 2020 the moment Read more

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  • Misleading reports and missing contexts

    Reports about famous people and other newsworthy topics are either wrong or misleading about 60 percent of the time, often because they lack context. Wait a few days before forming an opinion on anything new, just in case context is missing. It usually is. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Read more

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  • How to assess whether to have a meeting or not

    In the middle of your workday, you receive an email telling you that the office will have a meeting tomorrow before lunch. And then, you tell yourself that the meeting could have been just an email. At the back of your mind, you know that the meeting was just an excuse to have a free Read more

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Reflections on becoming

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