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Everyday Stories, Lived

  • Replacing old habits

    Awareness has played a significant role in my on-and-off relationship with social media. So, if you’ve been reading some of my blog posts, like this one, and they resonate with you, you must be yearning for some habit changes like I do. So how to change one habit to another? The journal article Psychology of Habit (2016) shows that Read more

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  • What would the Philippines look like after a 30-meter sea level rise?

    Can you imagine a world where the place you live today would be underwater? From the Sea Level Rise explainer by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Sea levels around the world are rising because of climate change. As humans burn fossil fuels, we release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, which warm the Earth and the Read more

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  • Desalinating water, present stories, and the future climate

    While reading this ecological narrative about future climate landscapes, the writing about how to desalinate water reminded me of a documentary I watched this week. The documentary is about a group of people living on an island without potable water. I am troubled by what I have seen and wonder how much I don’t know Read more

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  • I am no longer bound

    Since I decided to stop checking Facebook every morning by disabling the app from my Android phone, which means that the icon isn’t visible in the app list anymore, I started looking for a substitute habit right after waking up. And I found the comfort of being connected to the outside world again—at least concerning Read more

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  • Cutting the wires

    The daily loud whispers of “Check me out with what’s new and never miss out” were becoming too much to bear. I know they will end up with animal videos again like they always do. The hours I spend scrolling for random content just eat away at my time and prevent me from doing work I value Read more

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  • Back-to-back virtual meetings

    During the pandemic, most of us maximized the opportunity to attend meetings without going out to them. We simply logged in to the meetings virtually, and we could actively participate in them. But does being virtually present also mean being mentally present? As we grappled with this newfound superpower, many of us found ourselves torn between two virtual meetings, Read more

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  • The gift of getting quiet

    When was the last time you gave thoughts some space to enter your mind? I don’t know about you, but most of the time, I make sure that there is music playing in the background at home and that my headphones are ready and fully charged when I go out to listen to podcasts while Read more

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Everyday Stories, Lived

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