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Reflections on becoming

  • Tightening the belt

    I always considered it from one perspective—restricting spending to manage your finances. But while listening to an HBR podcast about austerity’s big bait-and-switch, I learned that not everyone has the same pants. This means that cutting back on non-essential expenses may look different for different people, and my hardship may also differ from yours. Read more

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  • It’s getting hot in here

    When I visited the digital public square (in my case, Facebook) in the last couple of weeks, I kept seeing posts about heat index infographics and people complaining about how hot the days were turning. The heat index is the “feels-like” temperature, telling us how the combination of heat and humidity makes things hotter than the actual Read more

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  • Letter no. 40

    Dear reader from the future, Can you remember a world where it is still bearable to go outside on a sunny day? I can only look back to how cool afternoons were when I was five, the trees shading our house from the tolerable outdoor heat. I can recall the memories in tinted blues and Read more

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  • I can squeeze you into my schedule

    Can you remember the last time you told yourself you could squeeze a task into your day, thinking you could accommodate just another one with the right kind of “time management,” only to be overwhelmed by so many things on your to-do list? From Time Management Won’t Save You: A major source of stress for Read more

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  • The Jevons Paradox

    I never knew about it until I read it from The Ministry for the Future. Here’s a snippet from the book explaining what it is all about (Chapter 40): Jevons Paradox proposes that increases in efficiency in the use of a resource lead to an overall increase in the use of that resource, not a Read more

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Reflections on becoming

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