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Reflections on becoming

  • Do you belong in the middle class?

    The term middle class has evolved over time (you can read more about it here) and depending on your demographics, it could also mean differently than the rest of the world. From 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything: From an economic point of view, the middle class affords Read more

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  • I’ve got a question

    The more we ask questions, the more we get braver about asking more. Because, in the end, the one who wins is the one who leaves with a better understanding. It’s okay to feel if your question feels stupid, especially when you don’t have any clue about a specific interest or topic. What’s important is Read more

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  • Bedpans and old age

    When I was still in the first decade of my life, I met an old woman on one occasion, lying down on her bed with a bedpan nearby. I couldn’t grasp before what it’s like to be old (or be sick and old) and unable to relieve myself in the toilet anymore. Now that I’m Read more

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  • The dance of meeting and parting ways

    We think that the people we meet daily will remain where they are or that we will be around them forever. But once somebody chooses to change their environment, say for career growth that your circles won’t overlap anymore, you’d be confronted by the reality of meeting people and parting ways with them at any Read more

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  • Are people above sixty-five really “passive” these days?

    If you’re wondering where the concept of life stages learn, work, and retire (in order) came from, here’s a passage from my recent read: When the Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck implemented the first national old-age social insurance plan, he was attempting to “domesticate” the working class by offering them something to look forward to. Read more

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Reflections on becoming

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