Tag: jessa blog
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Since I read about Hugh Howey from Seth Godin’s blog post, I subscribed to his blog and been reading him since. Then on August 2026, he wrote about a distraction-free writing tool he built which is free to download and use forever. It doesn’t need you to be online and won’t require you to create…
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Wow has it been six years already! If you’ve just recently subscribed to my blog, you may not know that I have started this domain while I was locked down in my apartment during the pandemic. Check my first blog post here. Many of us probably have started many things back then, like how I…
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So I just had my first week as a PhD student and I was way too obvious with how overwhelmed I was. Somewhere between asking about deadlines and milestones that did not exist yet, a colleague told me I was thinking about the ‘traditional PhD.’ Well, what is the ‘traditional PhD?’ It’s about having a…
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Back in 2019, I found myself talking with a conference attendee’s PhD supervisor from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, who was then trying to convince me to pursue a PhD, saying it would push me to become someone I never thought I am capable of being. At the time, the idea of pursuing PhD…
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via GIPHY The trouble begins when people confuse understanding something with endorsing it. This is the intellectual equivalent of refusing to learn what poison looks like because poisoning people is wrong. From This Is How To Live A Good Life: 5 Secrets From Ancient Wisdom I was too naïve to understand the faces of power.…
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It started with a list There was a time in my life when bucket lists were a thing. In 2011, while I was still a first-year college student, filled with hopes and dreams of what I could become, I wrote a list. And in that list, you can read about the things I want to…