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Everyday Stories, Lived

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  • Less talk

    Growing older feels good because I am learning to draw back and let things be. My younger self would have been more willing to put up a fight. It sure takes wisdom to choose one’s words. Read more

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  • 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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  • Information parity and divisive misinformation

    If both of us have access to the internet, it means that we both have access to a lot of information, and no one has an unfair advantage over the other. We can abide by the same rules and dance to the same tune. But then, whatever we consume from the internet could also sway Read more

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