Life
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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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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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Late-night musings #9
The feeling of “everyone else is getting ahead except me” could haunt you into a series of unforgiving mental tirades until you get so tired of them that you succumb to sleep. And then, you wake up wondering what you’re doing wrong that everyone else seems to be doing right. Yet they say each of… Read more
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Even when change seems to be the only real thing left
These days, I’ve been wondering about the steps I should have taken, the things I should have done, and the person I should have become. But who gets a say in what kind of person you should be? Perhaps because when I was young, I had this image in my head of a person that… Read more
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Now, everyone knows everything
Ubiquitous information is just a search prompt away if you just know what you are looking for. And these days, I’ve been going back in time by watching documentaries about economics and climate change. How did we get here? I now have ideas on what must be done, although I don’t know how much power… Read more
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How not to be overwhelmed with unexpected interruptions?
There have been so many interruptions in my life lately, and what else should we do when they happen? Of course, we learn to go through the process and accept that there are things we can’t control, but at the same time, we understand that how we respond to these interruptions could spell overcoming them… Read more
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