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Everyday Stories, Lived

Work

  • Green office space

    After spending hours in front of our computer screens at work, it’s nice to see greeneries spread across what used to be an empty space in the building, making it a green office space. And it lifted my mood just after seeing it with so many plants when it used to be bleak and lifeless.… Read more

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  • When we pray (doors of opportunities and how to keep them open)

    As long as I can remember, the opportunities I was able to enter were doors opened after I prayed to the Lord of Israel. And from today’s sermon with Pastor David Sumrall, I was reminded that: 1. Doors of opportunities open because we prayed to the Lord. Keep on asking and it will be given… Read more

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  • “Sometimes, you have to give up to move up”

    While listening to the Career Advice episode of The Minimalist podcast, one of the hosts threw out a quotable phrase that stopped me from what I was doing (and compelled me to write it here and share it with you): “Sometimes, you have to give up to move up” Because there have been so many instances in our lives… Read more

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  • Thinking should be a major part of the job

    But what often happens is we’ve become so focused on ticking off boxes and multitasking, thinking that crossing off everything on our to-do list is just what there is at work.  What happens when all that has run out? I’ll make a new list! And so there’s now a little room for imagination because you’ve filled your… Read more

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  • AI tools and where to find them

    I first caught wind about how access to A.I. Tools is opening up to the general public through the Urgent Optimists community as they discussed face-search tools like PimEyes and A.I. art (text to image) like Midjourney. You might like to read the blog posts I wrote about face search and AI art: And in less than a year,… Read more

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  • Nighttime habits (a “Scrolling is the New Smoking” riff off)

    Today’s Big Social eerily resembles yesterday’s Big Tobacco. Scrolling is the new smoking. Scrolling Is The New Smoking, an article from forbes.com At some point, a nagging voice inside you must have whispered something in your gut, like, “Stop. This is not how you should be spending your time.“ But because the bright screens are… Read more

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  • Little room for imagination

    When we lack sleep, we can’t think well outside the things that need to be accomplished within a specific timeframe. And so we operate like machines: do this, do that, repeat. A cycle that becomes monotonous and even makes your mind atrophy. And the more you become a mindless cog in a system, one who… Read more

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