Work
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What work?
It’s time to flip back the switch again! Toggle back to work mode, yes? And what’s impressive is how we can mentally put ourselves into work mode again just because the calendar said so. No more excuses not to work today. So, here we are, back to all the tasks we put on hold last… Read more
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Screaming deadlines
When I have to explain to people the kind of work I do, I can see in their eyes how it makes them bored, do you know what I mean? What do you do for a living? But I think when I talk about deadlines, they’d understand. Because most of us have been dealing with… Read more
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Brain on vacation mode
It’s that last day of work before vacation, and you’re probably feeling like on vacation mode already. But if you’re like me, with nothing to look forward to over the long weekend, you tend to even work overtime. Because we feel like if we don’t cover as much ground before vacation, we might lose the… Read more
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Collaborations and doing the actual work
Perhaps I said goodbye to the office many times in my life. It was actually a tension building inside me, more like a dread when I was about to graduate from college. I don’t want to be enclosed in an office space forever. And the pandemic normalized what I crave: I don’t have to go… Read more
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(Almost) a day without the internet — real story
The moment I arrived at the office, it felt like déjà vu. Because unlike this imagined scenario which happened on a Monday, I experienced a localized internet blackout on a Friday. And instead of receiving a public announcement, I got a headstart about what was about to greet me at the office, thanks to our… Read more
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Where our money goes
It’s funny how we convince ourselves to give into buying stuff because we deserve it, that we’ve earned it. That the hard work we’ve put into it should be paid back, so we pay ourselves with more stuff (and perhaps more food than we generally consume). But did you forget that our hard work was… Read more
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Are deadlines evil?
I don’t think so. Deadlines are fantastic because they provide our days structure. I think what’s evil is finding everything else worth doing except that one you’re supposed to. I think what’s evil is being lazy to get the work done. I think what’s evil is entertaining ourselves too much that we end up accomplishing… Read more
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