Work
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Distracted mind
“How many more screens can I shove on my face?“ Have you ever had that experience when, while staring in front of your computer screen doing work, you gave in to the urge of reaching out to your mobile phone on the left—just to check the latest Facebook update—while the documentary you thought was interesting Read more
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Beyond quiet quitting and bai lan: finding a third way to work
I’ve been unsettled these past few months about my changing attitude towards work. I can’t help but see myself resonating with my generation’s disillusionment, and it’s escalating my anxiety about the future. I feel like I’ve been cheated right after university—”too educated” for humble jobs, yet somehow I’ve forgotten that our kind of work today Read more
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Cutting the clutter in nth drafts
While I was working on my draft for the nth iteration—because I couldn’t remember how many times I had reorganized and refined it—I felt a sudden resistance to deleting some information I found valuable, even when they do not really add more value to the narrative. Perhaps I just wanted to sound knowledgeable, having to Read more
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Cluttered mind
I can sense how my cluttered mind is affecting my ability to organize all my daily tasks—the tasks I have started but haven’t finished, tasks that are still waiting for closure. And so they overflow and get carried over to the next day, and the next, and the next. I think this is the cost Read more
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