Work
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The writer I hoped to become
When I was young, I fancied about becoming a writer. Becoming someone with the power to change a person with words seemed attractive to me, like marrying a storyteller and a change seeker together. And with the scarce access to the internet around high school, I sought knowledge on how to write that can touch… Read more
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Getting everyone involved early
If you’ve been working with people on projects for a living, then you’ve experienced the pressure of doing consistent updates as you move towards the deadline. And I think that’s fine, even better. From Seth Godin’s book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? he talked about the importance of thrashing early: to keep last-minute revisions from killing… Read more
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It takes a neighborhood to raise these goats
It’s been a year since I wrote about Dolly, our mama goat. Actually, when I wrote about Dolly, she’s the only goat we have. And I’ve been meaning to write you about how our neighborhood is generous enough to pitch in some hand (attention and enthusiasm) towards our backyard goats. But today’s different. While I… Read more
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Perhaps I shouldn’t have said “make every second count”
Forgive me for all the times I told you (if you ever heard me say) that we should make every second count. Why? Because the hours and the minutes and the seconds are human inventions that only matter to us, but not with the rest of what’s natural. From The wait of the world: The… Read more
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Getting off the pressure of time
…it doesn’t matter when you start work, so long as you get the job done. It’s about internal time, not what the clock on the wall says. Why we should be watching the sun, not the clock Working from home gave me so much liberty when I do the actual work without being stressed about… Read more
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The time we hold dearly
The more we synchronize ourselves with the time in clocks, the more we fall out of sync with our own bodies and the world around us. The Tyranny Of Time Don’t you want to break free out of the dictate of time, sometimes? I do. The thing is, I’m born into a family that eats… Read more
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Wins, contribution, and getting there
We celebrate wins, whether big or small. And as we bask ourselves in the joy of achieving something we consider worthwhile, all we remember is that we made it through. But, most of the time, the people who celebrate with us won’t entirely understand all the fears we pushed against just to be where we… Read more
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