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Rediscovering a new browser experience with SigmaOS
Last year, I started using Mastodon after Twitter (now X) stopped supporting WordPress integration. Since I still wanted my blog posts shared across platforms aside from Facebook, I created an account on Mastodon and started to learn the basics about the Fediverse—but I didn’t really go deep. Knowing how to work around the tech was Read more
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Letter no. 45
Dear reader from the future, Can you imagine a place filled with life-sized puppets to imitate a place filled with people? I just turned 30 and am already at a point in my life where I am considering raising my own family. I have even started to miss the children my husband and I still Read more
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Climate action: from the individual to the corporate
Looking back, I remember how we were to live by the reuse, reduce, and recycle campaign as a kid. However, as I grew up, I learned many untold stories about how not all plastics are created equal so not all plastics can be recycled. After reading a seven-year-old article as part of my Learning for Read more
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Try things out
What’s the antidote for “I don’t know what to do?” Try things out. Staying in a place of not knowing what to do is indeed a dark place to be. One memory I had was when I had a hint of where I should be going for my research idea, but I didn’t know how Read more
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“Never had the opportunity to go far”
One said to another, “I’ve heard you’ve been traveling the world! I’ve always wanted to be in all those wonderful places, but I have never had the opportunity to go far.” But who decides what opportunity comes along your way, anyway? I could remember all the days and nights I spent daydreaming about being “somewhere Read more
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Superficial productivity
Distractions are so good at making us live in the moment and forget that there’s more to reacting to every stimulus thrown at us. Perspective takes time. But how can we think about things if we never make the time to step back, embrace solace, and deeply think and make sense of what’s happening around Read more
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Understanding the basics of international relations from my IR friends
In college, I always thought about what my career would be like if I enrolled in international relations (IR) fields. It was a dream I knew I wouldn’t be able to have because I needed to take a STEM course for my scholarship. But a decade later, I had two friends who graduated with degrees Read more
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