If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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Writers should read non-writing books
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I finally took a bite of the fruit.
But Satan didn’t put me up to it.
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I love to see it.
Just a little birthday reflection.
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It is what it is.
This is not a reflection about myself. This is about Don Draper’s brilliance as an ad man. I just feel like talking about it. Well, maybe it’s a bit about me after all. Mad Men is one of the most brilliant TV series in the planet. But is the protagonist, Don Draper, brilliant as well? […]
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Two Kinds of Help
I was at Citi Hardware earlier, looking for a universal adapter. Noticing there weren’t any adapters left, I asked help from one of the store clerks. He checked the stash for a while and shrugged. “Looks like we’re out of stock, ma’am,” he said. Being the persistent and annoying girl that I am, I looked […]
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Busy is not always productive.
It’s important to take a break. Breathe for a while. In Japan, the essence of “Ma” or negative space is just as important as the occupied space. “Ma is the emptiness full of possibilities, like a promise yet to be fulfilled.” That means pausing between tasks is okay. Having downtime every week/month is completely fine. […]
Yesterday, I saw an article about the proper way of reading philosophy text. I didn’t realize there’s a reading strategy for that. Usually, I’d be frustrated at myself for going over and over one paragraph, trying to understand what it means. Turns out, according to the article, it IS normal to reread text about philosophy. […]
