Category: 4. Live Less Bad
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What is Empathy without Proximity?
I can’t figure this out. Can you have real empathy for experiences that you have never had? I don’t have a single black friend. If empathy is the ability to step into someone else’s shoes, then, say, growing up as a black person is like wearing a pair of flip flops, and in my world,…
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🗞 The Newsletter Binge 🍽
I have been on a binge lately. I started subscribing to Tim Ferriss’ 5 bullet Friday about a year ago. I didn’t subscribe to any another newsletter, until I came across David Perell’s interview with Austin Rief and Alex Lieberman, the founders of Morning Brew. The podcast episode had all the feel good factors: the…
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Blog Posts, since 1996.
I decided to leave Medium, set up this website, and put almost all the blogs I have written in the last 24 years here. Some asked me why I am putting up a blog again. Do I want traffic and followers? Is it just an ego thing? After going through most of my posts, I…
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The Churchillian Drift
We are suckers to smart sounding famous quotes that are fake “BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD.” Gandhi. It’s empowering when Gandhi reassured my insignificance could make a difference in this vast universe. “WE HAVE TWO LIVES, AND THE SECOND BEGINS WHEN WE REALIZE WE ONLY HAVE ONE.” Confucius. This woke me up,…
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我決定了參加「人瑞奧林匹克 」
我相信大部份人都會認同長命百歲並不一定是件好事 …
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Soul-Piercing Lessons of Life
From time spent listening to my daughter plays the violin Whoever invented the violin was a jerk. The thing was designed to be shoved into your chin and to tattoo a hickey (google “violin hickey”) onto your neck. It makes soul piercing screeches that redefine the essence of dissonance. It is impossible not to detest it.…
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The Case for Cheap Micro-Successes
I needed a boost for my ego. enlivenworks.com, the website of my little leadership coaching gig, is up. It was built with WordPress, an unnecessarily more complicated option, instead of WIX or Squarespace. I wasted hours on it, because I was too proud. I was good at building websites. I built the site of a Student…
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6 Words for the Next Decade
That might make our suffering slightly more bearable . Source: https://www.libertaddigital.com/internacional/mundo/2015-03-26/tatooine-el-planeta-de-star-wars-a-punto-de-caer-en-manos-del-estado-islamico-1276544142/ On the last day of this decade, I couldn’t help but to be lamely sentimental. The following six words are very trite but alas this is who I am. After all, I am the kind who believes in the force and adores Bambi. Confusion, Conflicts,…
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2019- How I Turned into a woo-woo Chia Seeds Munching Luddite.
2019 is setting. A few personal “Yearly Awards” to summarise 2019: Prelude:Person of the YearNew Habit of the YearTrashed Habit of the YearBook of the Year Epilogue:Mistake of the YearQuote of the YearWord of the YearInteraction of the Year PRELUDE: Persons of the Year: Tim Ferriss and Krista Tippett It is hard for me to say…
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鍛鍊糊塗☁
「大智若愚」和「扮🐷食🐯」。