Tag: Reflections
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Same Shit, Repeated.
Sometimes I think we just go through life reminding ourselves of the same shit over and over again. Call your mom. Eat your veggies. Don’t steal. But our brains and souls are so scattered, we need to be reminded of the same shit over and over again. And how things resonate with us, when and…
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49
My reflections @ age 48. I have already written a lot about how the world has completely changed for us. I quitted CASETiFY in January. I spent all my time at the school, hoping to get it ready for us to hand it over to the team. Then the church bought our place, and we…
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Diary, Dramatized by AI
My colleague Flora shared that she would ask AI to tell stories about her own life. It’s like a diary on steroids. She feeds it random notes about life events and asks it to turn them into an exciting story. She says it’s fantastic because the writing helps her appreciate her own life more. I…
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Class of 2025 Graduation
Jing has graduated. The school survived 8 years. nor cried so hard with Maggie. And I stood on the side, witnessing everything. It’s emotional, magical, and hard. I feel lonely and anti-climatic. If every graduation is going to feel like this damn this job is going to be hard. The bad news is, these feelings…
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Fundraising Concert 2025
We just finished the fundraising concert for the school. The school is in a precarious position. Our lease is ending and we are looking for a place. Our 2nd graduating class is leaving the school soon. The team is close to fully formed, and the founders are transitioning into a new way of working. There’s…
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The Missing Knight
I think I have it wrong. Instead of trying to find ways to get me out of ruts, I need to do more of things that I think will help me fall into ruts less frequently. My wife was trying to figure out what triggered the latest episode of me being in meh-mode. She wondered…
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Contrasting Mental Spirals
Since I left my last corporate role and returned to working on our own Waldorf school, the thoughts that loop in my head have shifted. This contrast in how my mind spirals has helped me stumble upon ways to manage my mental health—and to make life less bad. At my last job, I had trouble…
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2024 In Random Things
Hamilton and musicalsJing’s continuous evolutionMom’s healthTrump, Musk, and Big TechAITide Free and Gentle Hamilton and MusicalsWe went to the UK in the summer. I came back after a week, and they stayed another three weeks. It was a sunny and eventful summer. Jing went to two summer schools. One was an art-related day camp, and…
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2024 in Books
STATS: 44 books33 Audiobooks11 Kindle books3 unfinished books2.3x listening speed0 Chinese booksE in Diversity score (7 Female Authors) CATEGORIES: Business & Money – 11Biographies & Memoirs – 9Science & Math – 6Politics & Social Sciences – 6Self-Help – 5Literature & Fiction – 3History – 2Christian Books & Bibles – 1 Awards: Most Enjoyable:Disrupting the Game:…
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2024 in Podcasts
I love this annual ritual. I love looking back at all the things I have listened to. I love remembering how the year went by. And boy, what a year 2024 was – all the elections around the world, the Olympics, the VR glasses, the unstoppable rise of AI … And July and August were…