Jun 11, 2022Eighteen Epiphanies from My First French ConferenceMy stomach felt upset as I raised my hand, looked at the 15 Francophones around me, and started slowly stuttering some broken French. 😶 This was very common at Santé Mentale au Sommet — a French conference about mental health that I was lucky enough to attend! …Travel7 min readTravel7 min read
Jun 8, 2022Lessons from my First Design SprintI sat there in silence, not knowing what to say. 😶 My friend was telling me about the everyday challenges of a cancer diagnosis. I was shocked by all the stories that don’t make it to the news. …Design8 min readDesign8 min read
Mar 28, 2022List of Things to Be Grateful ForHealth My eyesight works or I have access to technology that help my vision. Before the 1300s, no one had glasses. Yet alone technology to fix blindness! My hearing works or I have access to technology that helps my hearing. Isn’t it amazing??? …Gratitude4 min readGratitude4 min read
Feb 18, 2022How Sheep, Cows, and Goats Kill Tens of Thousands of SpeciesIn a hurry? Skim to the heading you like :-) Or see this summary. Airports, ports, transport of all sorts are desperately blockaded. 🚧 It’s the last attempt to prevent the spread of the deadly virus from Asia. This is not the story of COVID-19. It’s instead the plot of…Nature14 min readNature14 min read
Dec 30, 2021Lessons from the Hardest Year of My LifeWhat I learned in 2021 — In the last 1.5 years of COVID, I spent 85% of every day alone in my house. This hurt my mental health and relationships a lot. I lost the best friend I’ve ever had in 2021. I want to concisely share some practical lessons I learned this year. …Personal Development18 min readPersonal Development18 min read
Nov 21, 2021All Greatness Comes from SufferingThat’s a quotation from Naval Ravikant. I read it while going through the hardest period of life I’ve been through. My relationship with my best friend had collapsed and I just woke up to feel worthless and hopeless every day. 😶 But when I read that quotation, the hopelessness faded…History13 min readHistory13 min read
Aug 26, 2021My 18 y/o friend is her school’s unofficial guidance counsellor😁So I asked her for tips on how to be helpful! — But seriously… every time we talk, she tells me a story of another student asking her for help. There are five themes I learned from her stories: Recognising when to help How to comfort well How to listen well How to encourage others How to build trust I’ll cut the…Personal Development4 min readPersonal Development4 min read
Aug 18, 2021Looking Out the Train WindowI’ll see lots of sights rushing past. Like this: One farm goes by. The next windmill. And so on. And so on. Everything is always changing. Nothing is fixed. Not me. Not the world. Not other people. And I’m not really looking out the train window. Everything is going on…Meditation2 min readMeditation2 min read
Aug 6, 2021The Alien MeditationImagine you’re looking out a window at the night sky… — It’s not full of fancy colours like in the movies. But it’s intriguing. So imagine you stared at just one tiny ‘pixel’ in the sky. Smaller than a square centimetre of space! If you looked close, you’d see something like this:Personal Development3 min readPersonal Development3 min read
Aug 3, 2021Playing with PlotsI never believed that saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words…” — That was, until three weeks ago. That’s when I came across this 1,950-word article that describes one picture: 💭💭💭💭💭💭 Actually stop to consider this for a bit 💭💭💭💭💭💭 💭💭💭💭💭💭 Actually stop to consider this for a bit 💭💭💭💭💭💭 💭💭💭💭💭💭 Actually stop to consider this for a bit 💭💭💭💭💭💭 This diagram…Philosophy8 min readPhilosophy8 min read
