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Five tactics to scan for career opportunities
If you ever find yourself exploring the job market, you can treat these five posts as a mini-guide to help scan for opportunities. I wrote these with my tech marketing career experiences in mind. I think the insights are widely applicable: How to reach out to your network for opportunities: These approaches are useful particularly…
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Clarify what your career currently supports
Your career can help you solve one problem at a time. It benefits from having a primary focus. Here are some factors I have solved for, either through intuition or intention: Learning: When I started freelancing and grew that business into an editorial studio, I wanted to learn the ropes of starting a business. Earning:…
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The Middle Way
In Buddhist philosophy, the Middle Way is a practice that steers clear of extremes. It involves eight interconnected guidelines. You can consider the guitar string an analogy for the Middle Way: a guitar string needs to be just tight enough—not too loose, or too tight—to sound right. In the world of creative work, balancing art…
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Wisdom starts with walking
One of the more useful practices I’ve cultivated this year is treating stress like a pet dog. When I experience high stress, I imagine a dog who desperately needs to run outside to use the bathroom. It would feel cruel and irresponsible to keep them cooped up inside, and they would eventually take care of…
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Lest we forget
My grandparents survived the Second World War. I don’t know much about what they went through. We never talked about it. I imagine part of this silence involved protecting their grandkids from the horror. Maybe protecting themselves too, from revisiting the past and risking more trauma. By the time I was old enough to learn…
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Your routines are your opinions
There is a private library in the outskirts of Kyoto, called Kissa Fang. The books are meticulously organized. When you enter, a staff member hands you a wooden block. Any time you take a book off the shelf, you place the wooden block as a placeholder. This routine also enforces two opinions: read one book…