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My new baby
I recently had a baby. I’ve always wondered what kind of parent I’d be one day. As much as we all love our parents, I…
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Ten steps behind
When I was 8 years old my mother enrolled me in an English-medium school in town… a school where everything was taught in English, including…
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The purpose of life is a life of purpose
I recently came across a stat that stopped me mid-scroll. People in their first year of retirement have a 40% higher chance of getting a…
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Everyone has lost their tastebuds
When I was 15, I did something stupid.The irony is, I thought I was being smart. I was in Grade 10, and we often had…
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You Don’t Lose People by Being Wrong
It’s surprisingly easy to make enemies. I use the word loosely here… I mean people who simply end up disliking you. And I’m becoming more…
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How to have original ideas
If you’ve been around computers long enough you might have heard the term “bug” – a flaw or error in a software program that causes…
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Whose Life Are You Actually Living?
Imagine you woke up in the middle of an indigenous tribe deep in the Amazon. You don’t speak their language. You don’t know what they…
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The people you’re trying to impress won’t be at your funeral
I almost died yesterday. Well, it’s hard to say whether I would have died or not, but I was held at gunpoint, and guns kill,…
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The worry isn’t AI – it’s kids not learning how to think
In primary school, we were subjected to the torture of writing essays on our first day back from the holidays. It was torture because the…
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What Moves You Moves Everything
“The body must be trained to match the mind. A cultivated spirit housed in a withered body is a contradiction.”— Yukio Mishima The Hostel Days…