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Introspective and analytical takes on the forces that shape how we create, work, and live.
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How to write something you enjoy when you don’t feel like writing (opens the original)
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For the past couple of months, I could only read and watch what I call “junk food content”; empty calories that one consumes purely for the dopamine hit. Life, health concerns, and work got in the way, and I didn’t have the headspace or patience for literature and films that nourished the soul. My bandwidth was so limited that on the weekends, all I could do was take short walks or jogs, consume junk food content, eat, then sleep. I turned into a typical adult: tired, pessimistic, old.In the mid
A Pitbull & Ne-Yo song got me through the year I lost my job (opens the original)
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It was a Wednesday and by ten in the morning I was standing on the pavement outside my office in Metro Manila holding a bag of my things. The tech company I worked for had metrics to hit. Letting me go was unfortunate but necessary, they said.I was 23 and it was the first leadership job of my life. My performance had impressed the higher-ups in the company, and I was promoted to marketing director. But despite my best efforts, our pipeline continued to plateau. I was expecting “the call” to happ
One Ritual That Successful Authors Often "Forget" to Teach (opens the original)
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You’ve probably read the same books on writing as I have.King’s On Writing, Le Guin’s Steering the Craft, and Hemingway’s letters about writing. Maybe you also own Save The Cat!, The Elements of Style, and On Writing Well.These books all tell you the same basic things: write every day, read a lot, find your own style, and get comfortable with rewriting. They talk about everything from how to write good sentences to where to find ideas.But there’s one thing they almost
On the Incomplete Happiness of Being an Adult (opens the original)
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I was maybe eight or nine years old when mother bought the first VCD player we owned. It was still a new thing in our rural town back then, and that VCD player came with a pair of handheld controllers and a burned disk called the “Super Game VCD 300 [sample]” that featured pirated versions of Nintendo or Konami games like Super Mario, Bomberman, Contra, and Donkey Kong, among others.<div class="captioned-ima
3 Writing & Life Lessons From My Favorite Essays (opens the original)
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