Category: personal
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Fuck Content
A pandemic and a career pivot later, in a time where everyone is curating content, I’m shooting straight. I wonder why I keep this domain around when it only ever got me two paying jobs in the 10+ years it’s been here. But alongside social media, now that we can easily summon bots to make…
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Currently: I’m learning to sail under a raincloud.
I learned some months ago that a corporate communications campaign I worked on bagged a gold and a silver medal at an industry awards show. With the nature of freelance corpo-comms, I can’t say who the client is on this platform. But what amazed me is that I left advertising in 2013 — and this…
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We aren’t talking enough about what it actually takes to survive pandemic
Every chart about covid care talks about the physical symptoms. 10 days in quarantine, as of writing, is the standard treatment time for covid. You may experience flu-like symptoms, difficulty breathing, and/or lack of taste and smell. If you are unvaccinated and/or with a weak immune system, or if covid travels downwards to the respiratory…
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20 Things I Picked Up When My Dreams Crashed
-This is a very bad beginning. Everyone is off at a bad beginning. I was awful at advertising and even I wasn’t a great teacher with you and the batch before you. Forgive yourself quickly, keep moving, learn as you go. -We are in a state of flux. If you can, take care of yourself…
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Non-Linear Thinking on Paper
A senior calligrapher I met thinks that women are not naturally disciplined to do calligraphy. Grit, he believed, was something that came naturally to males. Females were more inclined to not push the pen and quit before they put the strokes together, females were more inclined to take shortcuts. Of course he’s wrong. Some of…