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A Smart Traveler is a Smart Investor
Travel is an expense, often a luxury that bleeds the piggybank. However, I'd like to argue that the skillsets you develop to be a smart traveler are…
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Unjemarkable, yet still valid
CEO told me, "even people you look up to, they're also trying to figure life out". Nobody has it all figured out — having more questions than answers is…
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What I Sacrificed to Find Thai Gulf’s Pot of Gold
Until now, I'm still grieving. In the world of pirates, the hunt for golden treasures always requires sacrifice — guardians engulfing souls, biting…
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In Defense of Late Runners
In races, there are two chances you'll be closely followed by a VIP vehicle: when you're among the top podium finishers, or when you're the last one to…
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I Was Wrong About Success
Raised in a lower-middle class family, I always punched above my weight in pursuit of greatness. When results were favorable, I always weave a narrative…
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Playbooks and Outliers
If life/career is a game, there's always a playbook we can construct, but there's always out-of-the-mold outlier stories worth telling. This is why I'm…
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Vietnam Fly Out: No Stranger to Being Stuck
How it feels like to be stuck in Vietnam during the July 2024 Microsoft/Crowdstrike global outage
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How a liver threat forced me to quit
It was a critical moment for my liver, I had to make a choice. Is it worth tying up the laces of my career if I can't live long enough to relish the…
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Flying at Twenty One
Flying, for me, meant soaring high or achieving things. Back in the days, I could only ride planes in my dreams or when I closed my eyes. Cheers to…
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Jemarkable Evolutionary Creature
Pokemons undergo a lot of evolutions in their lifetime. Here's a story of how I turned from an egg into whatever creature I am now, and into whatever I…
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Seventeen: Letter from 17-Year-Old Self to My Quarter Life Counterpart
Adulting is when you take pivotal decisions that are often irreversible. A letter from my past says, "Now I'm on the brink of deciding what kind of…
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