I Fought a Blizzard to Save Animals
My Friends, I love what you share about your cultures and celebrations. It seems I’m welcome to tea in your villages and cities. Snow stories are a small way I thank you for the gifts of beauty from your country. Today my little spot of the world warmed from the below-zero temperatures. As I write it is 2 degrees (-16 C), that’s still cold. The blizzard is over, and the wind died down. Nights like this bring back images of sitting around a wood stove. I’d put my gloves, wet from shoveling a p...
I Fought a Blizzard to Save Animals
My Friends, I love what you share about your cultures and celebrations. It seems I’m welcome to tea in your villages and cities. Snow stories are a small way I thank you for the gifts of beauty from your country. Today my little spot of the world warmed from the below-zero temperatures. As I write it is 2 degrees (-16 C), that’s still cold. The blizzard is over, and the wind died down. Nights like this bring back images of sitting around a wood stove. I’d put my gloves, wet from shoveling a p...
Being the Lonely Workaholic Boss
I’d just been promoted to a managerial position after years of hard work. I’d been a grunt financial analyst, grinding my way through endless recurring tasks, externalities, changing priorities, difficult clients, and was eager to do something bigger and better. This was my moment. Almost immediately after starting my new role, I noticed a huge shift in the social dynamics at the office. I’d been so friendly with my coworkers. We did lunch together all the time. Then, immediately after the pr...
Being the Lonely Workaholic Boss
I’d just been promoted to a managerial position after years of hard work. I’d been a grunt financial analyst, grinding my way through endless recurring tasks, externalities, changing priorities, difficult clients, and was eager to do something bigger and better. This was my moment. Almost immediately after starting my new role, I noticed a huge shift in the social dynamics at the office. I’d been so friendly with my coworkers. We did lunch together all the time. Then, immediately after the pr...
7 Realistic Strategies to Rewire Your Brain
Mental health issues turned my brain to mush. Through the recovery process I accidentally learned about neuroplasticity. A big guy named Tony Robbins mentioned it in a speech. Neuroplasticity is a fancy term that means your brain can adapt and grow based on new experiences. It means you can think new thoughts, make new decisions, and rewire the neural pathways in your brain. This works in negative ways too. If you suffer from brain damage the brain can change and grow to deal with the impact....
7 Realistic Strategies to Rewire Your Brain
Mental health issues turned my brain to mush. Through the recovery process I accidentally learned about neuroplasticity. A big guy named Tony Robbins mentioned it in a speech. Neuroplasticity is a fancy term that means your brain can adapt and grow based on new experiences. It means you can think new thoughts, make new decisions, and rewire the neural pathways in your brain. This works in negative ways too. If you suffer from brain damage the brain can change and grow to deal with the impact....
How I Won Singapore’s GPT-4 Prompt Engineering Competition
Last month, I had the incredible honor of winning Singapore’s first ever GPT-4 Prompt Engineering competition, which brought together over 400 prompt-ly brilliant participants, organised by the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech). Prompt engineering is a discipline that blends both art and science — it is as much technical understanding as it is of creativity and strategic thinking. This is a compilation of the prompt engineering strategies I learned along the way, that push a...
How I Won Singapore’s GPT-4 Prompt Engineering Competition
Last month, I had the incredible honor of winning Singapore’s first ever GPT-4 Prompt Engineering competition, which brought together over 400 prompt-ly brilliant participants, organised by the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech). Prompt engineering is a discipline that blends both art and science — it is as much technical understanding as it is of creativity and strategic thinking. This is a compilation of the prompt engineering strategies I learned along the way, that push a...
‘Medicine’: Is sober dancing the new ecstasy?
I’m on a boat in Amsterdam. It’s 8pm on a Friday and the walls are already wet with condensation. The topless man next to me is sweating profusely as he roams the floor on all fours, techno beats spilling from the DJ booth next to him. Meanwhile, I am exploring the air with my hands. Neither of us have consumed a drop of alcohol. An hour previously, our eyes were closed and we were breathing in (2, 3, 4), breathing out (2, 3, 4), noticing the moment and setting our intentions for the next cou...
‘Medicine’: Is sober dancing the new ecstasy?
I’m on a boat in Amsterdam. It’s 8pm on a Friday and the walls are already wet with condensation. The topless man next to me is sweating profusely as he roams the floor on all fours, techno beats spilling from the DJ booth next to him. Meanwhile, I am exploring the air with my hands. Neither of us have consumed a drop of alcohol. An hour previously, our eyes were closed and we were breathing in (2, 3, 4), breathing out (2, 3, 4), noticing the moment and setting our intentions for the next cou...
