People will hide offensive language and demeaning comments under the escape of “issa joke” only to gaslight you in exchange for you addressing an important fact: hurtful humor isn’t funny.

After graduating, it was hard for me to understand “who I am” now that my identity wasn’t associated with the things I’d accomplish in school. It dawned on me that there’s no need to panic in scrambling to figure out who I am because who I am is already here and now; if anything, it’s just to make that explicit.

It would be really unfortunate to spend your whole life chasing a salary only to realize that the you sacrificed the things the salary was supposed to allow you to buy to get it: happiness, time with people you care about the most, and freedom. I prefer to live the life I truly want to or die trying because that sounds like a lot of a better deal than to do lying.

I signed up for a matchmaking service to video chat strangers. A solution to a global pandemic reminiscent of ‘00s internet chatting. Some people overestimate what power being in person has while missing the grounds and foundations for lasting meaningful relationships that can happen from anywhere in the world.

Stop policing women for crimes that they didn’t commit while holding men off from the consequences of the ones that they did

Sitting or travelling alone can feel really uncomfortable because you might think others are concerned with what you’re doing, or not doing, way more than they actually do. They don’t care! And if they do, who are you to be in their personal business: their thoughts. Let go, have fun, and do what you want that makes you happy because life is way too short to be constricted to living a life that’s palatable to strangers.

Taking the time to realize that content creation speaks to me as a lifetime mission

Money, beyond 70k apparently, doesn’t buy happiness. So, why then we often sacrifice our happiness to pursue it?

I’m making progress in learning to ask for help from the right places. It’s a practice of both humility and courage.

Time management is an artful science. Using an urgent/important Eisenhower matrix can help you differentiate between what to do, decide, delegate, and delete. But how do you determine what’s important in the first place?