May 2018
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Cracks

Imagine you have a vase, perfectly hand-made by Japanese skilled workers. You love this vase so much so you polish it every day. Meticulously shining it and taking care of it, making sure no dust is able to settle on the vase. One day, you accidentally drop it and it splits into several pieces. You Continue reading
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I’m coming home

I’ve been homesick for a month A week from today, I’ll be hopping on a 19-hour trip to finally go home I’ve missed you, Richmond Time flies by so fast But this week has been the slowest week for me I’m ready to go home Continue reading
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Lack of structure

When you work full time, 9-6, fully structured days, 5 days a week, like starts to become routine, and sometimes you need weekends that are unstructured. Weekends where you can just do whatever you want to do, whether that be watching Netflix, sleeping extra long, going for a walk, writing, or just thinking. In a world Continue reading
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[Book Review] Freakonomics
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[Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explains the Hidden Side to Everything] – by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt was a great book. It was different. And I liked it. Freakonomics makes you look at the world in a different way. The book explores the real reasons for the 1990s crime drop, information asymmetry, real estate agents, Continue reading
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When to start?

It is much more important to start, rather than worry about when to start. If you think about it, the majority of people fail before they even begin. They experience paralysis of analysis—unable to make a decision due to the myriad of options now available in today’s society. If you simply start, no matter how prepared, it doesn’t Continue reading
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Biosphere 2
There is this place called the Biosphere 2 located in Arizona. It is the largest enclosed ecological system. It is based in Arizona and is now a research facility. Biosphere 2 was originally meant to demonstrate the potential of closed ecological systems in supporting and maintaining human life in outer space, such as colonizing Mars/ other planets. Continue reading
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Altruism

How do you measure altruism? America donates over 2% of its GDP to charity every year. But how does a person make the conscious decision to simply give money away, to charities or people or countries that they will never know? Economists, scientists and mathematicians alike have all tried to devise algorithms or formulas and Continue reading
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Dark Matter

Dark matter is the matter in our universe that we cannot see It’s hard to detect, and it doesn’t interact with light But it’s still matter, and we know it exists Just because it’s not visible, doesn’t mean it’s not real, because that is how all good ideas start: a fabrication from nothing. Good Luck. Continue reading
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