Focused and Diffuse Thinking: Why Your Brain Needs a Day Off
What a day. I can’t think. I can’t write. Even choosing something to watch on TV feels like a major effort. Playing solitaire on my phone is about all I can handle. Have you...
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Battling Career Fear: How to Conquer Despair, Doubt, and Defeat
Let’s just go ahead and say it: there’s nothing quite like a global pandemic to strike fear in the hearts of even the most secure female career professional. Whether you’ve just graduated from college,...
Steps to a Successful Long-Term Remote Work Routine
When you imagined working from home, you likely thought of the many perks that come with it. You wouldn’t have to commute anymore, risk catching the seasonal office flu or spend your time packing...
Four Tips for Negotiating a Flexible Work Schedule
The U.S. is potentially on the verge of a mental health crisis with nearly half of Americans reporting the coronavirus crisis is harming their mental health. And as recently reported, a federal emergency hotline...
Insights about China I Gained as an American Journalist
Why should any of us look behind the next hill, or across the border, or across the ocean, into the warm living rooms of people who don’t look or think or talk as we...
“I Live On My Own In a 26′ Camper.”
I wake up. Not because of an alarm. Not because I successfully completed the five to six 90-minute sleep cycles my 22 year-old body usually needs. What stirred me from my (probably) mid-cycle sleep...
Covid-19 Look Like 19 Pounds? Here’s How to Lose Covid Weight Gain!
It’s not just you, lots of us have struggled with putting on the “Quarantine 19”—those unwanted pounds adding on while staying at home during the pandemic. Comfort foods, constant access to snacks, and Grub...
Story of a Hacker: Pursuing What I Love Made Me Grow a Second Layer of Skin
I started my career in programming 13 years ago. For the past three years, I have been a full-time hacker. However, I prefer calling myself a cybersecurity expert, as the word “hacker” is associated...
Four Tips to Grow Your Leadership Skills
What Makes a Great Leader? A great leader is someone who instills feelings of inspiration and motivation over fear and anxiety. This person does not seek authority, but instead, thrives off of empowering others to...
You’re Writing? 3 Things All Writers Must Know
Well, actually, I’m writing… I find myself saying that a lot lately. In the past few months, writing has become an unexpected side hustle – one more thing to balance in an already busy...