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Keeping score
Ever since I started playing badminton, I have trouble keeping score. Whose serve is it? How many points? I came to a relieving aha-moment while I was finishing a puzzle. Another way to think about short-term memory is that you have a finite number of pieces to work with. Together, the pieces form a narrative…
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My preoccupation with changing the world
I have a hard time with relaxing to enjoy entertainment. I don’t like movies. Books are a bit better. Overall, I can’t sit still for long periods of time. I cry easily. I am too influenced into doing things that sound cool in the media but are quite dumb when played out. I went to…
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Without pointing fingers
I find, as I get older, that making friends requires more effort and more intention. On one end of the spectrum, it is easy to go out for dinner with acquaintances as an adult. However, the kind of person I seek in my life must mean much more than that. Can he show up in…
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my M.O.
I helped run a high school badminton tournament a few weeks ago. It was one of my first times running the league planner software, and I kept on messing up the match-ups between players. It was somewhat humiliating. But my saving grace was that I recovered from the failure quickly. A saying coined by Zuckerberg…