It’s Okay if You Seesaw Over Time

Part 3 of 3 techniques to reduce social anxiety and improve mental health — There’s a big difference between worrying about something and worrying about something and beating yourself up about it. Anxiety is magnified when it becomes circular, i.e. when you hate yourself for being anxious. …

Part 2 of 3 techniques to reduce social anxiety and improve mental health — Most people think more about their morning coffee than about you, and that’s fine. That’s because everyone is the central character of their own story, with people around them being various levels of NPC — non-playable characters. Since you’re the main character in your story, you may have a tendency…

Part 1 of 3 techniques to reduce social anxiety and improve mental health — If I told people in my life that I’ve struggled with social anxiety, they’d be surprised. I fit all the outward signs of an “extrovert” — outgoing, energetic, participates in discussions with enthusiasm, likes big conversations, enjoys being the centre of attention, and more. I’ve also said very dumb things…

The most popular new year resolutions in the world are fitness-related. They are also the most commonly failed resolutions. Here are the most common reasons people fail at fitness: They don’t account for a net loss in happiness For any new habit that you’re bringing into your life, you’re re-budgeting your time. It doesn’t matter if you’re the busiest…

Improv, short for improvisation, is a script-less performance art. In an improv performance, all or most things are made up on the spot. The most popular version of improv is improv comedy — where performers act out scenes, come up with punchlines, or play games based on prompts from the…

Something, never mind what or why, clicked into place on September 14th, 2020 and I started writing a daily journal. Before that, I’d been writing for two and a half years with no regularity or structure. On that day I started taking it seriously. There was no moment, no big…

The cover image contains the mnemonics you need — Here are some mnemonics: They’re is short for They are. An apostrophe is ALWAYS a contraction*. It is a replacement for one (or sometimes more) letters, e.g. I’ll is short for I will, and the apostrophe takes the place of wi. …

It was the summer of 2020, and the world was still getting used to the WFH life. The data science team at Zendrive was doing the same, but we had a helpful distraction on our side. An interesting chicken-and-egg problem had come up. We received a business requirement for a…

An insensitive and unhelpful privilege — I’m very privileged to have a roof over my head and food on my table. I live a fairly comfortable life, and regularly add to my savings. I also have a father who has been regularly contributing to his life savings for decades. These two facts put me in the…