Tag: Sense

A CNBC article written in mid-January revealed that tech companies have laid off more than 70,000 employees in the last year — Google announced it would lay off 12,000, Microsoft is cutting 10,000 workers through March 31, and Amazon is planning to cut more than 18,000 employees.&nbs...

There are 195 countries in the world at this moment in time. Seven continents. Yet somehow, I couldn’t name one as my home. I spent half my childhood growing up in Germany, the other half in the UK. I have lived in Australia at 18 and Canada at 25. I have travelled to over 26 coun...

There are 195 countries in the world at this moment in time. Seven continents. Yet somehow, I couldn’t name one as my home. I spent half my childhood growing up in Germany, the other half in the UK. I have lived in Australia at 18 and Canada at 25. I have travelled to over 26 coun...

Do you wake up in the morning refreshed? Or do you wake up already feeling defeated by your long to-do list? If it’s the latter, you’re not alone. Constant headlines reveal that more adults than ever are struggling with mental health issues, feeling exhausted, or are st...

There are 195 countries in the world at this moment in time. Seven continents. Yet somehow, I couldn’t name one as my home. I spent half my childhood growing up in Germany, the other half in the UK. I have lived in Australia at 18 and Canada at 25. I have travelled to over 26 coun...

The proliferation of desk-bound knowledge work, coupled with a long hours work culture is having a deadly effect on our health. According to the CDC, one in four adults is physically inactive, meaning they have not participated in any physical activity in the last month. Living a sedentary l...

To write is to be misunderstood. Gosh, not very optimistic but it is realistic. We should constantly ask, “Did my words make sense?” “Never mind what it says, we know what we mean,” said an optimist about something we were reading. Yes, we did know what it meant. We rea...

I was born in a mononational country Armenia where people deeply cherish unity and family. We thrive on endless gatherings, we find delight in discussions, sharing, and conversations, we love advising each other. Our hospitality burns us alive while our guests are with us. We are a like minded commu...

Consider this listing, and this listing, both for a lovely house in the picturesque town of Blackheath, just at the outer edge of the Sydney commuter radius. The house is on the market for rent, and for sale, simultaneously, with the owner clearly keen to test both markets and see where th...

Goodbye to the daily commute and worries about job security. Persistent time pressures are a thing of the past. Deciding at our leisure what we want to do and when we want to do it. Relaxing coffee morning with friends on Monday, Tuesday, or whenever. Turning a blind eye if the weather isn’t t...

In the movie The Matrix, Neo, the main character, is scouring the internet to discover clues about the matrix. He receives a message on his screen to “follow the white rabbit.” Neo meets a woman with a white rabbit tattoo, whom he follows to a rave where he meets another wom...

Anyone following my Memoir series knows I dabble in graphic design. Indeed, if I may be so bold, I was once — when I practised more — very accomplished in Photoshop et al. Nowadays, I’m a bit out of practice — but I still get called upon when the church needs a poster, a b...

My strong sense of justice is one of my favourite things about being autistic, and many autistics feel similarly. This is understandable, and many autistics are fantastic social justice advocates. But our appreciation for this trait sometimes leads people into ‘Aspie supremacy’ type thin...

For week 2, we were required to make sense of and coagulate the information we gathered and assimilated through the research conducted over the last couple of weeks. Before the last Ideation and Prototyping class, we had on Tuesday, we as a team had the opportunity to have a candid conversation with...

A new Ernst & Young survey found that there is a link between flexibility and belonging for global workers. This is important in a continued tight labor market where we already know that a sense of belonging also increases retention, creativity and productivity. Yet, 75% of global resp...

California has problems — from drought to fires, to a bankrupt pension system, to crises of housing, homelessness and unemployment. The only “solutions” our politicians have offered are more regulations, higher taxes, and the declaration of a permanent state of emergency. The bi...

The delay ironically coincides with Black History Month. A month-long celebration honouring African Americans’ achievements. While this commemoration is a Western concept that originated from the Negro History Week in 1926, it increasingly resonates across Africa as we honour the accomplishmen...

One of my favourite things to learn in high school chemistry was how temperature worked—the average kinetic energy of substances being responsible for how hot or cold we might feel something to be. This was simple enough. Fast molecules that bump a lot = hotter. Slow molecules that don’t...

One of my favourite things to learn in high school chemistry was how temperature worked—the average kinetic energy of substances being responsible for how hot or cold we might feel something to be. This was simple enough. Fast molecules that bump a lot = hotter. Slow molecules that don’t...

Multiple inner minds’ brain waves can become harmonized. On the other hand, two mice with asynchronous brain pulses are acrimonious with each other. How is it that two individuals can sense and interface with another’s neuro-electrical state? Human brains are significantly more comple...