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How can you bring your best to every situation when dealing with the pressure of high expectations? You know you can’t screw up when doing something that matters to you or when you really care about the outcome, and yet high-pressure situations make many people react poorly and lose their c...

The development of Android mobile apps is nothing new. We have been doing it since 2009, when the Android SDK was published. In the meantime, many APIs used for developing Android mobile apps were updated, but the general idea of app development remained. Looking at something as basic as accessin...

Lugged my guitar on a crowded tram during rush hour. It’s killing me inside that I can’t…move! Fingers getting stiff and cold and I know, I just know they are going to play tricks on me when an audience is watching. I want to shake some blood into them, but that would mean smac...

Cypress trees stand tall in the garden of an Islamist Sufi lodge in Istanbul, just as in 1841 when the Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen visited there and watched the dance of “whirling dervishes.” Almost two hundred years later, I was under the same trees, after watching, as An...

My last full-blown article was about celebrating the delight of continuous warmth outside — well, the celebration of Vancouver’s 17-day-long outrightly sunny weather pattern came to a climactic conclusion during the weekend as the hot climatic conditions feathered away & transliterat...

He knows nothing about how and what I feel. That person who called me on my privilege a few years ago. He was posting a string of videos of police brutality on his Facebook page. It was around the time of George Floyd’s death and there was an awakening that was necessary about racism and ab...

In Afghanistan, the Taliban is severely restricting basic rights, especially for women, according to a new Human Rights Watch report. The report shows the Taliban is making it very difficult for women to have equal rights. In 2023, the Taliban imposed more rules that took away people’s...

One of the questions i get asked most often is, “How can we thrive under capitalism?” The short answer, bluntly, is we can’t. And that’s by design. When you’re struggling to get basic needs met, or when you’re so busy working that you become burnt out, you don&...

I stumbled across some news today that really shocked me. I don’t normally talk about things like this on my platform, but what I found was so important that I had to share it. The story is about an incident that happened behind closed doors in the halls of power and revealed disturbing fac...

I’ve never had a scroll, and I doubt I ever will. But when I close my eyes and picture study in the Kingdom, everyone has a scroll. Luke 4:6–20 is one of those passages I experience visually. I’m right there as Jesus steps to the bimah in the synagogue, takes the sc...

Yesterday while scrolling through Instagram, I came across a striking photo of a girl. As I glanced at the comments section, I noticed some remarks about her body, suggesting she was too skinny and urging her to eat more for a healthier physique. Though most comments were well-intentioned and friend...