Tag: Working

No, my job is great, I think many people would kill to be in my position and I have so many things to be thankful for. But when I started threading the waters of UX in 2016, this wasn’t the profession I thought it’ll be. It wasn’t this noisy, loud, and attention-seeking.&nbsp...

What to do after retiring? Is there any future for developers after 40? Does the industry have a place for older developers? These are the most common questions in every developer's mind. So, these questions often come up when I talk with/interview developers for my article. Different d...

Most people never get rich because they spend too much time making money. They’re so focused on the day-to-day rat race that they never stop to think about whether or not there’s a better, easier way. If hard work was the key to success, then most people would be unimaginably ...

I came across a tweet by former Netflix engineer Alex Castillo that reflects on the value of caring at work. Alex recounts how the team he had just joined at the streaming giant discovered a broken legacy app on a Friday and managed to fix everything by the following Monday. The twee...

My life and business have changed when I paused and asked this one question: Am I truly working “in my business” or “on my business”? It was a paradigm shift! This seemingly innocuous inquiry has profound implications that can shape your business and, more importantly,...

I came across a tweet by former Netflix engineer Alex Castillo that reflects on the value of caring at work. Alex recounts how the team he had just joined at the streaming giant discovered a broken legacy app on a Friday and managed to fix everything by the following Monday. The twee...

Most people never get rich because they spend too much time making money. They’re so focused on the day-to-day rat race that they never stop to think about whether or not there’s a better, easier way. If hard work was the key to success, then most people would be unimaginably ...

Boost Your Day the Batch Way Imagine this: instead of doing ten different things in ten hours, you finish them in five. Sounds like magic, right? Well, this magic trick has a name, and it’s called batch working. What’s Batch Working? Imagine baking. Instead of making one cookie ...

Just over a year ago, I transferred into a work-from-home (WFH) role at Amazon. I’ve spent my entire career there in warehouses, working in, or directly supporting, the operation. I was excited about the WFH opportunity. It was novel and I was looking forward to learning a new skillset. Mov...

Most ways of working still rely on functional hierarchy, where managers make decisions and workers do the work. Managers know they can’t change this work structure, but they can transform its effectiveness without asking for permission and without needing a budget. Before exploring the chan...

Most ways of working still rely on functional hierarchy, where managers make decisions and workers do the work. Managers know they can’t change this work structure, but they can transform its effectiveness without asking for permission and without needing a budget. Before exploring the chan...

Lilly Lai is a Chinese/Anglo artist who has lived and worked on Darug and Gadigal land of the Eora Nation At 18 I got offered the role of Business Administration Trainee (BAT) at the MCA. The position was advertised as an opportunity for young people wanting to begin a career in the arts sector w...

As seen in the picture below, and the title above, I’ve been working on developing my characters. Both generally and specifically for current projects. I’ve been sketching out ideas, putting together different ideas, the one below isn’t finished it’s just something I’m ...

Attention mechanism is the core component of transformer models and plays a crucial role in LLM models. Let’s consider the task of translating the sentence “the cat ate the mouse” from English to French. One approach is to use an encoder-decoder model, a popular choice for sente...

I’ve been using my iPhone 15 Pro Max now for a little over a week and I have barely a bad word to say about it. The odd thing is though, it feels as if it’s me alone that has had zero problems. Looking at Twitter (X) and forums many users seem to have been beset with issues. I was ...

If you followed along, I had decided quite early I wanted to rent a studio apartment in Paris and live there as an adult. After graduation, and while working in Bangalore, I was looking for reasons to travel or move abroad as my weekend side project. With my experience and profile, I figured I sh...

Inprevious blogs I covered studying course by course, since I came to the end of my education at the University, I shall cover what I learnt, year by year. I had a great time with the University where I learnt a lot about myself, about the rich world of geology and seen many pretty landscapes. Th...

Eligibility Criteria of TTPS Category A: persons with annual income reaching HK$2.5million or above, or its equivalent in foreign currency, in the year immediately preceding the date of application Category B: graduates from the world’s top 100 universities (Bach...

In our last article, Eric revealed the Klook’s startup story and shared his tips on running a traveltech startup in Asia. In this article, it’s all about the team culture and how you can be a part of the Klook team. Klook, a 3-year-old Hong Kong-based traveltech startup that just rais...

Many symptoms indicate the poor condition of the washing machine. You must carefully pay attention to the following indications that make it necessary to resort to washing machine repair services in Toronto: ● The appliance is not turning on due to an unknown reason. ● The device stopped w...

Most people never get rich because they spend too much time making money. They’re so focused on the day-to-day rat race that they never stop to think about whether or not there’s a better, easier way. If hard work was the key to success, then most people would be unimaginably ...

Retirement is a great goal, but giving up on the momentum of life is not. Once retired, we still need to work to maintain our health and relevance while forging ahead with aging. Many people feel that retirement ends one’s life’s work. While work and retirement seem interrelated, reti...

I’m a new writer on Medium, and this is my first story. However, I’ve been writing for a long time, mainly professional content. I aim to share my stories with like-minded readers and writers and learn from diverse experiences. I’ve read many articles since I joined and enjoyed ...

Retirement is the №1 financial goal of most working Americans. But for many people, this goal is seemingly based more on aspiration than actual action. According to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, an estimated 50% of those who retire at the age 65 will be unable to maintai...

Happy new(ish) year everyone! As we kick off the new year, I have been fortunate enough to be thrown in a client space where equity, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I) are constantly at the forefront of our working topics. I wasn’t hired to be the ED&I expert on this engagement, howeve...

Do you recall the era when women in the workforce were synonymous with the secretarial pool — typing away on their typewriters, fetching coffee, and answering phones? It’s 2023 now. Women aren’t just answering phones anymore; they’re making the calls — as CEOs, scientis...

After publishing a handful of blogs on Medium, I got habituated to writing. I started dedicating a couple of hours a week to writing. However, the topic for my next blog lingers in my mind while writing the current blog. My writing does not reach a larger audience base but definitely a handful of fo...

From 18–22 I spent four years working at McDonalds. I worked a mix of part and full time over these years, always failing to find a ‘better’ job. I never advanced up the rungs, never was a manager, never achieved anything of significance in my time there. Basically I was the abs...

The international agenda, over the past decade, has emphasized the value and importance of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) for addressing some of our critical environmental and ecological challenges — biodiversity, water, climate adaptation and resilience[1...

Inhis book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904) German sociologist Max Weber introduced the term work ethic. Weber correlated the rise of European capitalism with Protestant values and theological Calvinist doctrines of dutiful work charact...