Drawing Notebook Maps—The Austin Kleon Way
Today I want to share something wonderfully weird and interesting (as always!) by Austin Kleon—how to make a map of your mind. […]
It’s All in the Details
I’ve been following Bill Shander’s Data Visualization: A Lesson and Listen Series on LinkedIn Learning, and it’s one of my favorite courses on the platform for data visualization.
In this post, I want to highlight one simple process Shander mentioned that could help make big decisions about designing a data visualization: W-A-R-T. […]
Month 1 in Sweden: My shipment has arrived!
After carefully curating and donating hundreds of my books to the National Library in Singapore, I was left with 18 boxes that eventually left on a cargo ship to sail across the ocean to Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In those 18 boxes were almost 1,000 books and magazines, including stationery and art supplies.
From Rotterdam, they made their way to Huskvarna, Sweden, and arrived safely on 16 September on a drizzling Thursday night, exactly one month after departing from Singapore. It was 20:12 when I received the text message from Stefan from Drent informing they’re here. […]
Month 1 in Sweden
Today on 16 September is exactly a month after I had left Singapore with Mister Pops the cat and arrived in Sweden—in Huskvarna to be exact that is about 1.5 hours’ drive from Gothenburg. It’s wonderful to be reunited with Mister Bear!
Planning the move and executing it from start to finish had been a challenging but great experience. In addition to putting my administration and project management skills to good use (which is my bread and butter!), I have also learned many new things. […]
Will you choose to matter?
Most of us are already successful, but according to Seth Godin that is not the question. The question is, will you choose to matter?
I have a few ideas swimming in my head. And this has to do with a major life event I’m about to embark on in August this year.
Be Present
Rolf Dobelli said: Our brains cope automatically with all three layers of time—past, present and future. The issue is which one we concentrate on.
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What I have learned from Dobelli is that it’s not about avoiding making long-term plans, but once they are in place to focus wholly on the now. Not ruminating about the past, worrying or wondering about the future, but living in the present.
The Little Book Box by NLB
The Little Book Box is a book subscription service by the NLB targeted at young readers aged four to nine, offering a broad range of genres. It’s a carefully curated selection by the librarians suitable for children’s interests aimed at nurturing their love for reading. Read more about it here.
Although targeted at children, I’m very interested in the program and opted to subscribe to support this NLB initiative.
Death
One day—some day—in the future, this will be my home. I’ll be given the role of a corpse. I’ll be lying still under the ground and I’ll have a tombstone with my name engraved on it.
Until then, I’m quite optimistic that I still have approximately 40 years or so of life left in me. How will I use the remaining years of my life? What would I have done? Who would I have become when I am 84?