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Startups and Frugality
Your life is your first venture. Like a startup, you should be intimately and viscerally aware of why and how you spend your money and time. As in…
Chao Lam
Jan 18
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December 2022
Atomization and Reconfiguring
This week’s newsletter from Chris W ’s Unknown Unknowns was just filled with one mind bomb after another. After falling down many a pleasurable rabbit…
Chao Lam
Dec 17, 2022
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Contrarian Bets
I’m a frugal person by nature and have spent many a happy break just whiling around the Reddit board r/frugal looking for lifestyle tips to save that…
Chao Lam
Dec 3, 2022
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November 2022
Learning, narratives, time and halloween
I just finished Write of Passage, a writing course conducted on Zoom. The amazing thing is I felt I was learning more in the last 5 weeks than any 5…
Chao Lam
Nov 16, 2022
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Pieter Levels is leveling up again
If you come across a time traveler on Twitter, what questions would you ask? This is how I feel about Pieter Levels aka @levelsio Levels predicts that…
Chao Lam
Nov 10, 2022
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Allow students to fix that C to an A!
My daughter was crying after school. She had flubbed her math test. Math was her favorite subject in middle school. Now, she hates math. How did it come…
Chao Lam
Nov 2, 2022
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October 2022
The Good Heist
It is high time work itself gets blown to bits and then reconstituted piece by piece so that we all do the bits we love and are good at.
Chao Lam
Oct 27, 2022
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No one beat a path to my door
“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson It is December 1999 — I am on top of the world. Two months…
Chao Lam
Oct 19, 2022
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Chao, what is your Next Small Thing?
Are you a fan of Studio Ghibli’s Japanese anime? Did you watch Spirited Away yet again? Were you wishing to adopt the adorable cat, Moon, from Whispers…
Chao Lam
Oct 18, 2022
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