Posted in careers, communication on September 29th, 2009 Comments? »
23:52:37 reyhan: For me interviews are me interviewing them
23:52:51 Boon: totally
23:53:06 Boon: i so need to write a blog post about that
23:57:58 reyhan: Yes
23:58:06 reyhan: You totally should
Why do you attend interviews? Do you do it just because it’s what you need to do to get a job? Or do you see it as an [...]
Posted in careers, communication, life, relationships, relocation on September 13th, 2009 Comments? »
The Loneliness of Enduring a Change
I met an old friend for lunch today. She was talking about making a big change in her life, and we were talking about how scary that whole process is. We talked a long time about the sort of ups and downs you go through when you make big changes [...]
Posted in blogging, careers, communication, social media, writing on August 10th, 2009 Comments? »
Just found out my article was mentioned in Moleskinerie. So, welcome – readers from Moleskinerie!
I find that it’s almost impossible to do anything without penning down my thoughts in a physical diary or journal of some sort. I now have about four ongoing journals I keep notes on, and I didn’t think it was necessary [...]
Posted in careers, communication, culture, social media on August 5th, 2009 Comments? »
I dreamt that I was interviewed for a job by Google a few nights ago. I had this impression that Google was the sort of intelligent, caring, but serious tech company that I could be comfortable contributing to the world through and with. I think this was a way my mind was responding to the [...]
Posted in blogging, careers, communication, relationships, social media, twitter on January 31st, 2009 Comments Off
I’ve been on Twitter for awhile now but I’ve only started using it extensively as a:
social graphing tool
messaging tool
friending tool
Twitter works best in two ways:
avid follower
ambient intimacy (credits to Cennydd Bowles for introducing the term to me)
Avid Follower
An avid follower is someone who uses Twitter to see what other interesting people are up to. Recently, [...]
Posted in careers, communication, networking, opportunities, people, relationships on January 10th, 2009 Comments Off
I’m past term one at school, and of course we’re not in undergraduate school anymore. Everyone here has a mindset of getting a job or getting a better job. So why can’t some folks shake off the idea that you do meet people in the workplace and that it’s just not that hard?