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How to scale a one-person business
If you're running a one-person business and need help scaling it, here's how you do it. I DID EVERYTHING when I started my first e-commerce business…
May 29
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April 2023
I moved to Canada (Part 2)
(Read part one of the series here.) I met a Sri Lankan at the Vancouver airport. Asela (pseudonym) was on our flight. He was planning to join my wife's…
Apr 24
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How to blow your own horn
I'm terrified of posting something on social media. That's how it has been as long as I can remember. Even though I had a Facebook account for a while…
Apr 4
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March 2023
I moved to Canada (Part 1)
There was no one to pick us up from the Vancouver airport. It was raining, and although we wore coats, the cold was unbearable. It's been 28 hours since…
Mar 27
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I used to work in a library
From 2012 to 2014, I worked as a customer service officer at the British Council Library. It was mostly on weekends as part-time because I was doing a…
Mar 13
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February 2023
Memory dividends
My wife and I fought a lot about my photo habit (or lack thereof). Whenever we went out or met friends, she wanted to take so many photos. I was the…
Feb 26
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I don't know
Admit it. We don't know shit about most things and are barely informed to give an opinion about something. But whenever someone poses a question on…
Feb 19
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You don't have to be world-class
Most of us won't be the next Tiger Woods or Michael Jackson. Or Ernest Hemingway or Oprah, for that matter. And that's OK. Here's the thing. Being…
Feb 12
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The difference between a "like" and a "heart"
Don't I look sexy in this photo? Time to share it on Facebook. Open Google photos and click edit. Increase brightness but not too much. Looking good…
Feb 5
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January 2023
Why don't we do things on time?
"I'll be there within 2 minutes." It takes 30 minutes to get there! "Sure. Give me an hour and I'll send the report." You send the report after 2 days…
Jan 29
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Roller door
We moved to a new house in 2004. The ground floor is my dad's workshop. Being the self-learned engineer he is, my dad decided to fix the roller door. He…
Jan 20
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