Category: Notes
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A Somber National Moment
Last Monday, National prints and other media reported unprecedented court approved FBI search of the former Pres Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and reportedly recovered highly classified information stored from the residence. Now its being reported that the former Pres. Trump is under investigation of potential violations of US Espionage Act. This is indeed a somber national […]
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No One Answers Their Phones
Recently I came across this 2018 The Atlantic article Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore via the Pocket App. In the article, author Alexis C. Madrigal argues about disappearing telephone culture with some history of discovery of telephone, early telephone etiquette, imperative to pick up the phone when it rang before the discovery of the caller […]
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Scorching Temperature in Twin Cities
Starting to-day, temperatures in the Twin Cities and across the state is forecasted to be around 100 degree or above. “A heat advisory is in effect for much of central and southern Minnesota from 12 p.m. Monday through 6 p.m. Tuesday. Spotty storms will be possible Tuesday”, writes the MPR News. National Weather Service is […]
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FOMO
FOMO ( fear of missing out) is a feeling peoples experience when they feel that they are missing out new experiences, trends, friends, wealth, etc. that other peoples have, according to Aarti Gupta, psychologist and Clinical Director at TherapyNest in Palo Alto, California, who recently spoke with NPR. FOMO is about having thoughts on missing […]
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Outsider
In his latest article in The Atlantic, Arthur C. Brooks, a contributor, suggests his readers to Find More Ways to Be an Outsider. Though Dr Brooks encourages people to be outsider, he warns that being outsider is not easy. Being an outsider can be lonely and difficult, especially if all the strangers around you seem […]
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Some Personality Types
An article on The Guardian headline asks Are you anxious, introverted or just a ‘highly sensitive person (HSP)’?. The author of the article David Robson writes he himself is an HSP person, including some celebrities like Alanis Morissette, Kanye West, Nicole Kidman and Lorde. High sensitivity is often presented as a key contributor to depression […]
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103 Advises From a 70-Year-Old
In a blog post here, a 70-year-old Senior Maverick at Wired and author Kevin Kelly of California, has listed 103 bits of advice I wish I had known which I found interesting. Of the 103, I have selected below, a few of my favorite ones. From Kelly’s 103 Bits of Advice No one is as […]