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Can an FBI Career Make You Happy?

If you want happiness that comes from job satisfaction, the FBI is your place

4 min readSep 6, 2023

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Can an FBI Career Make You Happy?

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Foreign Travel Vloggers in Bangladesh: Why Carrie Patsalis Stands Out

Finding the secret sauce the British travel vlogger used in her content and took the Bangladesh travel vlogging sphere on YouTube by storm

10 min readAug 11, 2023

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Foreign Travel Vloggers in Bangladesh: Why Carrie Patsalis Stands Out

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Why Family and Religion Are Key to Emirati Happiness

My interview of Dr Louise Lambert, a registered psychologist from Canada and an associate professor at Canadian University Dubai

12 min readJan 28, 2023

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Finland Stories

How Happy Would the Nordic Countries Be Today Without Historical Equality?

They had a head start in the pursuit of happiness long ago, without which they would not have been here today

10 min readJan 23, 2023

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Can Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Breakfast Scandal Reporting Explain Finnish Happiness?

Let the journalists do their job without fear. You may get a happy nation.

24 min readOct 31, 2021

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Can Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Breakfast Scandal Reporting Explain Finnish Happiness?

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An Open Letter to the Finnish Girl Who Made Me a Finn

Today is the fifth anniversary of our connection

29 min readMar 30, 2022

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I Interviewed the Woman Who Walked Around the World

Things do not make us happy. Experiences and connections do

3 min readJan 27, 2022

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The New York Times Rejected Me. Every Newspaper Should Follow Their Model

And I had it again this year. But I loved it the way it came.

3 min readJul 29, 2021

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Finland Stories

An Open Letter to the Finnish Man Who Made Me a Finnophile Writer

He turns 56 today

8 min readJun 20, 2021

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Journalist Mahmudul Islam with his Finnish boss Jukka Tapio Blom in Vallila restaurant

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How You Can Be Happy Like Malcolm Gladwell

Writing makes him the happiest man in the world despite being unmarried at 57

11 min readJun 12, 2021

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Malcolm Gladwell giving a lecture, holding a piece of paper in his hand

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Mahmudul Islam

Mahmudul Islam

Writer, Journalist. Unabashedly Finnophile, Anglophile. Editor of Finland Stories. Open to writing/editing tasks: r2000.gp@gmail.com

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