Don’t waste my time

Don’t waste my time. As much as I am a patient and empathetic person, one of my biggest pet peeve and one that gets on my nerve is when I can smell you’re wasting my time.

Don’t waste my time when your timeline was a fail to begin with.

A year in perspective

Tomorrow marks the last class of my law school.

A little more than a year ago today, when I made the decision to apply and to return back to graduate school for a second time, never would I have imagined what 2019–2020 would have given me. Never in my wildest…

Your personal litmus test

Where you have high tolerance is also where you have your blind spots.

Everyone has a litmus test. This is your tolerance level for whatever situation you may be in.

The golden snitch

What we can learn from Harry Potter

Seizing the opportunity — I refer to this as the “golden snitch moment”.

The golden snitch is the fast miniature flying ball that zips around the quidditch tournament in Harry Potter. It’s fast, it’s quick, and…

The power of networks.

The power of networks. When I was younger, despite being as strong academically than any other applicant and has superb extracurriculars, I was turned down again and again because I didn’t have a network. As a second generation Canadian, I couldn’t ride on the coattails of my parents like…

The “marinate”

The term “marinating” is not unknown in the cooking world. We recognize the value of drenching something in another thing, then to spend time on it, in order to get a good product at the end. This is a tried and tested method and one that we acknowledge “the longer the better”.

X hits the spot

How a generalist can be niche too.

As someone who works in technology, and studies technology, I naturally end up talking and reading a lot on technology.

The headline of “will AI take over our jobs” is a topic that i’m very familiar with — whether…

Oh, the people you’ll meet!

The types of people you’ll meet. Are they nice, smart, funny, rude, or mean? Above all of these aforementioned descriptions, in my life, the types of people that I’ve met really fell into 3 categories:

• The positives (e.g. nice)

The 0 record issue.

Keeping a log, a journal, a record of something is a good practice. It’s a tool to remind you of something. What’s that something? It can be

• Reminding you of what’s been done (e.g. tracking tasks)
• What’s been wrong (e.g. issues tracker)

It’s you, not me.

It’s you, not me = a blame game.

Before you say that, did you think about whether it’s truly them and not yourselves? Humans are selfish. Humans like to think they’re the best.