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Designing a self-directed learning network: work-in-progress v0.1

Designing a self-directed learning network: work-in-progress v0.1

core ideas, the process and an early prototype
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Winnie Lim

Experimenting with my life

I am taking a year off to experiment with my life. I am attempting to be a living experiment to see what is the outcome of living a life…
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Process
Lessons & takeaways from 6 months of experimenting with my life

Lessons & takeaways from 6 months of experimenting with my life

I don’t think I have ever felt better. Better, not because of any sense of exhilaration or progress, but better in terms of how I feel and…
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Winnie Lim
Learning to embrace the ambiguity and chaos of experiments

Learning to embrace the ambiguity and chaos of experiments

documenting the process, learnings and gifts till date
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A year of making anything I want

A year of making anything I want

the ideas, the process, the why and the fine print
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Experiment
Running as an experiment to reduce anxiety and facilitate healing

Running as an experiment to reduce anxiety and facilitate healing

Most days I wake up anxious. I didn’t label that uncomfortable feeling until I googled, “a general sense of impending doom” one day. A few…
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Designing a self-directed learning network v0.3

Designing a self-directed learning network v0.3

enabling infinite rabbit holes of learning: documenting the process and lessons
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Quitting coffee

Quitting coffee

I love coffee. I’ve been drinking coffee for over two decades. Over the years I have come across plenty of research nudging me to quit…
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Learning to free myself with making art

Learning to free myself with making art

I am one of those designers who can’t draw to save their lives. I wasn’t interested in art in school. My interest and appreciation in art…
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Thoughts
Things I am learning to do while recovering from workaholism

Things I am learning to do while recovering from workaholism

I am a recovering workaholic. I used “recovering” because I think I am still a workaholic. Before I quit my last full-time job two years…
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Winnie Lim

Truthfully exhausted

Today, I wanted to write a tinyletter. I send tinyletters only when I cannot bring myself to publish my thoughts in public. These are far…
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Getting healthy is really hard

When I first started on my year of experiment, a large part of it was health motivated. I was having painful dry eyes, chronic migraines…
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