Blog & Writing

Things of 2023

January 25, 2024

2023 was a wild, beautiful and eventful year, and as I reflect back on it, I'm grateful for it all. Here's my annual review for 2023.

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Things that are saving my life right now: Q4/2023

December 11, 2023

On my quest to start writing a bit more (and use my blog more regularly), I’ve been borrowing a format I love from one of my favourite podcasts The Lazy Genius.

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The red-cheeked embarrassment of writing on the internet

October 25, 2023

It was 2006 and I had just turned twenty when I wrote the proverbial “Hello World” post in what ended up becoming my music blog “art-star”...

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Resetting my space for a new week

July 21, 2023

I used to have a much more organised way of doing things, and my routines and habits were almost set in stone (I remember fondly back to the day had an 800+ day meditation streak, in spite of conferences, intercontinental travel, and Taekwondo exams). With a toddler, everything is different and more prone to become chaotic. And yet, I still try to find time to reset my space each week, and here’s how.

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500 days of redesigning my website

May 2, 2023

I’ve had some form or another of a personal website for almost as long as I can remember. Over time, it was many things: A journal, a place to keep track of my exhibitions, an art portfolio, a quirky experiment. A couple of years ago I decided to — for the first time in years — rethink the whole concept of my website...

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On gentle maintenance

April 14, 2023

We live in the future, and I hate the future.

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Things that are saving my life right now: Q1/2023

January 31, 2023

On my quest to start writing a bit more (and use my blog more regularly), I’ve decided to borrow a format I love from one of my favourite podcasts The Lazy Genius.

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Things of 2022

January 10, 2023

My yearly retrospective: A look back at everything that made 2022 great, and less great; sad, sweet, surprising, exhausting.

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What I'm reading this quarter: Q4/2022

November 14, 2022

A collection of small reviews and descriptions of my longer reads in this quarter (Q4, 2022).

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Five lessons from running a (remote) design systems book club

November 1, 2022

Last year I gifted a design systems book I had been reading (“Laying the foundations” by Andrew Couldwell) to a friend; a few months later, she suggested starting a mini book club so that she’d have some accountability to finish reading the book.

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The weekly shutdown routine

October 4, 2022

Having control over my schedule, especially as someone who works part-time, is sometimes just not possible. One of the things I can and do have control over, however, is how I wrap up the work week. Introducing: the weekly shutdown routine!

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Things of 2019

February 19, 2020

I’ve had this post sitting in my drafts for the last 6 weeks, and it was finally time to clean it up, add some photos, and hit “Publish”. Here’s my annual review for 2019.

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Things of 2018

January 1, 2019

An overview of the things I did, loved, read and listened to in 2018.

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