From a simple coda in the song Tingin Ngiti, comes the birth of another song, Tara Kiss. They are related yet independent. I felt like I wouldn’t have given it justice if it were to remain within the main song. It’s a story about how we, as a couple, are wooing each other after an LQ (lovers’ quarrel).
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Very often it is when we are not seeking an answer that the information serendipitously presents itself, but when we consciously try to find something out, it remains stubbornly elusive, hidden in sources we have not yet imagined to consult.
Serendipity and information discovery
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Feedback is high leverage because it’s cheap for you to give, and provides high value to the recipient by giving them information early. Their alternative is having to guess at their own performance and behavioral impact.
How To Criticize Coworkers
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The optimal environment for personal growth of is definitely one where the employee clearly sees the opportunities for an interesting career trajectory.
The 3rd dimension of the matrix organization
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People think, learn, behave, and experience the world around them in many different ways. Some of this diversity is due to neurological differences.
What is neurodiversity?
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Need visual mind-mapping with circles and lines? Maybe you do. But maybe you don’t. Maybe it’s just another distraction, focusing on the tools instead of your thinking.
Write plain text files
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Removing the grade forced students to pay attention to my comments.
I no longer grade my students’ work – and I wish I had stopped sooner
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At a high level, the designer creates a product experience that enables each member of your target audience to complete the product journey efficiently and with minimal mental effort.
Why Your UX Designer is Your Best Friend – The PM and UX Designer Relationship
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This article will first introduce you to some of the different styles used for personal names, and then some of the possible implications for handling those on the Web.
Personal names around the world
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This instrumental version of Tingin Ngiti is nearing completion. What I mean by “completion” is self-satisfaction. Satisfaction that the melodic story has run its full course. Satisfaction that parts of the song have individual subtle flavors to them — this was done by sprinkling and interjecting chords and notes that I wanted to try. Without these twists, it might sound like a broken record, and I’m aiming for uniqueness in the verses.
“Tingin, ngiti lang ba ang isusukli sa akin?” One line, yesterday morning, was dropped by my muse in my head. I excitedly shared it with Jaycelle even if the story has yet to unfold. A song title that was a mere wordplay is unraveling itself into a story of our lives together. The lyrics are currently crystallizing, taking the shape of the melody, and the melody taking the shape of the lyrics — a heterogeneous mixture.
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I’m particularly excited because I finally have a follow-up (potential) song for Jaycelle to sing. The last time was a long time ago.
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Without trust we don’t truly collaborate, we merely coordinate or, at best, cooperate. It is trust that transforms a group of people into a team.
The Connection Between Vulnerability and Trust in Teams
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Genuinely listening to their opinions and feedback allows you to expand your own point of view and try out new things you might not have tried on your own.
Why Giving and Receiving UX Design Feedback is Crucial
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To be without curiosity is to believe that you already know everything, or even worse, that you know all you want to know. It is a blunting of human experience.
Curiouser and Curiouser
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There is something powerful about this notion of possibility spaces, both from a theory standpoint, and as a way of seeing. It causes you to approach challenges in a different way. You don’t need to be creative. The creative breakthrough already exists out there in the space of possibility. It’s just waiting to be discovered.
Possibility space
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Right before I was about to finish New Song 4, my muse already gifted me a new melody to mull over. And here I find myself almost every morning continuing the tune, branching out, going back and forth, shining a light into a path that I am paving at the same time. I’ll be updating this post as I go along — just like “working with the garage door up“.
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[ntt_rl_unsplash href=”nQtuv9JTzYs” photographer=”John Wilson”]Slow down. When people are tired, stressed, and loaded, it is very hard for them to listen, acknowledge, and respect. If we’re pushed to the limit, we get snappy. Perhaps, in concrete terms, you can promote sane working hours and have regular unstructured time.
Of Course Psychological Safety…But How?
[ntt_rl_unsplash href=”xgyYheXFBMw” photographer=”Surface”]People who can be productive everywhere have significantly greater personal and organizational resources than those who can’t be productive anywhere.
The Future Of Work: Productive Anywhere
[ntt_rl_unsplash href=”Lks7vei-eAg” photographer=”charlesdeluvio”]A grand-tour question at the beginning of an interview is like setting the scene for a story: we have a preview of the landscape that we can use to build upon throughout the interview.
6 Mistakes When Crafting Interview Questions
[ntt_rl_unsplash href=”CzW0SOWAq60″ photographer=”Clay Banks”]Many concepts can be explained concisely, in simple language, and we should all strive for clarity. But the aphorism is a mistake, for a number of thoughts approximate the carpenter’s craft, and to meaningfully reveal them requires time and attention.
Long Distance Thinking
I found myself a victim of the hot glue. It was a scene taken out of a comedy show wherein a fool was impatiently pumping a piping hot glue gun. He was doing that not over anything other than his other hand. And then, boom! The nozzle spewed a glob of loogie right on my left pointing finger. There was instant pain as soon as it contacted with my skin and a second after that, it was multiplied by 10.
My son witnessed all this careless stupidity. While the heat was bearing on my skin, I was frozen, not knowing what to do but to wait for the hot glue to dry. I even thought of swatting it out of my finger like a bug. And I did, so I smudged it, causing a bit of collateral damage to one of my fingers. The unbearable pain made me drool. And my son snickered at the sight of that.
As soon as the hot glue petrified, I ran to the kitchen to wash and cool off my finger. My son, beside me, was coaching me to not scratch off the glue as he had experienced a similar accident himself while working on one of his school activities. At that moment while the water was running, I realized that I knew the feeling my son endured when he had his fine time with the hot glue. Definitely excruciating moments.
Not an affliction on my finger could stop me from playing the guitar — especially that I was trying to scratch an itch to figure out the chords that I used for a decades-old song that I wanted to bring back to life. Try as I might, I was confined to playing out that song by forming simple chords not requiring bars.
Simple chords just near the head of the guitar reminds me of two distinct periods in my life when I was starting to learn to play the guitar. It was my cousin, Coco, who taught me the earliest chords I knew, which were D - A - G - A of the song “Line to Heaven” by Introvoys. The second period, was when I became part of a religious organization’s musical band. I was mainly the drummer but subbed on the rhythm guitar. The chords that overplayed in the gospel songs that we played were C - Am - Dm - G - C - C7 - F - Em - Am - Dm - G - C.
This electronic music that I composed in MTV Music Generator around that time is an embodiment of those latter chords. And frankly, I find it cheesy.
The hot glue accident happened in February and it’s been a full month already. My finger grew a new skin, even though still tender, I am training it to grow a thicker one by playing different chords, especially with bars. The song has come a long way since then. After 22 versions, I finally settled.
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[ntt_rl_unsplash href=”35193HMwxmM” photographer=”Amin RK”]Emotional reasoning is a form of distorted cognition that can lead to an unwarranted negative opinion of your ability or character. By generating negative thoughts, a downward spiral of anxiety can cause a self-fulfilling prophecy of worsening performance.
The danger of emotional reasoning and using our emotions as proof
[ntt_rl_unsplash href=”smgTvepind4″ photographer=”Chris Montgomery”]You need to be cautious about learning by trial-and-error because errors at the beginning can set long-ranging reactions in motion. Establish trust early or expect suspicion for a long time.
The art of hosting good online conversations
[ntt_rl_unsplash href=”Fi-GJaLRGKc” photographer=”Pankaj Patel”]Google has designed and is implementing these new criteria specifically to improve the speed, interactivity, and layout of your Web site’s pages. This algorithm update is neither arbitrary nor capricious. In building it, Google has actually prioritized the user experience across the online community.
Optimizing a Web Site for Google’s New UX Criteria
[ntt_rl_unsplash href=”3oWop6MFYfc” photographer=”Clay Banks”]A businessperson entering into a new partnership, for example, would be wise to step back and take a wide-angle look at the organization he wishes to work with. Then, he should pinpoint the person or people he can help — and make sure to do so.
The gentle science of persuasion, part two: Reciprocity
[ntt_rl_unsplash href=”sWlDOWk0Jp8″ photographer=”Ross Sneddon”]A design playbook operates on the premise that members of a team cycle out every few years, but the need for a solid design system is lasting. Operationalising processes ensures that new members can dive into the deep end right away, and with minimum hiccups.
How (and why) to create a design playbook
[ntt_rl_unsplash href=”iMdsjoiftZo” photographer=”Sharon Pittaway”]For the first time, designers have a color system that truly reflects what users see, taking into account a range of variables to ensure appropriate color contrast, accessibility standards, and consistent lightness/colorfulness across hues.
The Science of Color & Design
[ntt_rl_unsplash href=”W8V3G-Nk8FE” photographer=”Jonathan Petersson”]Most mental upside comes from the thrill of anticipation – actual experiences tend to fall flat, and your mind quickly moves on to anticipating the next event. That’s how dopamine works.
Now You Get It
[ntt_rl_unsplash href=”OwqLxCvoVxI” photographer=”Hasan Almasi”]You can build institutions and values that make us more likely to trust each other. Religions are capable of bringing people into a larger grouping and insisting that we treat them as fellow human beings.
Why Humans Wage War