I woke up to this email message from Medium.com partner program. Apparently, I am rich now. 

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I haven't looked at what the best performing post is but 8 cents WOW! And they are actually sending...

My sleep was off yesterday.... actually the last few days. 
For some reason, I feel very tired when I go to bed. I fall asleep pretty quickly but it is not a restful sleep. In the morning, even after over 7-8+ hours, I wake up feeling like I could use...

Many years ago, in the early years of my arrival in the US, I got a job working in a gift store. I was in between semesters at the college. I had also quit the Kmart job I had after I got a full time job tutoring statistics and math...

It's a new month. 
I woke up with the goal of planning and listening in details the things I wanted to do over the next 6-8 weeks. I am doing my 2 month experiment again. This time, the deadline is March 19th. My birthday. 

January was an aggressive good month...

31 days are done in this year. Solid B.
I like 2022 so far. 

Starting the year without a full time job/boss/stress pulling me down makes this the best start to a year since 2006. The way I feel, I can do anything I put my mind too. The most essential piece...

I was craving a lot of junk food today. 
I wanted a big burger with fluffy bread that has over 40 grams of carbs followed by a nice delicious dessert. 

My wicked mind even went as far as telling me that with my discipline in many areas of my life...

Today, I spent an hour writing on paper.

I usually write on a computer unless I am making a to-do list. That I love to do on paper to this day. 
When I was talking to Sir Abe some time back, he mentioned that he likes to write on paper. For...

Jason stated this nice clean formula in the comments section of my post yesterday. I have to agree. 

Back home in Ethiopia, credentials are everything. Even now, when I look at job posts, it is very common to see certifications and degrees as a requirement back home. 

But in the...

I used to frown upon people that would drop names like it should shift how I think about them. 
There was once a guy that told me that he went to Brown University and paused for a reaction. Unfortunately for him, I didn't know all the Ivy league schools at...

I looked out the window of the airplane. After 10 years in India, I was returning home at the age of 15. Two of the last 10 years, my sister and I stayed at a boarding school while the rest of the family returned to Ethiopia, our country of origin. ...