Category: Productivity

  • On Stationery

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    If there are any enduring loves in my life, one of them would have to be stationery. It’s simple: I’ve been keeping some kind of paper journal since I was twelve, and this will probably continue until I die. There have been many gaps in those pages over the years, don’t get me wrong; but…

  • Boundaries

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    Our office intern asked me a strange question this morning: “Hey Kate, when you don’t like a person, is it obvious?”

  • Learning UX design basics

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    Last week, I tuned in to General Assembly’s Intro to UX Design livestream for Asia-Pacific audiences. Technical hiccups aside, it was a good overview of what UX design is and what the work of a UX designer entails. The talk addressed key questions like: What is UX design? What does a UX designer do? How…

  • Obligatory New Year Post

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    There’s this funny game I’ve been playing for the past few months. Imagine this: a supervillain wraps a hapless woman in chains, balances a set of spinning plates on a stick perched on the tip of her nose, sets her on a unicycle, and tells her to make her way across a tightrope. Or else…

    Bokeh photo of people holding sparklers
  • Work From Home with These 9 Tools

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    It’s been a year and a half since I started to work from home. Our team spans several time zones, and the variance in daytime hours means we’re not all working on the same 9 AM – 6 PM clock. We get the freedom to clock in however we wish, as long as we get…

    A photo of a workstation with laptop, coffee, phone, and notepad