Published in Writers’ Blokke·PinnedMember-onlyDo These 5 Things If You’re An (Absolute) Beginner on Medium#3: Imagine Your Reader’s Experience — I joined Medium back in 2013. By then, I’d been looking for a platform to put out my writing for a couple of years and Medium looked like an enticing option with its clean interface and minimalist design. …Writing4 min readWriting4 min read
Published in Better Humans·3 days agoMember-onlyUse My Free Planner & Progress TrackerI’ve Been Using It to Roll Out Pieces More Frequently Than Ever — Following my journaling template’s warm reception, I decided to share another one of my templates here. I haven’t been using this setup for very long, but if you’re a writer who wants to keep all of your essay ideas in one place, keep track of your progress in each piece…Productivity5 min readProductivity5 min read
Published in The Side Hustle Club·4 days agoMember-onlyI’ve been on Skillshare Since 2020. Here’s How Much I Earned & What I Learned So FarA Case Study on Online Course Creation — To get the question in the title out of the way, here’s how much Skillshare paid me for the minutes watched in my classes. But this doesn’t include the Engagement promotions, the Teach Corps Class Production Fund, or the different contests I’d participated in.Side Hustle5 min readSide Hustle5 min read
4 days agoMember-onlyMust Our Digital Spaces Reflect Our World’s Inequalities?‘This Service is Not Available in Your Region’ — Indians, Ethiopians, Philipinos, Yemenis, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, Somalis — you guys would probably know about this, even if you’re based elsewhere. If you’re in a Third World nation, being unable to access vast swaths of the internet is the norm. But, based on how some of my favorite, often well-informed, online…Chatgpt4 min readChatgpt4 min read
Jan 17Member-onlyWhy I Write5 personal reminders of what makes this whole thing worth it — I’ve been trying to blog consistently, publish a book or finish some other writing-related project for the better part of a decade now. …Writing5 min readWriting5 min read
Published in Better Humans·Jan 12Member-onlyUse My Free, Foolproof Template to Finally Start JournalingA Step-By-Step Guide to Creating a Data-rich Journal for Capturing Your Memories & Ideas — Whenever I tell people a bit about my journaling habit, I feel like they get the impression that it’s ‘a writers’ thing’. But I don’t see journaling as primarily a writing exercise — I see it as a thinking practice. …Productivity7 min readProductivity7 min read
Dec 31, 2022Member-only2022 in EthiopiaA Personal Highlight Reel — 2022 marked the 8th year since I moved to Addis Ababa — adding myself to one of the most populated cities in Africa. Personally, 2022 was a mess — but I’d rather not get into that today. But as tends to be the case, my phone gallery contains many of…20226 min read20226 min read
Dec 16, 2022Member-onlyI Dipped My Toes in the LinkedIn UniverseAnd It’s Been Bizarre For Three Main Reasons — It’s been around a month since I started squatting in this strange place we call LinkedIn. It feels like some kind of parallel universe with its own ‘language’ and air. I can’t exactly put my finger on why the vibe there felt especially eerie but some of the things that…20224 min read20224 min read
Oct 1, 2022Member-onlyStrategic Vulnerability: The Currency of Parasocial RelationshipsSomething had been bothering me lately — I feel like I’d been adjusting my level of candidness based on others’ reactions. If I feel like I’ve overwhelmed someone with something I just shared, I’ll tone it down a notch. On the flip side, if I feel like someone or a group of people are being ‘cold’ around…Parasocial Relationships3 min readParasocial Relationships3 min read
Published in A Little Bit Better·Aug 22, 2022Member-onlyYou're Not Inconsistent. You're MultidimensionalOn The Stigma Around Career Change & Working in Seasons — During my time in architecture school, I considered myself one of the most restless souls there. A lot of it had to do with my chaotic circumstances at the time, but that wasn’t the only reason. I constantly contemplated dropping out and pursuing other endeavors. But since there were just…Careers3 min readCareers3 min read
