14
2011
TED Talk Takeaways: Teresa Hsu – Wisdom for all ages
“We were very poor and took food from the earth like sweet potatoes and bamboo shoots. One day we were sitting down to a meal, one woman came with a child and said “We haven’t eaten for two days, please help us”. My mother took things from the table things that we were going to eat, gave it all to them and said to me, “We ate yesterday. They haven’t eaten for two days, they have more right to the food.”
13
2011
TED Talk Takeaway: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
What enhances brain health? Positive social interactions, new learning, great diet, sleep, exercise, physical healthy, healthy anxiety, gratitude, meditating, ANT killing.
12
2011
Have I Found My Passion?
Remember how someone had questioned me on how I had been wasting my life working on the useless stuff, yeah. I’ve been working on wookypooky*, and have been loving it. I guess that’s one reason why I no longer wanted to work as a designer – I only wanted to make things I liked. It’s also why I didn’t make a good entrepreneur – I didn’t care if others liked it or not. You could [...]
11
2011
TED Talk Takeaways: Living Beyond Limits
Amy Purdy – Living Beyond Limits If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? As Amy Purdy traumatically lost both her legs, she asked herself the questions of how she was going to do those things she had wanted to do, like travel the world like how she wanted and snowboard again? She escaped reality for months, but she knew she had to move [...]
8
2011
Fixing Facebook Privacy Settings: How people bring your info to apps they use
Everyone should be adjusting their privacy settings, especially for “How people bring your info to apps they use”. Especially after watching this, hopefully. OK. Starting to wonder how many PDF files you might receive if you requested for one, too? The implication of not removing this is that you have no control over what applications your friends are adding, and what these third-party applications are doing with your data. With this new feature, it makes [...]


An article by Amelia Chen



