Tuesday, 17 August, 2021 13:58 I’ve been looking for water bottles for over a week now. And it’s been a nightmare. I called the minimarket around the corner, and they’re out of stock. I downloaded an app and ordered a pack from a bigger market. The order comes back to…

Monday, August 16, 2021 8:30 Good morning from the land of uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, and volatility. The amps and volts and watts are in place; the norm has become a strange surprise. Surreal. Had a guided meditation for stress relief. HAHAHA. A very calm voice told me to drop the…

Friday, August 13, 2021 8:45 I had three minutes of electricity around 7 AM. And then back to nothing. Still nothing. If it’s anything like yesterday, “nothing” will stay until 12:00 PM. I have a meeting at 10:00 AM… The optimism! Some never learn, right? 10:08 The optimism of a…

Thursday, August 12, 2021 9:34 Every now and then, you send messages with capital letters to your friends, let off some steam, and then, when you have a zoom meeting with your collaborators, you put on a Hollywood-worthy show. But you’re so involved in the show of your unaltered professional…

On February 7, Bassel, Lucy, Maria, and Marina started a 7-day journey called The Sleep Experiment, a project designed by someone who struggled with sleep for people who share the struggle. Meet the heroes Motivated by his desire to fix his encumbered sleep schedule, Bassel set out to design a life-in-times-of-lockdown outside…

You are standing in front a big black box. You know that what’s inside can completely change your life because others have bragged about opening theirs and, as a result, are living a life of fulfillment. But the box seems unreachable. It is locked and you don’t know how to…

Shattered. Crushed. Crumbled. Pulverized. That’s Beirut after a capital-wide explosion that even Cyprus felt, more than 200 kilometres across the sea. As a result of the blast of August 4, more than 100* people have died and 4000+* were rushed to hospitals. 300,000 are now left without a home. The…

When uncertainty befalls upon us, resistance entraps us. And it seems like a more serious threat as the world around us changes at a pace faster than the speed at which we can make sense of what is happening. New technologies appear with rising frequencies, reinventing how individuals commute, how…

This is not an article, it’s an idea; the idea that creativity is like a muscle and that you need to practice it to reap its benefits. But how? — Let’s start with a warm-up Are you up for a quick test of your creative divergent thinking? Stop everything you’re doing and try this: Get your phone ready for a countdown of 1 minute. Is it ready? You will have to choose any item around you and think of as many alternative uses as you…