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The Decade Migrant

"So ferry, cross the Mersey, 'Cause this land's the place I love, And here I'll stay." Gerry and the Pacemakers Today, I've been living abroad for exactly 10 years. It's a time as good as any to share my first-hand experiences on immigration. Immigrants are individuals like me, sustaining themselves in a foreign country. But, I am not an immigrant . I am an emigrant . On a good day, I'll agree to be called a migrant , so let's use that term going forward as it's neutral. The distinction between the terms is important, as it contains the crux of uprooting yourself and replanting your existence in foreign soil. An immigrant is identified with her new country, while an emigrant is identified with her old country. I am not an immigrant because I belong to my old country. Despite having chosen my new country out of free will, I am not integrated, and I don't strive to be. I fail the primary directive of any successful government immigra

The Paradigm Shift of Daily Planning for Productivity

I have previously written about my obsessions with task management, and various productivity techniques to fight off procrastination. In the past, I expected to holy grail of personal productivity to be found in an organized list with appropriate metadata for each task. Much like MS Project but on a personal level. This is why I was so pleasantly surprised to find out how much I love Any.do 's daily planning feature. In an otherwise bare-bones implementations with hardly any metadata for each task, and other features not completely ironed out - the daily task planning is divine. This is what made me switch from my trusted Toodledo to Any.do. Any.do's daily planning feature does everything right. It pops up a friendly and appropriately obtrusive reminder each morning to plan your day. With interspersed motivational messages it is a reminder that you should be in control of your to dos and not vice versa. In combination with a super-attractive and to-the-point GUI, the dai