Lillian Sheng

While America is fortunate to have plenty of citizens who feel called to jobs that align with our national interests, many citizens feel a tension between what we want to do and what our society needs.

The Pullman Strike was the first national strike in United States history.

The other fraction is friends who work in non-internet or media-related industries or have lived in second or third-tier cities. They don’t shop very often on catalogue-based e-commerce platforms and gave surprising answers for buying from livestreams: “Catalogue-style e-commerce seems like a scam, with livestream, you can at least buy from a real... See more

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The app has categories of conversations including “Return to Office,” “Work From Home,” “COVID-19,” “Layoffs,” and “Job Openings.” A March 2020 post at the start of the pandemic titled “Companies NOT doing WFH” asks users to “name and shame” companies without a work from home policy, garnering 58,400 views and 1,449 comments. Two years later,... See more

When you make any piece of work that matters, the vast majority of people aren't going to like it. And there are several ways to get through that. One way to get through that is to sand off the edges and make it so that no one hates it. That's a bad idea. The other way to get through it is to deliberately insulate yourself from the people who don't... See more

This customization made possible by our “always-online society” can also have negative effects: people have become more prone to becoming anxious when either physical or virtually disconnected from others and it puts us all in a state of mutual surveillance. So, on the one hand, there is the feeling of always wanting to be connected to somebody,... See more

1. Introduce frictionInstead of filling out a form to get on HEY's waitlist, those who wanted access had to send them an email. Seeing HEY's overwhelming success with this approach, Alex Hillman of Indy Hall decided to give it a shot with his new book, Tiny MBA. He put out a few posts on social media inviting people to email him if they were... See more

Willingness can be developed through formal mindfulness practice: sitting in silence while allowing difficult thoughts and feelings to be present. It can also be developed informally whenever we stop trying to get rid of painful thoughts and feelings and instead open up to them as part of the path toward what we care about.