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  • Life-Long Learning: Pursuing education in your 30s

    At the moment of typing this, I have turned 36. I have a BA in Library Studies and an MA in Business Intelligence from a Ukrainian university (i.e. useless), and a Hubspot certificate in Content Marketing. If I had the money, I would’ve also had a few Coursera certificates to boast of, but I only ever did the auditing path.

    Ever since graduating in 2013, I couldn’t help but feel that my education wasn’t enough. Partly, it’s due to having studied at a Ukrainian university and having to deal with corruption and indifference from my professors. I’ve seen many of my fellow students pursue a second Master’s — something that I’ve always wanted to do, but never had the money to actually do it.

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  • In pursuit of pseudo-intellectualism

    The famous saying by Socrates goes “I know that I know nothing”.

    Whenever I’m browsing the internet on the lookout for interesting blogs or book discussions, there is one thing that I notice.

    It may be only endemic to my local inter-webs, but it seems that after decades of suppressing the natural evolution of thought, and basically skipping a generation due to repressions in the Soviet times, a new generation has surfaced of people suffering from the snobbish longing to be perceived as intellectuals.

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  • A New Blog After a Decade of Silence

    A New Blog After a Decade of Silence

    People rarely see the many failed attempts. They observe your success and think it came easily or was handed to you. Whether it’s a blog or a passion project, everyone has to start somewhere.

    It’s not my first time starting a blog, but unlike before, today I can approach it with some semblance of knowledge and insight into the industry kitchen. Especially since I’ve had a corporate job as a marketing copywriter for about five years, which has taught me the most valuable lesson of them all — it’s not that hard.

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