Ali Assareh
Make your office fun!
Make your office fun! One of my favorite things when I worked in BigLaw was psychoanalyzing my colleagues’ offices…. Were they neat...
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The world can be lonely, but it’s also full of beautiful, kind people.
I was 17, living on my own in the US, and I had a huge crush on one of my high school classmates. She invited me over one night to do our...
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What are your happiest memories with your father?
What are your happiest memories with your father? I was thinking about that last night. It’s the third anniversary of my dad’s passing,...
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THIS is it!
*Perspective Fridays* I wanted this poster for a really long time. I finally bought it. It shows how many weeks of my life have passed,...
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I wanted him to see, me, there.
*Perspective Fridays* One of the things that really struck me when I was learning about parenting was Jean Piaget’s theory of childhood...
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A lot of our relationship problems are not between us, but within ourselves.
*Perspective Fridays* A lot of our problems in a relationship are not problems between us, but problems with ourselves that we each bring...
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Mondrian painting was hung upside down for 75 years.
🤦🏽♂️ “The way the picture is currently hung shows the multicoloured lines thickening at the bottom, suggesting an extremely simplified...
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The tallest tree in Wales was damaged in a storm, and was going to be cut down.
The tallest tree in Wales was damaged in a storm, and was going to be cut down. Artist Simon O’Rourke carved it into this beautiful,...
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For a split second — I FELT my heart was soooooo full.
Last night I had a dream about my brother — who died 13 years ago. When I woke up, for a SPLIT SECOND — it felt like he was still here....
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"Aliko" - the first woman who landed on the moon 🚀
Throwback to fictional character "Aliko" - the first woman who landed on the moon 🚀 When the pandemic hit, I wanted to bring a smile to...
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If The Beatles’s classic, Hey Jude, was a presentation in a Board deck 😂
If The Beatles’s classic, Hey Jude, was a presentation in a Board deck 😂
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Experience of a typical executive v experience of typical employee
The experience of a typical executive coming into the office is SO DIFFERENT from the experience of a typical employee. Typical...
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Absolutely fascinating & heartbreaking: how racism and geography intersect
Absolutely fascinating & heartbreaking: how the interplay between violent racism and geography shapes our life.
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We can connect, at an intersection, with a wave.
I lean pretty blue, but where I live leans pretty red. Almost every day, after work, I take my son Issa “car watching.” We park his...
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"lawyer... will pay you $1 for a load of wood and charge you from $5 to $20 for a little writing"
Amusing — From an 1876 letter to The Mercury, the magazine for the Farmers’ Alliance (which went on to become the Populist Party and...
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Hearing colleagues or friends say “Happy Ramadan” is such a bittersweet experience for me.
Hearing colleagues or friends say “Happy Ramadan” is such a bittersweet experience for me. Sweet, because it reminds me of how amazing it...
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Maria Prymachenko's "Philosophy of the Good"
Maria Prymachenko was a legendary Ukrainian artist whose vibrant, fairytale-style paintings adorn the walls of many children’s rooms,...
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The “name-letter effect”
“The “name-letter effect” refers to the subconscious bias that people have for the letters in their own name, and for their own initials...
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Zoom in — do you see it?
Zoom in — do you see it? (Beautiful photo ascribed to The National Georaphic in online forums, although I can’t find the actual source.)
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A short video about our family’s Haft Seen this year
The most important tradition of the Persian New Year (March 20!) is to set up the "Haft Seen” table, or table of Seven S's. These are...
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