The Yellow Season

In October, I celebrate a lot of things. It’s a joyful month, which also marks the beginning of the holiday season. The busiest time of the year. I think it is the same in every field of work. It’s funny that we’re talking about the end of the year, but we’re not actually ready to face another end of the year. So, here’s a couple of things that I found at the beginning of October.

At the end of September, MailChimp announced their newest re-brand. I use MailChimp as my e-mail marketing provider at Kawung Living, so I’m quite familiar with their branding. They used a lot of colorful colors and always keep their iconic Freddie the Chimp in a good way. At first, I thought the 17 years old company doesn’t need a rebrand whatsoever. But after seeing what Collins did to the company website and element, I know what MailChimp sees in the future. The marketing provider is growing and now aims for small businesses and brands. Their latest campaign tells a statement: Growing Up Doesn’t Mean to Buttoning Up. That’s why they suddenly getting the Yellow color (which I totally love) and all the quirky illustrations. I love seeing weird designs in a tech company! See more of the rebrand here.

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Starting Small – Memanfaatkan Data

Setelah sebelumnya mengulas tentang cara penghitungan finansial sederhana, sekarang saya ingin membahas hal yang tidak kalah pentingnya: Data.

Akhir-akhir ini, kita pasti pernah mendengar kata Big Data, pekerjaan dengan titel Data Researcher, ataupun beberapa workshop berjudul Data Science. Pekerjaan yang 10 tahun lalu ini masih eksklusif dikerjakan oleh research company seperti McKinsey, sekarang sudah umum dikerjakan oleh seorang individu. Nggak aneh kalau beberapa universitas sudah memiliki jurusan atau mata kuliah Data Science di kurikulumnya. Data seakan menjadi salah satu tolak ukur penting yang digunakan sebagai penentu keputusan-keputusan bisnis ataupun arah perusahaan sekarang ini.

Apakah bisnis kecil juga harus ikut-ikutan memperhatikan hal ini? Data apa yang sebenarnya dimaksud dan apakah akan berguna untuk kelangsungan bisnis kita? Apa nggak bisa kelihatan dari menghitung stok barang saja? Nah, kali ini saya ingin mencoba berbagi hal-hal sederhana tentang bagaimana kamu bisa menggunakan dan memaksimalkan data yang kamu miliki dalam bisnis kecilmu.

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Hilang

Apa arti manusia?
Nama? Identitas? Pendidikan? Jabatan? Warisan?
Napas. Pikiran. Harapan. Masa depan.
Mungkin kita harus kehilangan penghilatan, untuk benar-benar bisa melihat kemanusiaan.
Mungkin kita harus kehilangan ingatan, untuk benar-benar ingat bagaimana cara menjadi manusia.
Hari ini kita tidak kehilangan keduanya, tetapi kehilangan manusia.
Manusia-manusia yang masih ingin menjadi manusia.

The Home Office

Ever since I’ve started working from home, I’ve always wanted a personal desk and the so-called “home office”. I’ve seen many inspirations on the internet on how to make an affordable home office but I’ve never really managed to make it comes true. Like I wrote before, I’ve always worked from my bed or on the floor :)) Though I understand it’s considered not healthy, it’s still bearable because I don’t have any other option whatsoever.

But a girl can dream. I mean, who doesn’t want to have these kinds of office?

A clean and chic office of OhJoy!

A millennial pink paint of StudioDIY

A props shelves of Aww Sam

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Reaching Far

What is a dream to a 6 years old?
What is a dream to a 20 years old?
What is a dream to a 60 years old?

The mold and shapes can be the same, or completely different.
But the idea of reaching something far remains.
And you’re still the same dreamer you used to be.
It is the thought that makes it different.
When we are older, do the dream seems closer or farther than we thought?
Do we need to change it to follow our past consequences and our present circumstances?
Can we still call it a dream?

I can’t answer it for sure.

But maybe I will find the answers bit by bit while the time goes on.

PS: I cried while reading this piece about Bambang Hartono last month when Asian Games fever came. People made fun of him or made a joke that he doesn’t need it when the news about the prize bonus for the athlete broke to the media. I don’t blame anyone since he can still laugh at himself in the end. But the article tells a lot about things that people still want to pursue though it seems impossible at first. About a love that transcends towards years. About dreams still hold dearly although we don’t know how it would end.

PSS: Tirto.id continues to awe me by consistently produces good content. For the Asian Games, they asked some of the athletes to write on their Opinion Column, which somewhat similar to The Player’s Tribune. They also made a minute by minute news report in presidential candidate admission. Though the format is also somewhat similar to TIME. it’s a fresh approach of reporting that our news media currently lacks.