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We live in an age where everyone is expected to “pick up skills” like they’re packet nasi goreng from a warung. Quick, cheap, instantly satisfying. Bosses want you to “adapt quickly”, friends are “learning Web3 on the side”, and TikTok makes it look like you can become a violinist in a month if you just believe in yourself. Meanwhile, you’re Googling “what is Docker” for the fifteenth time. Here’s the truth. Learning new things is not magic. It’s science, psychology, and sweat. If you understand how your brain actually learns, you can stop fighting it. Two books give us the cheat codes: The First 20 Hours by Josh Kaufman and Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. One teaches you how to break learning into manageable chunks. The other explains how your brain makes decisions. Combine them and learning becomes a system instead of a headache. Let’s break it down.

The Introverted Broke Man The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has gained a curious kind of cultural immortality in the corporate world. Much like fans of Hogwarts boast about their house allegiance, professionals increasingly flaunt their MBTI personality types as badges of identity, sometimes even over and above their actual job titles. But while the MBTI might feel like a fun shortcut to understanding people, its widespread use as a serious hiring or promotion tool is deeply problematic. It’s time to look honestly at why MBTI shouldn’t guide workplace decisions and what to do instead.

I’ll apologise in advance, but this is me in fed-up-with-life mode. Photo by Luis Villasmil on Unsplash Let’s be honest. Surviving in post-pandemic 2025 feels like someone pressed hard mode on life and threw away the instruction manual. Every day I wake up thinking maybe today will be better. But no. The world insists on reminding me that I’m just a pawn in a badly coded simulation that’s still running on Windows XP. Jobs? They exist, technically. But trying to land one feels like squeezing into a TransJakarta bus during rush hour. Sweaty, humiliating, and you’ll probably get shoved out before the doors even close. Salaries are a joke. Inflation laughs like a drunk uncle at a wedding. My expenses sprint. My income crawls. And then there’s the Indonesian government. The less said, the better. If they found a way to tax oxygen, we’d all be bankrupt by tomorrow. Every time I think they’ve run out of creative ways to make life harder, they prove me wrong. S...