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Hive Book Club • The Daily Reads #1

Hive Book Club • The Daily Reads 1 --- ✨ Today’s Picks Handpicked voices from the community, worth your time and your attention! @gabrielatravels March Recap: F...

A More Honest Way to Handle Low Energy Days

In between growing my social enterprise, tutoring, marketing my course and trying to find new projects, all these require energy. Even when we have the same amo...

I Baked Banana Muffins from Our Backyard Harvest

After living in megalopolis, rural village, village, small town, to countryside, I realized that it doesn’t matter where we live, it’s how we make the best of i...

Sipping Through the Noise

Some of us have that life’s ritual and for me, it is the coffee ritual that I have. Even on busy days, my coffee habit and rituals are some of the things that k...

Book Review : Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

It's safe to say no place on earth is immune to poverty and even the seemingly wealthiest country like America is no different. From across the world, we tend t...

Nomad Hive: Lessons, Challenges, and What I’d Do Differently

From a Clueless Beginner to an Experienced Nomad > After all, I started this journey as a clueless 18y/old and today it has been quite a few years since I moved...

Making It This Far

“ Didn’t we just meet 4 months ago?” “ Didn’t we just meet 4 months ago?” my friend said while I was showing a picture of us, traveling to Surabaya. That trip f...

2026 Is The Year of Chiclet Keyboard

「 Chiclet Keyboard Aesthetic Is Back! 」 Do you prefer mechanical or chiclet keyboards? I used to think that mechanical keyboards are best for long sessions of t...

Visuals of Arte Coffee Shop

" She has way too many places blacklisted" said a friend of mine. My friend and I were chatting away as we try to decide the next spot we would be spending for ...

Minimalism, Monochrome, and Me

Have some taste! With the long holiday approaching the country, here I am stuck in down time and slightly hating it. However, for the past couple of days, I've ...

The ego is expensive, living isn't

“So, that's about it, you're starting from 0 again now.” The project I had been doing for the past 4 months came to its end. That could only mean one thing, I n...

A Smarter Way to Survive Long Layovers | The Battle of Airport Lounges

Airport Lounges Are More Affordable Than You Think One of the travel hacks I recently learned is staying at an airport lounge rather than the airport benches, r...

The Book That Pulled Me Out of Reading Slump

For someone who manages a public library and is into the literary world, I recently experienced a reading slump. I wondered if it was a “me” problem or I just h...

A Lifestyle Built on Sharing, Learning, and Growing

Back with my lovely keyboard at home, I felt like my motivation to write is back! I don’t know but a solid keyboard has always motivated me to write but also ma...

When Rebuilding Life Means Letting Go of Pride

Throughout the end of last year up to now, my blog has always been talking about re-building my life and only today, I got the mental clarity to look back into ...

Living as A Digital Nomad in Jayapura

Typically, people choose Bali or Thailand for their digital nomad adventure but this time, I’d love to talk about the experience living in Papua, especially Jay...

Freedom With Structure

This year, my personal identity has gone into some reshaping. I've gone from just digital nomad into a hybird remote worker dealing with Infrastructure and urba...

Unboxing Infinix XPad 20 First Impressions & Real Talk

Released back in May 2025, Infinix Xpad is one of the affordable tablets that is compatible with Microsoft office environments. If you are looking for a tablet ...

Moving, Cleaning Home Office, Settling Into New Life

Hey 👋 How's everyone around here? These past 2 months have been such busy months for me. After landing back to Yogyakarta, I was then on the move, moving to my...

Visiting Lake Sentani and Lakeside Deck In Jayapura, Papua

Amidst the end of my trip, I got to know a new person in the city. I wished I knew her earlier because she has been to many places in Jayapura and around Papua....