23-07-2025
ST Headstart: Matcha making and mindful living
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Hello again. The hot leaf juice known as matcha is one of the core pillars of millennial civilisation, and I'm only half joking. In the latest Young and Savvy column, my colleague Sharon Salim relates her effort in brewing the tea to the world we live in now. It's a soul-nourishing read for these unsettling times.
On the career front, if you struggle with putting off tasks you need to complete, the latest Headstart On Record podcast might help. In it, I speak to a researcher who studies how people work. She lays out the psychological quirks we bring to work, especially why we procrastinate and how to tackle it.
A young prison visit centre officer also takes us through the ups and downs of her job in the second instalment of our new series On The Job. These officers hold a sense of quiet purpose in themselves as they make each visit meaningful within prison rules.
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