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Yi Shun Lai
1 min readJul 15, 2021

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This Japanese Budgeting System Is Helping Me Define What Matters in My Life

I’m in my mid-40s and have always hated thinking about money. Enter the Kakeibo system.

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How I Fooled Myself Into Beating Imposter Syndrome

Meet Clarence, the self-doubt toad that sits on my shoulder

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I Banished Professional Jealousy From My Life

And it’s allowed me to operate from a position of abundance

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I Am Complicit in a Racist America.

So are you. Here’s what I’m doing about it.

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I Spent Independence Day Copying the Constitution By Hand

Here’s what I learned

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I Will Always Be Happy to Show You My Colossally Bad Art: It’s how I get better

(All artwork in this post is mine. But then again, who would lay claim to it?)

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Everything I Learned about Weathering Coronavirus I Learned from Disaster Relief

Some surprising lessons from my deployments for ShelterBox that you can put to work for you.

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Yi Shun Lai

Written by Yi Shun Lai

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Author: A SUFFRAGISTS’S GUIDE TO THE ANTARCTIC (2024), Pin Ups (2020). Columnist, The Writer. theGooddirt.org; @gooddirt. Psst: Say “yeeshun.” You can do it!

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