Shafa Yahya
@shafayahya.bsky.social
🍃 nature lover • optimist ▪︎ curious learner • creative social entrepreneur • money educator
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"Right now, you are missing the vast majority of what is happening around you."
A cognitive scientist takes you on a tour of the reality you habitually miss www.themarginalian.org/2013/08/12/o...
A cognitive scientist takes you on a tour of the reality you habitually miss www.themarginalian.org/2013/08/12/o...
The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland
“Attention is an intentional, unapologetic discriminator. It asks what is relevant right now, and gears us up to notice only that.”
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June 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"Right now, you are missing the vast majority of what is happening around you."
A cognitive scientist takes you on a tour of the reality you habitually miss www.themarginalian.org/2013/08/12/o...
A cognitive scientist takes you on a tour of the reality you habitually miss www.themarginalian.org/2013/08/12/o...
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Let’s build kinder, happier schools where everyone belongs! Be inspired and supported during a new, year-long virtual community of practice program with educators around the world! 🌍 Here are three themes we will be exploring. Thanks to @grantdraws.bsky.social for the amazing illustrations! #EduSky
June 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Let’s build kinder, happier schools where everyone belongs! Be inspired and supported during a new, year-long virtual community of practice program with educators around the world! 🌍 Here are three themes we will be exploring. Thanks to @grantdraws.bsky.social for the amazing illustrations! #EduSky
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Education . . . has become an institution whose purpose in the modern world is not to make culture, not to serve the living cosmos, but to harness humankind to the dead forces of materialism.
— Robert Sardello, Facing the World with Soul
— Robert Sardello, Facing the World with Soul
June 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Education . . . has become an institution whose purpose in the modern world is not to make culture, not to serve the living cosmos, but to harness humankind to the dead forces of materialism.
— Robert Sardello, Facing the World with Soul
— Robert Sardello, Facing the World with Soul
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How to think like a sunflower – poet, farmer, and philosopher Wendell Berry on turning conflict into collaboration www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/01/w...
How to Think Like a Sunflower: Wendell Berry on Turning Conflict into Collaboration
“We are not the authors of ourselves. That we are not is a religious perception, but it is also a biological and a social one. Each of us has had many authors, and each of us is engaged, for …
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June 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
How to think like a sunflower – poet, farmer, and philosopher Wendell Berry on turning conflict into collaboration www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/01/w...
"If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light."
— Rumi
— Rumi
May 31, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light."
— Rumi
— Rumi
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Emerson, born on this day in 1802, on how to trust yourself and what solitude really means: www.themarginalian.org/2022/09/12/e...
Emerson on How to Trust Yourself and What Solitude Really Means
“It is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
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May 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Emerson, born on this day in 1802, on how to trust yourself and what solitude really means: www.themarginalian.org/2022/09/12/e...
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The story of the mad-genius pioneer who sparked the dawn of AI – which is really a story about what limits of logic liberate in us www.themarginalian.org/2023/12/02/l...
A Brief History of the Mind in the Machine: John von Neumann, the Inception of AI, and How the Limits of Logic Can Liberate Us
“Something very small, so tiny and insignificant as to be almost invisible in its origin, can nonetheless open up a new and radiant perspective, because through it a higher order of being is …
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May 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The story of the mad-genius pioneer who sparked the dawn of AI – which is really a story about what limits of logic liberate in us www.themarginalian.org/2023/12/02/l...
"All good things are wild and free."
— Henry David Thoreau
— Henry David Thoreau
April 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
"All good things are wild and free."
— Henry David Thoreau
— Henry David Thoreau
Happiness Break: A Meditation on the Uniqueness of Your Voice greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/ite... @greatergoodedu.bsky.social
Happiness Break: A Meditation on the Uniqueness of Your Voice
Embrace the beauty of your accent in this self-compassion meditation that guides you in a reflection of your history, heritage, and connection to your ancestors.
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April 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Happiness Break: A Meditation on the Uniqueness of Your Voice greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/ite... @greatergoodedu.bsky.social
How Do We Go on Teaching in Troubling Times? greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
How Do We Go on Teaching in Troubling Times?
Teacher and activist Parker J. Palmer offers steadying words of wisdom for today's educators in the United States.
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April 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
How Do We Go on Teaching in Troubling Times? greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
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Emily Dickinson's herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of poetry and science
Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Forgotten Treasure at the Intersection of Science and Poetry
An elegy for time and the mortality of beauty, composed with passionate patience and a sensuous cadence.
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April 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Emily Dickinson's herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of poetry and science
It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person – beguiled, enchanted.
—Mary Ellen Chase
—Mary Ellen Chase
April 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person – beguiled, enchanted.
—Mary Ellen Chase
—Mary Ellen Chase
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“A library is a rainbow in the clouds.”
Maya Angelou, born on this day in 1928, on how a library saved her life
Maya Angelou, born on this day in 1928, on how a library saved her life
Maya Angelou on How a Library Saved Her Life
“A library is a rainbow in the clouds.”
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April 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
“A library is a rainbow in the clouds.”
Maya Angelou, born on this day in 1928, on how a library saved her life
Maya Angelou, born on this day in 1928, on how a library saved her life
"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
April 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart."
— Maya Angelou
— Maya Angelou
March 30, 2025 at 4:38 AM
"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart."
— Maya Angelou
— Maya Angelou
I’ve started writing on Substack, sharing insights on money management & financial behaviour.
My first long-form piece explores how to balance caution & confidence when making financial decisions.
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My first long-form piece explores how to balance caution & confidence when making financial decisions.
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March 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I’ve started writing on Substack, sharing insights on money management & financial behaviour.
My first long-form piece explores how to balance caution & confidence when making financial decisions.
📖 Read here:
open.substack.com/pub/shafayah...
💌 Subscribe to stay updated! Thank you✨️
My first long-form piece explores how to balance caution & confidence when making financial decisions.
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Smart Financial Decision-Making
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Smart Financial Decision-Making
Balancing confidence with caution in personal finance decisions
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March 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Smart Financial Decision-Making
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Ultimately, digital well-being is a journey. It is not a checklist that,once completed,means you are fulfilled.
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It's time for a digital detox! 30 days of no social media. Turning it off!
Four Tips for a Successful Digital Detox greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
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It's time for a digital detox! 30 days of no social media. Turning it off!
Four Tips for a Successful Digital Detox greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
Four Tips for a Successful Digital Detox
These strategies can help you when you want to take a planned break from screen time or social media.
greatergood.berkeley.edu
February 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Ultimately, digital well-being is a journey. It is not a checklist that,once completed,means you are fulfilled.
@greatergoodedu.bsky.social
It's time for a digital detox! 30 days of no social media. Turning it off!
Four Tips for a Successful Digital Detox greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
@greatergoodedu.bsky.social
It's time for a digital detox! 30 days of no social media. Turning it off!
Four Tips for a Successful Digital Detox greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
Happiness Break: A Self-Compassion Meditation For Burnout greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/ite...
Happiness Break: A Self-Compassion Meditation For Burnout
Feeling burned out? Join Dr. Kristin Neff as she guides us through a calming practice to bring kindness and support to ourselves during tough times.
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February 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Happiness Break: A Self-Compassion Meditation For Burnout greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/ite...
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2,000 years later, this really works: A Stoic's key to peace of mind – Seneca on the antidote to anxiety
A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
“There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
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February 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
2,000 years later, this really works: A Stoic's key to peace of mind – Seneca on the antidote to anxiety
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Between science and magic – the enchanted physics of how hummingbirds hover at the edge of the possible
Between Science and Magic: How Hummingbirds Hover at the Edge of the Possible
How a tiny creature faster than the Space Shuttle balances the impossible equation of extreme fragility and superhuman strength.
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February 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Between science and magic – the enchanted physics of how hummingbirds hover at the edge of the possible
How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
~ Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers
~ Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers
February 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
~ Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers
~ Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers
"If light is in your heart, you will find your way home."
~ Rumi
~ Rumi
January 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"If light is in your heart, you will find your way home."
~ Rumi
~ Rumi
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"In the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
Kahlil Gibran, born on this day in 1883, on friendship and the building blocks of meaningful connection
Kahlil Gibran, born on this day in 1883, on friendship and the building blocks of meaningful connection
Kahlil Gibran on Friendship and the Building Blocks of Meaningful Connection
“In the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
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January 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
"In the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
Kahlil Gibran, born on this day in 1883, on friendship and the building blocks of meaningful connection
Kahlil Gibran, born on this day in 1883, on friendship and the building blocks of meaningful connection
"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
December 30, 2024 at 11:48 AM
"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka