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Celebrating 5 years of With Content, and doing right things right in 2023
“But I also wondered if he wasn’t right, that we were designed to live through something rather than to attain something, and the thing we were meant to live through was designed to change us. The point of a story is the character arc, the change.” – Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand […]
Reflecting on the last four years, and introducing With Content’s new leader
Fear. As I sat down to reflect on my decision to move on from With Content, I was surprised that the first emotion to hit me was a sense of fear. Fear that others would think that I had failed, and was making a quick exit. Fear that everything would fall apart, as if I […]
The crime of the gig economy (Deeper #30)
Startups are founded with the hopes of creating change in their environment. But let’s be real here: it takes a lot of privilege to be able to start an endeavour that may not completely cover living costs, at least in the beginning. When I hear startup founders say of prospective employees, “If they’re focused on […]
Does femtech have a place in Southeast Asia? (Deeper #29)
Source In honor of International Women’s Month, this edition is dedicated to half of the world’s population—the alleged better half. Just (half) kidding. Jokes aside, being a woman is hard. You get cramps, you go through regular hormonal changes, and you’re the only human subset that can perpetuate the species. All of these things simultaneously […]
Burnout, desperation, and the human propensity for hope (Deeper #28)
This edition of Deeper covers a topic that’s been on my mind for a while now: burnout. It’s been a year since the first cases of the Covid-19 pandemic were announced in Indonesia—and most countries across Southeast Asia have experienced their own “pandemic anniversaries”. March has become a dreaded month for many. Just a week […]
How Covid-19 has shaped the startup tech landscape thus far (Deeper #26)
Is it February already? Suffice to say the last year has felt like both a blur and a slow crawl. It’s crazy to think how this time last year was a completely different time in our lives—a sort of twilight zone where people could hug and dine and not wear masks. In a matter of […]
The state of artificial intelligence in Southeast Asia (Deeper #25)
Without further ado, let’s dive in. Hey there, it’s Rachel here! It’s kinda ironic that I got inspired to write this edition of Deeper after reading an article about GPT-3, a robot that can write articles that look as though they’re written by a human. Yes—it wrote that article. How I wish it could […]