Sometime in 2013, I used the word "sustainable" in an job interview while applying for a Government Owned and Controlled Corporation (GOCC). It apparently struck a chord with the interviewer, who was then the department manager as he further probed why I used that word when I answered his question. Fast forward 9 years after, …
Quite the interesting podcast. The set-up alone is a good hook -- the interviewer is interviewing the FBI agent who caught the podcast host. https://youtu.be/XvglIpgcI6M
The hero's journey ending with the whole world experiencing a collective amnesia of who he is and what he has sacrificed -- is by no means a new story plot. While it traces back to the age of mythologies, its rarity is why it often feels moving when it becomes the resolution to a story. …
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THIS ARTICLE assumes that the reader is a lawyer. Not only that, the lawyer is in private practice and has hanged his/her shingle so to speak or has finally came to the realization that hourly billing sucks! That last part is what got me reminded to write this article. You see, last year, I was …
I've never ridden, much more drove, a jet ski. Neither my little sister. Yet, despite knowing there is a very high chance of us falling, tumbling, and making a fool of ourselves, we took on the challenge and both declared - "let's do it!" My sister is 12 years younger than me and is the …
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"An invisible atom bomb has exploded in our information ecosystem, and the world must act as it did after Hiroshima. Like that time, we need to create new institutions, like the United Nations, and new codes stating our values, like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to prevent humanity from doing its worse. It’s an …
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Many are called, but only few are chosen, so says an old adage. For those called to the legal profession, they usually have storied backgrounds. They may have started on the wrong side of things; however, they are able to rise up through difficulties to overcome hurdles. Just what a true lawyer does. https://youtu.be/3D89nnBnrFA
I started my college with reservations on the degree that I was on. When I received the notice that I passed my UPCAT, it was with mixed emotions. Not that I was crying nor ecstatic with joy. Rather, it was more of a "huh…?" I may have passed the admission test to enter the University …
I had no inkling of becoming a lawyer when I was a kid. As far as I could remember, I have always been fascinated with computers. You see, I grew up during the birth and rise of the Internet from 1999 to the early 2000s. I was in my second year in high school when …
Today, October 10, World Mental Health Day is celebrated. Like clockwork, I'm reminded on how little to nothing has improved with the IBP in terms of promoting mental wellness and well-being among Filipino lawyers. It seems the masochist perspective of the legal profession remains to be the norm. After all, the law school experience is …
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Jericho Del Puerto 