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EJ Elena Shin

EJ Elena Shin

Book] Leadership | Classics Circle: Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl (07/12)

Book] Leadership | Classics Circle: Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl (07/12)

A Conversation Across Centuries Reading Time: 14 minutes Classical Period: Published 1946 (based on 1942-1945 in Nazi concentration camps) Core Philosophy: You cannot control what happens to you. You can control how you find meaning in it. Why I'm Reading This After García Márquez showed me inherited

Obsidian Memo]🌍 That’s a wrap — London Climate Action Week.

Obsidian Memo]🌍 That’s a wrap — London Climate Action Week.

London Climate Action Week 2025 highlighted the future of impact investing — from Ed Miliband’s climate innovation address and COP30 Brazil prep to carbon removal, sustainable cities in the age of AI, and even wisdom from an Andean shaman on reconnecting with nature.

Sustainable/Impact Investing] From Decarbonization to Value Creation: Embedding Sustainability in the Global Energy Transition

Sustainable/Impact Investing] From Decarbonization to Value Creation: Embedding Sustainability in the Global Energy Transition

Obsidian Essay] Essay Collection: Recordings from Seoul (Summer 2025) - Love letters to my female ancestors

Obsidian Essay] Essay Collection: Recordings from Seoul (Summer 2025) - Love letters to my female ancestors

Love letter to my female ancestors0:00/483.0991381× *The introduction has been updated in September 2025, and again in May 2026 with the audio version. Hi everyone — it's here. I'm grateful to share Recordings from Seoul — a new collection of essays I wrote during a

Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | Bohemia: Longing, Exile, and the Music of Homesickness (13/22)

Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | Bohemia: Longing, Exile, and the Music of Homesickness (13/22)

How a small, repeatedly conquered nation maintained its identity through art — and what Dvořák, Kafka, and Smetana teach us about the politics of belonging

Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | Vienna 2: Yesterday's World, Today's Anxiety (12/22)

Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | Vienna 2: Yesterday's World, Today's Anxiety (12/22)

On the civilization that produced Freud and Klimt and Wittgenstein — and what it tells us about the art that flourishes at the edge of an abyss

Book] Leadership | Classics Circle: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez (06/12)

Book] Leadership | Classics Circle: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez (06/12)

A Conversation Across Centuries Reading Time: 16 minutes Classical Period: Published 1967 (set in fictional Macondo, Colombia, spanning ~100 years) Core Philosophy: Time is circular. Families repeat patterns. Solitude is the inheritance we can't escape. Why I'm Reading This After Achebe showed me worlds collapsing, I