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From Impostor Syndrome to Confidence: How To Be a Kick-Ass Professional Woman

Posted on November 2, 2020November 2, 2020 by hktoivon

Constantly feeling inadequate. Doubting your intellect and talents. Being convinced that sooner or later you are going to be exposed as a fraud -as the ignorant person you really are. Long nights sweating over the assignment, the presentation, the paper you are writing. Basically never feeling enough. The challenges of professional women, no matter how…

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I Was Hacked -My Vastaamo Data Breach Story

Posted on October 25, 2020October 26, 2020 by hktoivon

If you are Finnish, you most certainly have already heard about the Vastaamo data breach case. In short, the client data records of a big Finnish psychotherapy company, Vastaamo, have been hacked, probably twice, and the data and session notes of 60 000 people have been stolen. At least parts of this huge data including…

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Some Secrets to High-Performing Teams

Posted on July 24, 2020July 24, 2020 by hktoivon

What makes a team reach its best possible level of performance? How to make a collective truly outperform anything what its members could do individually? Here is a quick dive into literature on team performance and a couple of secrets to high-performing teams. Let’s talk about team goals and team identity. Traditionally, organizations have tried…

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Anaïs Nin’s Psychoanalysis -A Literary Journey

Posted on July 18, 2020July 18, 2020 by hktoivon

Anaïs Nin was is one of the best-known journal keepers to this day.

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Quality in Qualitative Research – A Quick How-To

Posted on June 28, 2020July 8, 2020 by hktoivon

Qualitative research has a bad reputation -and, I’m sad to say, for a reason. Here is a collection of some problems and pitfalls I’ve noticed in qualitative research theses and papers and suggestions on how to avoid them. Why Qualitative Research? What is qualitative research? It is not a lacking or poorly done quantitative research….

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Intentional Approach to Social Isolation during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Posted on April 11, 2020May 18, 2020 by hktoivon

I hear a lot of people say these days that it is okay not to be at your most productive when there is a pandemic to fight and when you are locked inside your house 24/7 while trying to do remote work, homeschool your kids, wash your hands 500 times a day, and keep your…

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The Viral Language Dances of Corona Virus

Posted on March 29, 2020April 11, 2020 by hktoivon

The original, longer version of this text (in Finnish) can be found at Verkko-Särö. The infectious nature of Corona virus is also digital. The viral bubble around the virus is quite reminiscent of a postmodern version of dancing plague. What good can come out of this for the human community? In the Middle Ages, Europe…

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Human-Smart Device Interaction

Posted on March 29, 2020April 11, 2020 by hktoivon

In today’s society, you don’t need to be a computer engineer to see how understanding human-smart device interaction is becoming as crucial as understanding our interaction with other human beings. The qualities of smart devices make them very different from other objects that surround us in our home. This offers possibilities to establish a relationship…

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  • From Impostor Syndrome to Confidence: How To Be a Kick-Ass Professional Woman
  • I Was Hacked -My Vastaamo Data Breach Story
  • Some Secrets to High-Performing Teams
  • Anaïs Nin’s Psychoanalysis -A Literary Journey
  • Quality in Qualitative Research – A Quick How-To

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