John Paul Canonigo

Why People Humble Brag on LinkedIn? When your professional identity becomes a product, where does the real you end and the personal brand begin? Substack Personal Web Istoryadista Portfolio Social "I wasn't sure whether to share this..." You already know what comes next. Someone has received a promotion, won an award, landed a new job, been invited to speak at a conference, or achieved some impressive business milestone. They tell us they are "humbled." They thank their team. They say they...

My Problem with "Native English"-ism The Myth and the Modern Reality Substack Personal Web Istoryadista Tumblr Medium My daughter is almost two years old. She's becoming a big sister soon, as a sibling is due later this year. She wakes up calling for my wife and me. We talk to her in English, whether it's play time or feeding. And she also picks up some Bahasa Indonesia phrases from everyone around her. Privately, I talk to her in Cebuano since it's the language I used back home in Cebu in...

Are You Sure That’s Real? Why AI Content Keeps Fooling Us Substack Personal Web Istoryadista Tumblr Medium In 1964, US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart delivered one of the most famously ambiguous lines in legal history. Confronted with the impossibility of defining obscenity, he admitted defeat with a shrugging kind of honesty: "I know it when I see it." The phrase was celebrated because it captured an intuitive truth. Humans, it implied, simply know. We have instincts. We have...