Yohan Perera

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How to keep conflicts at work to a Minimum?

In my previous post titled “Do You Fall Asleep at Work? Me Too!” I discussed five strategies I used to overcome my proclivity for dozing off at work. Today, I’d like to share with you a few tips for minimizing workplace conflicts. While we cannot prevent conflicts altogether, there are things we can do to…

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Ground Rules of Using Social Media for Sri Lankans

I have had the privilege of managing social media foI have had the unique privilege of managing social media for a prominent Christian church based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, over the past four years. This opportunity not only allowed me to serve in a meaningful capacity but also granted me firsthand insight into how social…

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Do You Fall Asleep at Work? Me Too!

I firmly believe adequate sleep is essential for a disciplined lifestyle. A disciplined lifestyle helps to win at work and succeed in life. Excessive sleep however is a curse especially if you fall asleep at work. It’s humiliating, counterproductive, and could derail your career. Trust me. I know because I used to fall asleep across…

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Ground Rules for using PickMe and Uber

The introduction of transport Apps has made life easier for all of us. They are convenient and budget-friendly. Much more efficient than random “tuks”. At the moment PickMe and Uber are the most popular taxi-hailing apps in Sri Lanka. (Unlike Uber which operates only in Colombo and its suburbs, PickMe operates in Negombo, Pilliyandala, and…

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Thinking of an Affair? Think Again!

On March 01st, 2021 the Sri Lanka Police found unattended luggage in the streets of Colombo. Inside, they found a headless female body. In a similar incident on 30th July 2015, they found another female body in luggage left behind in the street. Besides having been murdered both victims shared another common factor. They both…

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Oppo A12: What I Like, Dislike and Miss

In my previous post titled “Dialog: What I like, Dislike and Hate” I wrote about my love and hate relationship with Dialog Axiata. Today I want to tell you what I feel about my new Oppo A12. There was a time I used to say ‘appo!’ (a Sri Lankan expression of hopelessness) every time anyone…

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The Ravi Zacharias Scandal: Spotting Deceptive Leadership in Church

Although the evangelical community prefers to think the late Ravi Zacharias sexual and financial scandal is an isolated incident it’s not so. It exposes a trend prevalent across the evangelical church today. The tragic revelation indicates that Christian Leaders are perfectly capable of manipulating their recognition and charisma to conceal their darkest and dirtiest secrets….

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3 Myths about Pornography I wish were True

In my previous blog post, “Social Media is the New Face of Porn” I discussed in detail how pornographers cleverly use social media platforms as vehicles to distribute and promote pornography to a wider audience. Social media has become an effective carrier that allows them to reach people more easily and covertly than ever before….

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The worrying state of Cybersecurity in Sri Lanka

On February 6th, 2021 many users’ traffic to GOOGLE.LK and a few other websites under the LK Domain Registry redirected to a propaganda page in what seemed to be the work of hacktivists. The page drew attention to several contemporary national issues. Although the media reported the websites themselves have been hacked, the hackers had…

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I’m sticking with WhatsApp: Here’s Why?

Signal and Telegram have become the world’s hottest apps over the last week, because of the growing anxiety over privacy concerns emerging from Facebook’s updates to WhatsApp’s privacy policy. This move by the Social Media Giant caused a mass exodus as millions of alarmed WhatsApp users switched to Signal and Telegram. [Users in Europe are…

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