I recently wrote about the Peter Principle and proposed lack of hierarchy as a solution. Some people swear by hierarchy and can hardly imagine a world without it. Some of us struggle with hierarchy and barely survive in a world ruled by it. …
The most unrealistic plans can be the most efficient. Even when they aren’t particularly efficient, they might be the plans that we need.
For many years I struggled to do what I felt I had been born to do: make music. In my head, I had to find a band…
Spanish musician Enrique Bunbury once expressed he felt more closely related to a chair-maker than he did to a classical composer.
The sentence had a profound impact on me because it made sense. It wasn’t something I had been able to explain after years of songwriting until I heard the…
I have believed for quite some time that most atrocious acts are often caused by the insecurities of the perpetrators.
More recently, I’ve realised a lot of actions that may not be atrocious but that are certainly wrong, unlikely and unworthy of the individuals behind them, are also the result…
We have all seen cats wash themselves. They do it frequently, too. Even if they stick their heads into the empty yogurt tub and get their whiskers dirty, those whiskers won’t stay dirty for long. Cats are constant and thorough in their approach to hygiene. Nobody taught them to. In…
I used to make the mistake of praising the individual to an extreme.
My thought process was very simple, and as much as I tried to refute it, I never managed to: if we all strive to be our best individual selves, then the world will be better collectively too…
If you could travel back in time, what would you change? Would you change anything at all? Let’s say you only have one chance, since time travel is paradoxical and unstable by nature: how far back would you go?
We are simultaneously obsessed with time and not concerned about it…
Even before I turned 18, I had a beard. However, it was a short beard. It was only a few years ago that I decided to let it grow. Well, it was an excruciating (an exaggeration perhaps, but I’m a pain-averse man, I won’t deny it) experience. …
Today’s article will be a bit different. Just two quick thoughts I’d like to share.
I am currently engaged in some intense learning that is forcing me to visit my limits of comprehension and attention.
Sometimes creativity meets logic and sometimes they meet for a very long time — about…
A brothel owner in Austria decided to help the vaccination effort. He had read somewhere that his country’s vaccination campaign was beginning to dwindle, and that the decrease in vaccine uptake was especially true for men. …
