Here we go again with advice I should follow myself. It's much easier to think yourself out of doing than to actually start doing something. Thinking is a superpower. It can be medicine to get you where you want to go. But we live in such a left-brained
A lot has been happening in my life, especially when it comes to my career. I didn't have that much time to write (or so I tell myself), but there's one realization I really want to tell you about. Since I'm semi-responsible for artificial
Lately I've been thinking a lot about this question: Why do some people seem to have everything but act like they have nothing, yet some have nothing and make everything out of it? This isn't about material possessions or anything. Heck, we seemed to mostly have
Joseph Campbell led an ordinary life, until he followed one of his great interests: he loved myths of old. What really got him going was reading all about these stories our ancestors told. This lit a burning question in him: why do we as a species tell stories – and why
Startups are the most intense way of testing your idea in reality, because you will get the most truthful feedback from a merciless entity: the free market. But startups aren't just great at testing out your idea. They're also phenomenal in testing yourself. If a company
It's my first rodeo working for a startup, and I'm struggling to stay in the saddle. Everything, everywhere, all at once. Tasks come in from left and right. I don't know where to start. But then I remember something I've used multiple
I was only a kid when I almost drowned in a vortex of confusion. There's never a great time for parents to divorce. But as the American scientist Erica Komisar found out, there are worse times. The worst by far is when the child is between eleven and
When I quit my job about a year ago to go traveling, I thought finding work when I got back again would be easy money. Especially for the new kind of employer I wanted to work for: startups. The job market spat in my face, kicked me in the shin,
There’s this horrible notion slithering through human behavior: acting like a subject of knowledge is beneath one’s self for engaging with it. There’s nothing “cool” about not caring to know something. If that’s the thinking, then it’s all about ego. Because ego can’t handle
For the past three days, I've explored Paris. What the "City of Light" made me realize is that we don't build like we used to before: there's beauty behind every corner. A certain flair follows you wherever you go. Yet in our
Bombardment from everywhere. I don’t know where up and down is, let alone what to do next. No manual exists for such a novel situation. No checklist. Nada. They just keep detonating. Round after round, with no end in sight. For the first time in my life, I feel
The opposite of happiness is not unhappiness, but boredom. And I’ve had too much of it. About one and a half years ago, I was dying for a creative hobby. Something that would give me a chance for self-expression while also being cognitively challenging. “Why would you start a