You know that feeling when some thing you see strikes a chord in you, triggers something deep inside, resonates, sends vibrations through your inner state? The modern urge is to take out your phone, or maybe, if you're fancier, a camera, and record it. Often, when looking at the so-captured moment, it disappoints. It's nowhere near as vibrant, as visceral as experienced. No filter helps,. In those moments, I often think to myself, 'I should learn how to paint.' Perhaps this explains why human...

You know that feeling when some thing you see strikes a chord in you, triggers something deep inside, resonates, sends vibrations through your inner state? The modern urge is to take out your phone, or maybe, if you're fancier, a camera, and record it. Often, when looking at the so-captured moment, it disappoints. It's nowhere near as vibrant, as visceral as experienced. No filter helps,. In those moments, I often think to myself, 'I should learn how to paint.' Perhaps this explains why human...

When you ask people how to best build your personal brand, they'll recommend consistency, finding one's niche, becoming if not an opinion, at least a thought-leader. When you ask people what you should learn, it's usually related to paving the way for your future career aspirations or, at least, something that seems immediately useful. I too fell into these traps at first. I am sure it works for some, but it didn't for me. When I started working in crypto, all I wrote were introductions to ne...

When you ask people how to best build your personal brand, they'll recommend consistency, finding one's niche, becoming if not an opinion, at least a thought-leader. When you ask people what you should learn, it's usually related to paving the way for your future career aspirations or, at least, something that seems immediately useful. I too fell into these traps at first. I am sure it works for some, but it didn't for me. When I started working in crypto, all I wrote were introductions to ne...

In the last weeks, I spent an unusually large amount of time in transit. From moving across half the width of Germany to flying back from Tbilisi after an off-site, which took me door-to-door a casual 12 hours (including the 30 minutes I walked in the rain back home because I couldn't be asked to wait for a bus, nor did I feel like taking a taxi in this economy). It got me thinking. About the presentation by Rory Sutherland, I watched one year ago on YouTube, wondering whether we're too impat...

In the last weeks, I spent an unusually large amount of time in transit. From moving across half the width of Germany to flying back from Tbilisi after an off-site, which took me door-to-door a casual 12 hours (including the 30 minutes I walked in the rain back home because I couldn't be asked to wait for a bus, nor did I feel like taking a taxi in this economy). It got me thinking. About the presentation by Rory Sutherland, I watched one year ago on YouTube, wondering whether we're too impat...