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...

That's how I feel quite a bit these days. And it's not just because I'm forced to using Notion at work (that is enough of a pain honestly for one human) - it's also because I feel consistently like being the odd one out for trying to argue against de-humanizing ways, against ways to strip all dignity away, from winning the race to the bottom just for the sake of quick attention. I know this doesn't go in a Tech Bro's bird brain (oh wait sorry... actually pigeon brains have double the neuron d...

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...