There’s this status quo I notice that most people are really bad at planning. When we grow up, our parents plan everything for us. Slowly (high school and beyond) that moves towards our own planning process and structure, but we’re just left to the luck we have in the guidance …
Something else that fascinates me about history is how we treat history in the present. Different people (sometimes groups of people) use a specific version of history in their benefit. Or mistakenly interpret things wrong, without knowing. Clearly we’ve arrived in an era where people appreciate terms as ‘history’ and …
It’s Christmas 1914. It’s the first world war, and Germany and France/UK oppose each other in trenches at a gruesome front. I’d like to quote a letter from Henry Williamson, a 19 year-old private from the British forces. Dear Mother, I am writing from the trenches. It is 11 o’clock …
Studying history is eternally interesting if you seize the opportunity to look at it as a given. No good. No bad. There’s just the events that have occured. No judgement. It teaches us about how we came to where we are now. To me personally it teaches me gratitude about …
A man walks into a store where, amongst many stuff, they also sell bicycle tires. He wants to return/swap his tire because it’s broken within a week after he bought it. The man walks up to the desk and demands a new tire. However, the lady can’t help him because …
A muscle needs to be flexed to maintain strength. When we do something reluctantly, we might think “what do I do this for”. The thing is, even if you think it’s for nothing, it never is. Because if you didn’t add any value, as you might think at that time, …
You only posess something when you can actively access it. I’m cleaning out the attic, our tools. Most of it I forgot we have and thus we bought it 3 of 4 times again. And now I throw it away, some stuff unopened or used once. Special glue, light bulbs …
Our voice is creating stories all the time. About ourselves. Others. Stuff. Everything. It just doesn’t want to shut up. It never does. In meditation you train to see the thoughts, and see the silence underneath. The silence underneath is you. You think the voices are you. But if you …
And remember. In life there’s no point in making it to the finish line early. There’s setting one foot before the other. There’s compassion. There’s joy. Why try taking away joy and compassion and exchanging it for frustration (about speed and targets) and pity (about have nots)? It’s not about …
The grotesque statistical logic that with billions of galaxies and billions of stars and planets there must be life out there. But. The intense lack of proof. This is the Fermiparadox. Whatever the solution to it is, to me it feels like entrepreneurship. Most things we entrepreneurial people do is …