I allow myself an imaginary five minutes to write every day. As goes with recording in my audio log / podcast. A five minute window is short. It requires to think rapidly and act focused. And five minutes is just rarely enough for the change I seek to make. Even …
When Spotify entered the playground, music changed. Not because we people changed. An unlimited amount of long-tail music became unlocked for everyone. Algorithms decide what we listen to. We just provide it with our mood or just listen to the music we like. Algorithm does the rest. And do we …
Getting the work you do on the level that it actually delivers value requires focus and bravery. Your work not for everyone. It’s just not. But now that you have delivered: do your customers know that it delivers so much value for them? Your job is to translate the real …
If you make a plan, time and space are the only two real variables. At the same time, without time and space – when and where – your plan is useless. You can call it ‘not ready yet’. But if ready equals useful, not ready equals useless. Remember if you …
We tell our kids that everything will be fine. That their fears aren’t reality. Somewhere along the way we stop believing in what we tell our kids. The same goes for us. Our fears are projections. If you start thinking positive thoughts, the projections will change. And so will your …
Last Friday our cat Zoë has passed away. She was 9. These are just a few of the learnings that I have learnt from her. Cuddling is like magic and is always OK. Even if the other forgot something really important (like giving you food, already for two days). No …
Right before the deadline, that’s not the moment to question it. Neither is it the moment to rethink necessity. If, of course, you made the right decision. But the window for questioning the decision was closed already some time ago. Now there’s the decision you made, and the work you …
Short is simple.Simple is an imageinable version of something complex.So if it’s not short, it’s long.Long is everything in between.
When I had the flu this week, I had plenty of time to watch YouTube on my smartphone and read on my e-reader. I did both. The smartphone won most of the times, but the e-reader seemed to relax me more, I felt. You’d think watching something or reading something …
I’m sick now for nearly a week. Severe flu. As any health related issue, being sick is once again transforming. How less actually matters. What a blessing a good health is. It’s tragic and beautiful at the same time that we don’t see health for it’s true value, until we …