Last night the clocks were moved forward by one hour. The biggest consequence of this is usually one hour less of sleep. Not great. But there’s another thing that’s happening today, and it’s a positive one: All of a sudden, the evenings are longer again. More time to catch a few rays of sunlight on an afterwork run....

Related to yesterday’s post, I want to list a couple of quick and easy ways to get “a small win”. Simple things we can do to shift our mood. Most of the things on the list are pretty obvious when you read them, but I still find it helpful to have a menu to choose from. So here we go: Breathwork Our breath is one of...

If you’re watching only one video today, make it this one. Not only is it exceptionally beautifully written, shot, color graded and edited, but it also has a very important message. All you need right now is a win. Sometimes, whether or not we feel like we’re in a slump, the most important thing we can do is think...

Yesterday, I got to watch one of the most anticipated films of the year on the big screen. Project Hail Mary is the movie adaptation of the similarly named sci-fi book by Andy Weir. If that name rings a bell, it’s probably because it’s the same author that wrote The Martian, which was a huge hit (both as a book and...

The Pudding is one of those sites I love to browse regularly and always leave with a feeling of delight (and new insights). If you haven’t heard of them, they are a digital publication that creates data-driven stories. So they often have an interesting dataset or pose a curious question (often both) and turn it into...

Part 3 of my series on the book “The Art of Spending Money” by Morgan Housel. For me personally, when it comes to personal finance, one of the hardest things is to find a good ratio between the money I spend vs. the money I save. As I wrote about in the last post from this series, saving is what gives us...

The crazy stuff that is going on over on the other side of the Atlantic has made one thing clear: Too many people (and businesses), me included, are way too dependent on US big tech companies. Switching away from tools you depended on for years can be hard though. And while I think it would theoretically be possible...

Part 2 of my series on the book “The Art of Spending Money” by Morgan Housel. One of the main theses of the book is the following: There are two ways to use money. You can use it as a tool to improve your life. Or you can make it the measure of your status, to compare yourself with others. It’s pretty obvious which...

“Writing online” can mean many different things. A social media post, a forum entry, an essay, a poem – you name it. But my favorite format remains the short blogpost. A couple of paragraphs, talking about one experience, one idea, one epiphany, but always something to take away or something leaving the reader...

This is an observation I regularly have during everyday life. Some days feel like I have all the time in the world. I manage what I set out to do, I move, create, read, learn. These are fulfilling days. Then, in the evening, I have this feeling of “being done”. I can properly wind down. But then there are days where...

Part 1 of my series on the book “The Art of Spending Money” by Morgan Housel. One random fact from the book that stuck with me is this: Between the 10 richest men in the world, there are 13 divorces. Even if one has all the money in the world, more than they could spend in 1’000 lifetimes, a good and happy life is...

It’s already past 8 pm and if I’m honest, if it weren’t for my writing PACT, I wouldn’t be writing this post. And you wouldn’t be reading it. But you still do. Because I just set a timer for 5 minutes, sat down and started writing. We often hear that consistency is key when it comes to habits or getting better at...