This month was somewhat more quiet. I spent quality time with friends, and started to work on a side quest in my home: setting up a reading corner. I’ve noticed that I have become more sensitive to my surroundings: the bed is for sleeping, the couch is for relaxing …

Am I lying to myself?

“My mission is to help others becoming a better version of themselves, often by helping them understand that perceived obstacles in their way simply vanish with a perspective shift.”

Plausible? yes. Definitely descriptive, in hindsight, of most of my endeavours over the last 20 years …

This month, I spent quality time with friends and past coworkers in NYC. I felt some anticipation beforehand, excited during my stay, and hopeful/relieved on my last day there. (More on this below.) I also had a few friends for dinner (multiple times) and it is feeling more and …

Two weeks from now I will be in New York, first attending a wedding and then visiting a few friends. If you would like to meet then, let me know!

There are a few news items I would like to share for this month.

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The first one, definitely at the …

When I complained to my life coach, at the end of July, that I was finding it hard to follow the weekly structured schedule I had set up in June, even though I had felt engaged and motivated by it at the beginning, he pointed out that I had been …

This month’s update is coming a little bit early because I will be traveling next week, quite possibly without a laptop.

Some personal un-fun news to get out of the way first:

• I have inflamed tendons inside both shoulders since my travel to the US last month, such that …

Networking is hard.

Here’s the challenge.

A structured event (say, a workshop, a lecture, a concert) is not great for networking. Good networking happens when the participants can “choose their own adventure” and connect to each other in creative ways, and spend quality time doing so—without too many …

This month’s update is a bit longer on account of a lot having happened and also some backlog from May that did not make it to the last update.

In the usual order, you will find: current affairs, house developments, books of the month, and thoughts on various topics …

The house project, thankfully, is winding down. I predict there will be many more months of finishing touches and interior design, but at least my home can drop back to the background again. That being said, earlier this month, I briefly started to worry while contemplating the large number of …

This month was mainly dedicated to managing the house project. This job has been quite intense lately and I will soon need a vacation.

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Perhaps a picture shows it best:

If you find this looks like an industrial workshop, you are not wrong. Between three and twelve workers share this …

The main story this month is that I traveled to Vancouver in late February, then to Seattle, then to the French Alps. Eight months of emotional buildup were released during my flight back from Geneva a week ago.

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There are just four overlapping stories here.

The first story is factual …

Much happened already in the last two weeks and the next few weeks are guaranteed their own share of novelty, now is a good time for a checkpoint. My apologies for this unplanned and, hopefully, unusual burst of writing.

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Last Wednesday, I was driving ~450km (~280 miles) back from a …

The past few days have graced me with the most excellent sleep I have experienced in many months. This is likely a non-determinate consequence of three circumstances: a month of sleep deprivation coming to an end; resuming my exercise routine; and owning two new, high-quality pillows. One of these things …