Writing
Scattered notes from things I built, measured, broke, or eventually understood.
It can’t be built on relationship, but relationship is at the very core of it.
Whenever there are more than one people involved in the project, relationships are going to impact the very core of things. It’s going to…
Your thoughts create your emotions.
Your thoughts create your emotions. That’s why you at time feel the things you feel, because you thought something about something.
Importanter
I’m going away for an extended period of time soon. I’ve been buried in administrative work the past weeks, and had quite some stress…
A reason to live.
Some people use the notion of that they’re going to die as a means for productivity, creativity and for motivation. Some people say that creativity and human will is created out of the conflict of...
Meditation because it’s work worth doing.
Meditation isn’t something that you do to calm your senses when you’re stressed out. It’s not something used as a tool to gain something. Meditation wasn’t created for you to use it to put inner...
The work worth doing.
There are a million reasons to why your work might seem worth doing, why it might bear meaning to you. To solve a crisis, to solve a…
Waves
All things come in waves. Work. Family life. Needs. Will to do things.
Healing elfs.
I was told by a friend today that he sends healing elfs to a dog that he’s never met. I asked him how he does it, and he explained it…
There’s an easy argument for why information doesn’t make us any more knowledgable.
Knowledge is a processed version of information. That is just as your furniture is a processed version of wood. For it to become furniture…
High ambitions.
My girlfriend in high school had great ambitions for herself. She had her whole life planned out, wanting to move to NYC and live in a…
On placebos.
Coffee makes you focus better. It’s been scientifically proven. What’s also been proven is that if you think it’s going to help you focus…
Ask.
Ask questions.
On family.
Family doesn’t have to be about a bond of blood. It could just as well be a concept summing up a group highly prioritised by you. That…
Environment doesn’t exist without a subject.
The most curious insight came to me in a conversation the other day, served on a silver plate. He said:
Focus and the ability to create knowledge.
The ability to get good at something heavily correlates with how good you are at keeping your focus at something for an extended period of…
Tempo in thoughts and action.
Macro patience, micro speed has been very important to me for the past couple of weeks. Looking at things on both a macro and a micro…
Two loops
As I’ve previously written about, change never happens without a perceived need for it. In order for it to be perceived, there need to be…
Belonging.
For a long time, I’ve had a hard time understanding people talking about belonging as something they need to work on. People who’ve talked…
On true thoughts.
– Do you want me to tell you a little secret?
On Family
Who’s your family?
Being a teacher.
I want to become a teacher. Rather, I want to become a person to which people come and ask for help with things that I seemingly know more…
An invitation.
I had a talk with a friend the other day, and talked about how I’m currently slowing down in life, giving things time and space to emerge…
Prototype.
I’ve spent the day thinking broadly about design and about business. About designing a solution to a problem that I myself or someone in…
The power of silence.
There’s something profound happening when silence is shared. When people jointly take a moment to be together without any formal…