Writing
Scattered notes from things I built, measured, broke, or eventually understood.
Death to meed
And that’s a good thing.
The feeling of being at the edge.
Have you ever stood right on the edge of a steep slope and looked around on the vastness in front of you? There’s a feeling of abundance…
Headache.
A headache is a signal that your body is sending.
Hej Morfar.
Hej Morfar.
Seasons of liv
I think everything in life is seasonal, just like the year. We all have our seasons, both inner and external ones. Some are more frequent…
On relationships and the anger we share in them.
I’ve realised something working with a kid who suffers from mental illness for the past year. There’s a lot more to him than just mental…
7 impossib
Sometimes I wonder what the initial thought was behind the design of trees. Or rocks.
Rethinking celebration
Many of us have to cancel all sorts of celebrations due to the pandemic. Weddings, graduations and even funerals. About a week ago the administration at our university called off our graduation...
Empathy and actio
We can have empathy without action. Empathy in and out of itself doesn’t mean change. Just like imagination doesn’t mean creativity.
The feeling of control.
You know what I’ve noticed? Nobody panics when things go “according to plan.” Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the…
Starting and finishing on plus.
I haven’t finished a day on plus in a very long time. Neither have I started a day on plus in a very long time. That is, I haven’t been…
To bring someone a certain amount of joy and happiness, I’d do almost anything.
Yesterday I spent close to all my awaken hours in a car alone. My mom and her husband are up in his house, 4,5 hours away, and they’d…
On connection
I’ve been in a bit of a rough patch with one of my employers this past month. He’s working from home, and they’ve had a rough time with…
Sometimes going with the punch is
Yesterday I wrote about changing my daily clock around to work for me rather than against me. I experimented with getting it back to what…
Go with the fist.
The past weeks I’ve been going against my natural clock of waking up early and going to bed early. Instead I’ve stayed up late and woken…
Life happens.
I rarely miss an appointment. It’s something I’ve been brought up with: I don’t cancel things. Sometimes we all have things happening to us, happening around us, or simply life happens. And sometimes...
Some things take time.
Things take time. At times we have to let them take their time, other times we can impact them.
Just having fun is an activity as well
I’ve been a youth coach for about 7 months now, divided up on two time periods. We’ve seen tremendous development from the work we’ve done, and it’s been a really wonderful journey.
I’m having a jam packed week, with a lot of meetings every day.
We have to deal with change — all of us. The world outside will, with or without us, continue to develop. We don’t have to keep up, but we…
I think the most prominent trait I’ve seen in people that I look up to is constant change.
Like Dave Chapelle, who’s done comedy for 35 years still being funny and intelligent. Still creating new things.
A large issue with the virus right now is that people aren’t seeing it.
If you were to put ten people on a line, and then I’d tell you that two of them were clinically depressed, one of them on the Autism…
Paying for community.
I think one of the things we’re going to see on the rise from here on is people paying for community access. That is, paying to be part of…
A challenge that liberals are fac
I’ve seen myself as a radical liberal for quite some time now. Doing “The political test” for example, I end up in the extreme…
When you’re racing, there are two distinct distances you can race.
The only way you can win a marathon with a sprint pace, is if you’re able to keep the pace up for a very long time. It might be possible…