We Live Too Close to the Future

Lately I realized that I spend most of my life living for later. Savings for later, learning for later, working for later, even collecting experiences for later. Almost everything I do is aimed at some version of me that does not exist yet. And slowly a strange question started to…

I Am Starting to Realize That Not Everything Fast Is Better

The world seems to worship speed. Work fast, succeed fast, get rich fast, learn fast. Everywhere I look, the message is roughly the same, that whoever gets there sooner wins, and whoever moves slowly is falling behind. For a long time I believed it too. But lately I am starting…

We Are Losing the Ability to Be a Beginner

Lately I realized there is one thing slowly disappearing from me, the courage to be a beginner. Everyone now wants to look competent. We are afraid to ask, afraid to be wrong, afraid to look like we cannot do something yet. But once upon a time, being a beginner was…

We Are Too Quick to Call Something a “Red Flag”

The internet has given us so many words to judge people with. Red flag, toxic, narcissist, gaslighting, love bombing, the list keeps growing. And I notice that the more terms we have, the faster we reach for them. A small gesture, one awkward sentence, a single habit we do not…

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