I can't remember the last time dread hasn't filled every pore of my body. For the past hours I've been staring into a screen. Thank (insert your favorite deity here) the screen can't look back because what it would see would terrify
The first morning after I arrived in Chiang Mai, I would not just get to know the Thai kitchen. I’d be cooking the meal myself. The beauty of cooking classes! A bus would pick us up and take us to the cooking class. My friend Sara, whom I’ve
Social media is an angry-making machine. But nothing envelopes me more in rage than the hustle gurus. So-called "hustle porn" (don't google it, I've made that mistake for you) is all over the internet: the idea of putting in more time into
Here we go again with advice I should follow myself. It's much easier to think yourself out of doing than to actually start doing something. Thinking is a superpower. It can be medicine to get you where you want to go. But we live in such a left-
A lot has been happening in my life, especially when it comes to my career. I didn't have that much time to write (or so I tell myself), but there's one realization I really want to tell you about. Since I'm semi-responsible for
Lately I've been thinking a lot about this question: Why do some people seem to have everything but act like they have nothing, yet some have nothing and make everything out of it? This isn't about material possessions or anything. Heck, we seemed to mostly have
Joseph Campbell led an ordinary life, until he followed one of his great interests: he loved myths of old. What really got him going was reading all about these stories our ancestors told. This lit a burning question in him: why do we as a species tell stories – and why
Startups are the most intense way of testing your idea in reality, because you will get the most truthful feedback from a merciless entity: the free market. But startups aren't just great at testing out your idea. They're also phenomenal in testing yourself. If a company
It's my first rodeo working for a startup, and I'm struggling to stay in the saddle. Everything, everywhere, all at once. Tasks come in from left and right. I don't know where to start. But then I remember something I've used multiple
I was only a kid when I almost drowned in a vortex of confusion. There's never a great time for parents to divorce. But as the American scientist Erica Komisar found out, there are worse times. The worst by far is when the child is between eleven and
When I quit my job about a year ago to go traveling, I thought finding work when I got back again would be easy money. Especially for the new kind of employer I wanted to work for: startups. The job market spat in my face, kicked me in the shin,
There’s this horrible notion slithering through human behavior: acting like a subject of knowledge is beneath one’s self for engaging with it. There’s nothing “cool” about not caring to know something. If that’s the thinking, then it’s all about ego. Because ego can’t handle