Orchestrated Resistance Have you ever had one of those days when life seems perfectly against you? Not just a bad day. We all have those. I mean the kind of day where one thing after another gets in your way. You’re running late. Your card doesn’t work. You miss the train. The next thing goes …
The Question of Reality Have you ever wondered: What is all this? What’s this life we find ourselves inside of? What is reality, really? These are questions that perhaps we don’t really ask every day, but they’ve been asked by countless humans over aeons. Most of us answer them implicitly, through the way we live, rather than …
Intuition mostly speaks quietly. If your mind is constantly noisy, cluttered, or stressed, you won’t hear it. Imagine you’re weighing up a decision: a career change, a job offer, a relationship, a move across the country, or even something smaller and everyday. Buried beneath all the mental noise, spreadsheets or pros and cons, there’s a …
When you lose all meaning in life, and your identity falls apart, what remains, and how meaning can begin again from a deeper ground Meaning Sustains Us A sense of meaning has sustained me through challenging times, over and over again. It’s what has given me strength, direction and determination in many areas of my …
I had a simple idea: What would happen if AIs talked to each other about anything they wanted? What might they talk about? What would it reveal about what was in the “system”, its tendencies and biases? I ran a simple experiment to see. It’s not scientific research, mainly curiosity, but I was careful in …
Why Forcing Life Stops Working Take a moment and ask yourself a simple question: How do you usually try to create what you want in life? Do you plan carefully, set clear goals, and try to think things through in advance? Perhaps you push harder, work longer, and rely on discipline to get you there? Do …
Three Words That Keep Returning In the past few weeks, three words have kept drawing my attention. They came quietly at first — not as big revelations, but as recurring themes beneath my everyday desires. When I slowed down enough to notice, I realised they were pointing to the experience behind the things I thought …
The More Beautiful Work In addition to the Manifesto for The More Beautiful Work, I wrote these principles as an additional guide on our journey. There are 21 statements and brief descriptions which are pointers to doing “More Beautiful Work” for a “More Beautiful World”! Some of them overlap, but I decided to go with …
When people feel stuck in their career, they often think the solution is simple: “If I could just figure out what I want to do, everything else would fall into place.” Career clarity feels like the magic bullet. Unfortunately, what I’ve seen is that clarity on its own often isn’t enough. The Myth of Career …
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to effortlessly achieve their vocational goals while others struggle to make progress? The secret lies not just in skills or opportunities, but in something much deeper: our feelings. Yes, those emotions, often hidden under the skin, swirling within us—joy, fear, envy, love—play a pivotal role in shaping …
