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Reflections
Everything starts with personal reflections.
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Essays, written deliberately
Everything here ties into one bigger topical cluster: how technology shapes the way we live and work. That is the key theme of this blog. Inside it: how we can use and build tech with intention to shape a better world.
The pillars underneath
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Understanding the world
A data and objective facts-driven world view, and trusting the right sources. Understanding first how the world actually works, in order to then understand how technology can be used to make it better.
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Growth
Using the scaling growth techniques for the products that shape the world for the better.
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Tech impact
What technology actually does to the way we live and work, and what building it with intention requires.
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expat-life5 min
Dual Life: From the Village, Going Global
The honest cost of going global from a small village: missing family, guilt, friendships on a timer, and the open question of going back. How I carry it.
expat-life6 min
Overcome the Horizon of Possibilities of Your Environment
What you believe is possible is inherited from your environment. How I outgrew a village horizon: Realschule, a factory floor, then work nobody at home could show me.
expat-life7 min
5 Wrong Reasons to Move Abroad (and the One Good One)
Five wrong reasons to move abroad, from a German who has lived in six cities across five countries, and the one reason that holds up after the novelty fades.
reflections7 min
Life Audit: How to Run One, and How Loosely to Hold the Result
How to run a life audit in one sitting: the categories, the scoring, and the honest limit nobody mentions, from an annual practice plus 5 years of weekly.
reflections8 min
45 Self Reflection Questions, Sorted by the Situation You Are In
Self reflection questions indexed by what you are dealing with, each with what it surfaces, plus the ones that produce nothing and when to stop.
reflections6 min
Daily Journal Prompts That Survive Past Week Three
I tried daily journaling and it failed. Here is why, the 90-second fixed set that survived, and the daily prompts worth rotating in.
reflections6 min
Modern Stoicism: What It Is, and What Held Up After 5 Years
Modern Stoicism is two different things sharing one name. Here is the difference, and which of the practices survived five years of weekly use.
reflections9 min
100 Journal Prompts from 5 Years of Weekly Reflection
100 journal prompts I use myself, grouped by morning, five-minute, weekly review, self-discovery, and the questions that work when life is hard.
reflections6 min
How the World Actually Works (And the Only Lever You Have)
Plato's Cave, a long conversation on global power and consciousness, and what a small village taught me about the one thing you can actually change.
impact7 min
Employee Upskilling: Why Training People Beats Replacing Them With AI
The business case and the economics for upskilling employees instead of replacing them with AI, from someone who teaches AI to executives.
reflections7 min
Stoic Journal: How I Keep One, After 5 Years of Weekly Practice
How to keep a stoic journal, from someone who has written one every week for over five years: the structure, the questions, and the free template I use.
impact7 min
Tech for Social Good: Why Technology Is Not Progress by Default
Most technology ships without making anyone's life better. The economics of so-so technologies, and a 3-step framework for building tech for social good.
startups14 min
Why I Quit My 6-Figure Job at Age 27: Life & Its Cross-Roads
Struggling with whether to quit your job? Here's how I made the call to walk away from a six-figure salary at age 27
reflections4 min
Personal Self Reflection Template [Free Download PDF/Docx]
The weekly self reflection template I have used and iterated on for over five years, built on stoic principles. Free PDF and Word download.
startups8 min
Finding Passion and Purpose in Life with a Plan (Not Luck)
Finding passion and purpose is not an epiphany, it is a plan. A practical, experiment-driven approach to figuring out what drives you.