Essays

Personal reflections and thoughts on technology, work, and life.

Rituals in the modern era: from getting in shape to shaping your life

7 min read

Bold title uh? Follow me carefully.
One evening, while I was training in the gym, as I’ve been doing for the past 20 years, a girl asked me if she was executing the exercise that her trainer added to her routine correctly: little did she know that experiencing the same scene once again would allow me to finally see and understand one particular pattern I had experienced all my life.

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The Problem Solver

3 min read

When something breaks, most people call someone. I don’t. I open it up. Not because I always know what’s wrong, but because I need to figure it out. And when I look at the problem, the feeling isn’t dread. It’s closer to relief. Finally, something with an answer.

There are plenty of people like this. I call them problem solvers, but that’s too clean a label for what’s actually going on.

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