Essays
Personal reflections and thoughts on technology, work, and life.
Rituals in the modern era: from getting in shape to shaping your life
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.
The Problem Solver
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. The “problem solvers”, but that’s too clean a label for what’s actually going on.
Where it comes from
I think there are two roots, and most of us have some mix of both.
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