Kategorie: Thoughts on Life
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How to Stop Procrastinating: Trial A
It is summer. I am sitting in the sun with a cup of coffee next to my happily snoozing dog, and I feel – unhappy! What a crazy waste of a potentially perfect day of my life! And the reason for my unease is even more ridiculous: I want to go on a trip to…
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The Curse of Wild Ideas: How to Keep Momentum and Balance
While ideas are great to have, they can distract us and become difficult to manage. I wonder how to make the most of them while still getting things done!
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The weird tentacles of history
I can see how I am going to end in trouble for this post: as I have no intention of writing just a fraction of what the topic deserves, and I can’t possible add all the footnotes that would be necessary. But I want to write about the other day when I took some teenaged…
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The distortions of retrospect or do you remember COVID?
I still feel acutely the shame about a minor incident of my younger self in primary school. On the other hand, I think back on the past three years and find that all things COVID are vague and distant, just like an exhausting dream from which I woke up feeling dazed but unconnected. Why? Collective…
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What I Would Change On Women’s Day
First note how international days are „Disadvantaged and Overlooked Day“, most often for creatures who cannot help themselves. There are all sorts of days like „Hug your librarian day,“ and so forth. I miss the „Billionaire’s Day“ or „Massive Ego Day“. „May the Fourth“ might be an exception, but then a Lightsaber changes everything. To…
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On Self-Optimisation and Personal Branding
You know how people mention ideas, which then simmer in your head, until suddenly you are hyper-aware and start seeing them everywhere? My latest case is „self-optimisation“ and „personal branding“. Hearing about it has long raised my blood pressure, but now increasingly the hair on my neck. Why? To start with, I understand that these…
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Exploring the World on Butterfly Wings
Who doesn’t love to escape the routines of everyday life? Wouldn’t it be great, to once in a while grow wings and fly? I love exploring, to venture out to expand my view on life, freshen my perspective, gain glimpses into other worlds, big or small. Last night, in the insect collection of the ETH…
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