It’s hard to admit, but there’s a good chance you know that feeling: You hang out with a friend, a co-worker or you listen to a celebrity and you think to yourself: “Wow .. that person is kinda dumb!” It may sound like I’m an arrogant psycho, but I think it’s quite natural that we […]

What does it take to be a man? What does masculinity (I don’t even like that word) look like in this day and age? It’s a dicey topic because someone will always be offended, it’s either “boo hoo victim complex” or “you’re a simp”, so I was hesitant to even write about it. But here […]

If you know Muslims, you’ve probably heard them say “Insha’Allah” at some point. I thought it sounded interesting and I knew it meant something like “If God wants it”, but I didn’t really understand why they’d say it (and why they’d say it so frequently, sometimes). I frequently heard it being used at the end […]

We had our first mini-vacation in a long time, in a thermal resort in Leukerbad, in a part of Switzerland called Wallis (the picture below shows the view from our hotel). It was nice, we hiked every day and slept in our VW Bus last night. On our first hike, me and my girlfriend started […]

Possibly the most difficult question is how to make a living in today’s world.It has become exponentially harder with seemingly limitless options, career paths and job descriptions that didn’t even exist 5 years ago. The freedom of choice is nice, but it’s easy to get overwhelmed (and there are studies showing we dislike having too […]

I recently watched a Vice documentary on codeine cough syrup addiction in Africa (along with some other crazy Africa documentaries which were almost overwhelmingly captivating, like The Mysterious Animal Gangs Of Nigeria or The life of the super-rich in Central Africa. And yes, I know very well that this is not what most of Africa […]

As someone who spends a lot of time online, one thing I’ve suspected for a long time has become more and more apparent to me: Negativity is so much more interesting, addictive and powerful than positivity. Unfortunately. You’ve probably noticed this as well: We almost can’t stop ourselves from clicking on that article about a […]

There’s tons of advice on self-confidence out there, most of it is pretty useless, but here’s a line that I thought was interesting: Confidence comes from giving yourself permission to be not what you want yourself to be, but what you are. I read it in an Instagram Story of Jacob Collier – he’s a […]

*Preface: Some people will take offense to the concept of intelligent vs. dumb and question whether objective intelligence exists. It’s a valid point, and let me state that I don’t consider myself to be highly intelligent. The way I define intelligence in this context is not necessarily in a sense of high IQ-test-score, but rather […]