I have always found it fascinating how we choose the people we surround ourselves with. We like to believe that friendship is a completely rational decision: this person is funny, that person is kind, this one is interesting, and somehow after a sufficient amount of coffee and shared experiences we have consciously decided that these are our people. But I think there is something happening underneath all of that which is much more interesting. We recognize pieces of ourselves in other people....

For the longest time, I could not understand why certain things about corporate life bothered me so much. Team-building activities. Afterwork drinks. Company-branded clothes. The forced small talk. The strange enthusiasm around Christmas parties. The expectation that you should not only work for the company, but somehow also feel like you are part of the company. There is nothing objectively wrong with any of these things. People enjoy them. Companies organize them. Sometimes they are...

Hello, my fellow humans. If you spend enough time on the internet, eventually it starts sounding like every single thing in life is equally important and urgently needs fixing immediately. One person tells you to heal your inner child, another says you need to wake up at 5am and optimize your dopamine receptors, somebody else insists you need better boundaries, better habits, better sleep, more discipline, more protein, more mindfulness, less cortisol, less screen time and apparently also a...