Secrets I learned after 7 years without sugar
What I learned in seven years without sugar and the secret to quit sugar effortlessly.
Three insider anthropological reasons we are uncertain awful investors
90% of people who invest lose money. Yet if you watch videos online, it seems easy to win. How is it so? Evolution made us awful investors.
If you want to work remote, turn on your camera in Zoom
Turning off the camera in videocalls makes everyone involved more tired and stressed. Turn camera on to keep remote work.
After one year of working remote from the mountains
What I learned and decided Photo taken while writing this article A year ago I moved with my girlfriend to a cabin at the foothills of the mountains. We did not leave our jobs or live off the grid. We did not become digital nomads or entrepreneurs. We have been working remote at our same jobs as before. These are knowledge work in advertising and marketing. This is what I have learned after one year of working remote from a cabin in the mountains: 1. I am not going back to…
Less of everything makes life better
Yet we suffocate our lives with more of everything This article is inspired by the Effortless book by Greg McKeown. Reading the section of starting from zero and minimal steps, made me think about other areas where removing things is the solution. I realized this is a pattern: Less is more. We live in a world of abundance. We have a lot of objects, information, tasks, opportunities, decisions, stimuli. This excess is in direct contradiction with our human nature. As a species we evolved in a world of scarcity. Our forager…
It’s not your fault you’re fat
Long story short: your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandpa was not fat when foraging in the wild. Try to live as close to him as possible and you will not be either.
Working a lot is like suffering a perpetual hangover
Workaholism is nothing like alcoholism, yet they are the same. You work too much, you live too little.
Better than microdosing: walks in nature
One of my more spectacular walks in nature Microdosing with psychedelics is taking a very low sub-hallucinogenic dose of a psychedelic, such as LSD or psilocybin mushrooms. It has become a popular practice (searches, Reddit). What are the benefits of microdosing? They are mainly improving mood and focus. One study found 27% for the first and 15% for the second. There is a benefit in mental health: stress, anxiety, depression. And improved creativity. However the latter is self-reported, so it only shows that people think they are more creative, not necessarily that…