Something I’m thinking a lot about entrepreneurship: Why scale? Or in other words: Why is scaling up seen as desirable? And also– are there hidden downsides of having a really big scale? When it is better to be a mouse than an elephant Example from Nassim Taleb‘s “Antifragile” book: A mouse is less likely to […]

There is no ultimate ‘truth’ — only varying degrees of “truthiness” (degrees of truth). The basic notion is this: The purpose of philosophy isn’t to discover an ultimate truth. The purpose of philosophy is to discover DEEPER LEVELS of truth, which I propose as “truthiness”. Personal truth Furthermore, it is a waste of time (vain […]

For the last 2 years, I have been experimenting with disconnecting. This meant: For about 1-2 years, I didn’t own a phone After this period, I used phones (Xiaomi and iPhone) for around 6 months without a data/phone plan. The basic notion was this: By not owning a phone or a phone plan, can I […]

# Test Your limits Dear friend, A fun idea to ponder: aren’t you curious what your limits are? *** I had this idea while at the gym when I got a new personal record for my “one rep max” for 95lbs Dumbell press (before my maximum was 90 lbs). This is what is fun for […]

Dear friend, I want to write you a letter on the EGO — how we can kill our personal ego (in a negative way), but also let our ego flourish (to become the best version of ourselves): ## I. EGO-MANIAC x HUMBLE I think if you want to live a super epic life, full of […]