Or: a desperate search to find a way to live with a chaotic brain and still be a somewhat useful member of society Look, I don’t even know whether I have ADHD or not. I only know that my brain is like a roller coaster that never stops. Sometimes I’m on board of this roller…
Capitalist happiness vs. sensible happiness
don’t chase material success, it’s a capitalist trap I once had colleagues that were car obsessed. They don’t know it, but they taught me a big lesson in life. One of them owned a second hand luxury Mercedes. It was the old Mercedes that the CEO in Germany used to drive in so it had…
Control your browsing habits with RSS
Stop doom-scrolling and take back control of your time by embracing old technology Six weeks ago I deleted the Reddit app from my phone. Time had a weird way of disappearing quickly while I was doomscrolling through my home feed and never reaching the bottom of it. Hours (!) of my day were lost, each…
Keep moving
I’m worried about my father. He worked a physical job for 50 years and that was his only exercise for a long time. He’s retired since 2021. I’m worried now because when I look at him I feel like I can see his muscles withering away while his belly is growing. He’s also had high…
24 Hours Without Screens
Just 24 hours without your phone is enough to know if you should change how you use it. As part of the quest to change my life I am working on three challenges. The 50k steps challenge is completed, the couch25k challenge is underway and going well (I will write about that at a later…
Live Sensibly
With a reasonable effort, you can live in a way that minimizes health risks caused by lifestyle choices. To live sensibly means that you put in a realistic effort to live a healthy lifestyle so you can minimize the risks of getting typical welfare diseases. It’s not a plan that you follow temporarily, it’s a…
50k steps challenge: report
I walked 42km in one day, this is how the day went I’m on a quest to change my life (with limited success so far), but I also thought of some challenges to spice things up. A few months back I saw a YouTube video of a bloke doing 100k steps in one day. I…
The Risk of Change
There are many ways you can fall off the wagon when trying to change your habits I’m writing this on a bad day. At the moment, I don’t believe I can truly change myself, and it’s only day five of my quest! Last time I used this metaphor: it feels good to think about going…