I am the disruptor.
For as long as I can remember, I've had contrasting opinions. I never really fit into a group, and can never figure out whether that's a bad thing or not. I want to belong, and at the same time, I don't. Observing from the
Favorite albums of 2025
Heavy metal warning! I don't exclusively listen to heavy metal, but yeah, it is my preferred genre.
Here are my personal favourite releases of this year, in no particular order.
Buried Realm - The Dormant Darkness
This was a very good "play it in the gym"
Visual Thinking learning journey, Day 2 - Play
Yesterday, I devoted almost the entire working day and beyond to get my learning journey started. Today, I didn't have this luxury. I had a lot of to-dos for my IT job, but I managed to sneak some practice in.
Because I had so little time, I decided
Visual Thinking learning journey, day 1 - Overwhelm
Date: 20 October 2025.
Last updated: 18:00. This day is still in progress, so this post will be updated.
The Why
I saw the (free!) Sketch Your Mind online conference, and the intro talk alone convinced me to give this a try.
"This" being: marrying textual thinking
Trying out health tracking spreads in the Hobonichi Weeks
So far, I've been using my 2025 Hobonichi Weeks for a variety of purposes. I've used it as a planner, a health tracker, a diary. Next year, my new Weeks will have a very clear purpose: tracking my (mental) health status by logging workouts, scoring my
Kokuyo Binder for impactful articles
The Japanese brand Kokuyo is notoriously hard to get here in Europe, and I feel very stupid for not having picked up some Campus notebooks while I was in Japan two years ago.
Luckily, when I was in Vienna in June earlier this year, there was a cute shop that
Acceptance of the self
The theme that Hobonichi chose for next year is "you love you?". At first, it sounded cheesy to me, but follow the link and read what Shigesato Itoi has to say about it. A small excerpt:
“I Love Me” might come across as narcissistic. But if someone asked