I spent much of my early adult life studying physics and engineering. These fields build on a series of assumptions you can verify and chain to each other backwards and forward. For example, a few equations (Maxwell's and Lorentz force) can derive everything we know about all classical

Why a silent retreat? Short answer: It just feels like the right thing to do. Break patterns. Reset a baseline for external stimuli. Long answer: My family and I have recently realised how I have been more prone to distractions. My attention span and tolerance for breaks have been shrinking

Founders make a lot of decisions. We learn how to be data-driven: measuring, evaluating, and projecting. What happens when these skills spill over into decisions in your private life? While building a successful startup, you develop frameworks for data-driven decision-making: what is enough data, when to take a decision, how

As a founder, you are under pressure to deliver results in a short amount of time. This pressure is something you are used to and probably thrive with. It is a source of meaning and enjoyment! It can sometimes turn into negative stress, but you have learnt how to handle

I recently listened to a podcast with philosopher Kieran Setiya that presented telic and atelic verbs and activities. Telicity is a property of a verb indicating that the action has a clear endpoint or goal. You can think of the difference between having kids and parenting or graduating and studying.

We live in a period characterised by polarity and strong dichotomies. Good vs evil, right vs wrong, work vs life. Once you stop and reflect, you soon realise that most of these dualities do not make sense. Reality is more nuanced, and we like it in an interweaved ecosystem where