2023

  • How to Feel Less Lonely: 7 Evidence-Based Ways to Reconnection

    How to Feel Less Lonely: 7 Evidence-Based Ways to Reconnection

    A few years ago, on a frosty winter night, my loneliness hit so bad that I curled up in front of my radiator. I wanted to replicate human warmth. I wanted to cry. I wanted to feel something. But there was nothing. My chest felt like an airlock that was accidentally opened in outer space, […]

  • Finish More Books: How to Unlock the Power of Patient Reading

    Finish More Books: How to Unlock the Power of Patient Reading

    Until recently, reading anything felt straight-up strainful. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to read. I kept buying more books, my TBR had grown like bamboo on fertilizer, and, as a writer and philosophy student, reading is part of my job. And yet, reading patiently — let alone finishing books — had become as tough as opening a pickle […]

  • 3 Minimalist Principles That Significantly Simplified My Life

    3 Minimalist Principles That Significantly Simplified My Life

    Over the past three years, I tried countless things to create a simpler, more minimalist life. To name a few: I cleared out my entire apartment, lived out of a backpack (twice), went on a pilgrimage, and radically changed my consumption habits. But I also did a lot of stupid things. I bought stuff I […]

  • The Importance of Having an Existential Crisis

    The Importance of Having an Existential Crisis

    Every few months, I sink into a deep existential crisis where I question everything — who I am, what I’m doing, the point of it all. It feels like getting sucked into a vicious grinder that pulverizes any sense of purpose I created for myself. Or like waking up on the wildest rollercoaster ride and never having […]

  • Don’t Remember What You Read (In Praise of Forgetfulness)

    Don’t Remember What You Read (In Praise of Forgetfulness)

    Advice on how to remember everything you read is plastered all over the internet. And to me — someone who juggles writing with studying languages and philosophy — this used to sound like the key to the promised land. Here was the antidote to living in a world of information overload. At last, I could escape the torturing anxiety […]