From shock to love: How the closed-on-Sunday law in Germany improved my life Germany has had a law since the 1950s that bans most shops from selling on Sundays, and it has given me a new lease on my time.
My 2020 Annual Review This is the first time I am writing an Annual Review in this format. I’ve experimented with various formats over the last three years (2017, 2018, 2019) and I think it is time to bring some consistency into these year-end reflections. An Annual Review is a personal note that
Learning in public Often, I let myself believe that many people just “get it,” that they know what they want to do in life and they just dove into it and became excellent. For example, there’s this person whose tweets and website I lurk around. His name is Shawn (@swyx) and when
1st Annual Reflection on Living Abroad in Berlin (away from Singapore) 7 Things I’ve Learned from my First Year Living in Berlin (away from Singapore). First published 4.10.2020.
Life on a Campervan Before you know it, your face is greasy, your feet cold, and you wonder, why are you doing this? Nah, that’s not representative of life on a campervan, although I’ve felt all that in my recent week-long campervan trip with my wife and dog. Our motor home for
You are not buying that with money Most of us trade time for money. Do you deny it? In modern life we purchase things all the time. There is an ongoing pandemic trapping us at home, yet we continue to buy stuff from Amazon. Our lives are structured around stuff, there is no escaping it. Unless, well,
Why I love the seasons Deep within me, I yearn for variation. Very few things in life are truly monotonous, so when the weather actually is, it makes me sad. Most things like our heartbeats have a rhythm to it! So by that argument, I've been rather sad my whole life having lived
Notes from The Year Without Pants by Scott Berkun This was a book that I originally thought was written by the founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg. Turns out, it was written by someone who joined Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com) as the first experimental Team Lead in the company's history. He believes this book is “a