Making mental health and work morals go hand-in-hand — I’m a human production machine. Not by active choice. Or because of ambitions. I’m just highly disciplined, relentlessly focused and very conscientious. As a consequence, I’m super efficient and hyper productive. I simply can’t help it. And that’s great isn’t it? Productivity is a strongly praised virtue these days (and…

How Algorithms are Ruining our Creativity — The internet is an amazing place for getting inspiration, meeting new people and learning anything your heart desires. It’s given billions of people a voice who didn’t have one before, and they’re using it with gusto — myself included. It’s an amazing development I can only celebrate. However, there is…

What I talk about, when I talk about dancing — Dancing is my natural habitat. It’s been like this for years – ever since I first came across this wild place of endless possibilities back when I was 18. It’s the one place in life where I feel completely comfortable in my own skin. Where anything can happen, yet nothing…

金繕い : to repair with gold. — No one makes it through life without breaking at least once or twice. Tragedies happen, traumas are inflicted, hearts are broken, and losses felt. Some people experience it on a regular basis, others manage to minimize it, but none of us avoid it completely. Breaking is part of our life…

Designing my digital world in service of me — On the first Sunday of 2021, I decided to try out one month of phone-free Mondays just to see how that would affect me. I’m always exploring new habits and challenging my old ways in order to improve my life and not getting to stuck in patterns no longer serving…

The Skills, the Assets, and the Jobs of Tomorrow — A year ago I moved to Vienna for a job opportunity. A startup with the mission to encourage young people to become changemakers and create a better tomorrow was searching for a new team member. A friend in my Facebook network had shared the job opening, and I instantly felt…

What do you do to clear your mind? When your thoughts are going in endless circles and you no longer know what’s up and down? I do one of two things: Either I write or I walk. I can have the most emotionally exhausting day or be in the most…

What does it mean to learn and how do you create a space most suitable for it? I have been active in the educational field for seven years, working with teenagers as well as adults, in obligatory school as well as voluntary workshop settings. Sometimes teaching german grammar, sometimes piano…

Sleepless nights, distracted days, and the twilight in between It’s been another one of those nights — waking up at 3AM with restlessness in every cell of my body, yet with a head heavy with tiredness. A regular, but desperately unwelcome occurrence. Something is keeping me up at night, but I have no clue what’s up. …