Over the last few weeks, I was happy to stumble on a few familiar topics on other places around the internet. To begin with, it looks like James Altucher beats me when it comes to the long haul: Time it takes to reinvent yourself: five years. Here’s a description of the five years: Year One: […]
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Experiment as Method: A New Room in My House
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson Old Ralph Waldo cuts it once again. Its’s time for some more experimentation in my life, and it will happen on the web! For quite some time already had I pondered to radically expand the visuals category here on the […]
Nightowlism: The First Two Weeks
It’s 11:24pm and I am working. I must be doing something right. In three words, nightowlism is awesome. It’s also quite challenging, to be honest. Here are a few remarks, two weeks into my experiment of working at night. Get earplugs. The first day was… well, the first day. Highly motivated, highly engaged. I got […]
The (Un)Productive Night Owl: An Experiment
If the early bird catches the worm, the best thing the worm can do is to sleep in, and leave his home late in the evening – until he gets caught by a night owl, that is. Yet although there are probably more people that prefer staying up late over getting up early, our society […]
Deliberately Dilettante
There certainly is a case to be made for experts. When it comes to heart surgery, I absolutely want the doctor to be a specialist, an expert, and to know what he’s doing. I wouldn’t want to have it done by a heart surgery enthusiast that discusses days and nights in online bulletin boards about […]