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		<title>Some Things Need Tuning, Others Need Leaving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s a certain kind of story the internet instantly falls for. You know the format: someone with just enough status to sound unquestionable, simplicity, a symbolic detail like a black coffee, a minimalist detail like a black coffee, and one sharp sentence delivered with enough detachment to pass for life philosophy: »I stopped adding sugar to things that were bitter.« It’s exactly the kind of line that spreads because it offers more than advice. It offers posture: standards, clarity, self-respect, no more pretending. Quotes like: »The most successful people don’t add sugar. They taste things as they are — and if it’s bitter, they stop drinking.« And to be fair, it works because it touches something real. People do spend a lot of time sweetening things that are not good for them. They stay in draining relationships, flattening jobs, and dynamics that quietly wear them down, and instead of naming the problem, they soften it with interpretation. They call it complicated, demanding, a phase, an opportunity to grow. In that sense, the quote names a &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>To Taste Everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[»Dump the first espresso of the day.« That was the advice, I saw in a reel the other day. A guy standing in a spotless kitchen, speaking with quiet authority. No drama, no irony. Just a clean instruction. Even if you single dose. Even if you weigh your beans to the tenth of a gram. The coffee sitting in the dead space of the grinder overnight will have oxidized. It will dull the shot. It is not worth drinking. My first reaction was not technical curiosity. It was a quiet sense of loss. Imagine starting your morning by pouring something warm and carefully prepared straight into the sink. A small ritual of control disguised as refinement. I thought: I would not even taste it. But maybe that is the point. Probably some people really can. There are palates that register the faint stale edge from yesterday’s grounds. People who notice when brightness turns flat by a margin most of us glide past. The same goes for sound, for smell, for texture. Some hear the subtle &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Time’s Not a Budget: Why Everything Happening at Once Exhausts Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s a kind of tiredness that has nothing to do with sleep. You wake up with it already installed. It feels less like exhaustion and more like static. Too many tabs open in the mind. Too many unfinished gestures. Too many tiny negotiations with the day before it has even started. For a while I thought this was just adulthood. Or work. Or the news cycle. Pick your villain. Then, a few weeks ago, I read Oliver Burkeman’s book Four Thousand Weeks. In one chapter, his basic claim is disarmingly simple: modern people don’t merely live in time, we treat time as something like a budget or a storage unit — something to fill efficiently, optimize, defend from waste. Hours become containers. Empty ones feel like failure. Overfull ones feel like guilt. Either way, we’re measuring constantly. Reading it, something clicked. Not because it was revolutionary, but because it named a background hum I’d stopped noticing. A few days later I stumbled across a long piece in Die ZEIT about people who had spent time &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Time, Not Distance: What Swiss Trails Taught Me About Estimating Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The trails in Switzerland don’t rush you. They invite you — past cowbells, into fir shade, up where the air turns glassy. Somewhere between a ridgeline and a mountain hut, a small yellow sign rewired how I think about work. In Switzerland the mountains are humble and the signs are honest. You don’t get »7.3 km to summit.« You get »Faulhorn 2 hours.« It’s a tiny design choice with a big opinion baked in: what matters to a hiker (or a runner) isn’t abstract distance — it’s the experience ahead. Grade, terrain, altitude, weather, your calves. Time is a proxy for all that complexity. Somewhere between a steep descent and a coffee at a mountain hut, I realized: we rarely give our teams signs like these. In the office we still love distances — ticket counts, points, lines of scope — or we love single crisp ETAs carved into meeting notes. And then we wonder why people under- or over-shoot, why promises feel brittle, and why everyone negotiates reality from under a pile of »quick« &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Decisions Are Like Coffee: How to Brew the Perfect Balance Between Time Pressure and Quality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2023 10:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Part 1: Extracting the Essence The coffee I make at home tastes far better than most of the coffees I drink in the city. Even those from top-notch roasteries sometimes don’t compare to mine. This isn’t about arrogance—I’m not a superior barista, neither do I have higher-quality beans. And even though my espresso machine is an excellent Italian portafilter model, it doesn’t quite match most professional machines. So, why does my coffee taste so much better? It comes down to one simple reason: time. I have the luxury to weigh my beans to the nearest tenth of a gram every time and grind them according to their specific type and roast. I can thoroughly clean the portafilter, evenly distribute the coffee grounds, break up clumps with a specialized tool, and carefully tamp down. I can closely observe the flow rate and stop the extraction at the perfect moment. Most baristas in roasteries and cafes don’t have this luxury—they’re under constant time pressure, as customers don’t like waiting for their hot beverages. Consequently, they can’t work &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Power of Physical Activity: Performance and Health in the Workplace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2023 12:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Welcome to one of your typical workdays, filled with deadlines, meetings, and countless emails. Amidst the daily grind, it’s easy to forget about taking care of our physical well-being. But what if engaging in regular physical activity could not only improve our health but also make us more effective and creative in our jobs? A recent study published in Personnel Psychology suggests that incorporating physical activity into our daily routines might be changing our views on job performance and overall health. The study, conducted by Yolanda Na Li, Bonnie Hayden Cheng, Bingjie Yu, and Julie N. Y. Zhu, explores the relationship between autonomous motivation, daily physical activity, job performance, and health. The researchers used the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory as their foundation. This psychological framework suggests that individuals strive to acquire, maintain, and protect their valuable resources. When people lose resources or invest heavily in maintaining them, they may experience stress and burnout. On the other hand, increasing resources can lead to better well-being and performance. No motivation needed The study’s hypotheses were tested &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>A formula for essential questions in our everyday lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2023 12:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The COVID-19 pandemic was a sad but perfect opportunity to engage with mathematics. Suddenly, we were all confronted with incidence rates, overwhelmed with statistics, and had to deal with probabilities. On a very personal level, with the likelihood of getting infected or the question of how reliable the newly developed COVID-19 tests were. Questions that could decide on freedom, health, and for some even on life and death. Without mathematical knowledge, however, none of these questions can be properly answered. Here is a concrete example: «According to the manufacturer, a COVID-19 rapid test offers a 95 percent probability of correctly detecting a COVID-19 infection. Conversely, the test falsely indicates a positive result with a probability of 2 percent. Now let’s assume you test positive while COVID-19 currently has a prevalence (proportion of people in the population who are infected at that time) of one percent (a value quite realistic for the peaks of the COVID-19 waves): What do you think is the probability that the test is correct?» At first glance and intuitively, many people &#8230;]]></description>
		
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