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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>In the Dark, Organizations See Eigengrau</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Try this tonight. Turn off the lights, close the curtains, and wait until the room is as dark as it gets. Then keep your eyes open and look into the darkness. You might expect to see black — complete absence, the visual equivalent of silence. But that is not what happens. Instead, a faint grey appears. No shapes, no contours, just a dim and uniform field hovering in front of your eyes. In German there is a word for this phenomenon: Eigengrau, literally »intrinsic grey.« It describes the subtle brightness we perceive even when no light reaches the eye. Vision science explains why. Even in complete darkness the retina does not fall silent. Photoreceptors continue to fire occasionally, neurons remain active, and the brain interprets this background activity as a minimal level of brightness. What we perceive, in other words, is not the world but the baseline activity of our own perceptual system. We never see pure darkness. We see Eigengrau. Noise: perception always starts with a baseline One of the central insights of perceptual &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Free somebody</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You did everything right. You studied. You worked hard. You built the résumé people told you to build. Degree, internships, late nights, promotions. The quiet promise behind all of it was simple: if you put in the effort, you would eventually gain something that feels like freedom. More autonomy. More room to decide how to live. More control over your time. For a long time that story made sense. Work hard, move up, become free. But for many people today, that promise feels strangely hollow. The ladder is still there, but climbing it doesn’t necessarily lead to the place it once promised. Careers have become less predictable. Work has intensified. Security often feels temporary. You can follow the script perfectly and still end up wondering where exactly that promised freedom is supposed to appear. Which makes a sentence by Toni Morrison feel unexpectedly sharp: »I tell my students, ›When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need &#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>Welcome to the Hiring Simulator — the Strategy Game Nobody Enjoys</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s this story we keep telling about the job market: it’s tough out there. Fine. I can live with that. And I’m saying this as someone currently in it — reorienting on the way to my next role. I’m having conversations, doing calls, sending applications, waiting, looking closely at what’s out there. And there’s this slightly surreal experience of trying to meet a system where it is, without letting it define me. But first, let me be clear: I get it. Fewer openings, more applicants, smart people competing for the same roles — that’s real. Labor markets have always been cyclical, and economists have data for that. What doesn’t make sense is the vibe. Scrolling through my feeds lately feels less like »people looking for work« and more like watching a weird strategy game. Everyone is min-maxing their character build. And I’m not exempt — I catch myself doing it, too. You start out thinking you’ll just be honest and clear, and two weeks later you’re squinting at job ads like they’re riddles, asking yourself &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>When Silence Becomes Signal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I posted on LinkedIn that my current role is coming to an end and that I’m exploring what’s next. The response was generous. Messages. Comments. Encouragement. The kind of digital warmth that makes you believe platforms can still be relational spaces. And then, as always, the curve flattened. Which is normal. Attention spikes and fades. That’s how feeds work. But I noticed something subtle: I began to hesitate before opening LinkedIn. Not because I feared missing something. Because I feared there would be nothing. That small pause — that fraction of a second before tapping the icon — felt strangely revealing. It was weird. The Fear of Non-Response We’ve become fluent in the language of FOMO — the fear of missing out. The concept was formally defined by Andrew K. Przybylski and colleagues as »a pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent«. But what I felt was almost the opposite. It was the fear of non-response. What if no one commented today? What if &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Not AI Is the Threat — People Are</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[»I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism.« When I read that line from Ted Chiang recently, it landed because it pulls the mask off the monster. A lot of what we call »fear of AI« is really fear of incentives: who funds the systems, who deploys them, who benefits when they scale, and who gets hurt when they fail. Still, I don’t think »capitalism« is the final layer of the explanation. Capitalism doesn’t appear out of nowhere like weather. It’s a set of rules, norms, and defaults people agree on (or tolerate) and then keep reinforcing. Depending on how those rules are written and enforced, you get very different outcomes: extractive versions that squeeze people, and constructive versions that build real value. Either way, it’s a human project. So if we keep pushing the question back — who shaped the incentives, who chose the trade-offs, who decided what counts as »efficient« — we end up at the same place: people. That framing matters because we talk &#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>Do the Homework Before the Hype</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s something mildly absurd about modern running tech. Every brand talks about AI now. Smart coaching, predictive training plans, readiness scores, recovery scores, stress scores, you name it. My watch apparently knows my future. It just doesn’t know what happened five minutes ago. Take heart rate. I run with a chest strap or the wrist sensor, doesn’t matter. Every now and then the data goes completely off the rails. Suddenly my pulse jumps to 190 while I’m jogging easy, stays there for three minutes, then drops back like nothing happened. No hill, no sprint, no drama. Just noise. Same with GPS. Clean route along the river, then one glitch and the track cuts straight through buildings like I teleported. The device shrugs and saves it as truth. I can live with imperfect sensors. Sweat, movement, bad satellite reception — physics is messy. What I don’t get is why all that so-called intelligence doesn’t clean up the mess afterwards. Because statistically speaking, this is the easy part. Outliers are not some exotic phenomenon. They’re textbook stuff. &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hello, Today!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today is January 1st. Not a good day for looking back on the year that has just ended. I’ve already spent a lot of time doing that — revisiting what I experienced, the successes and the wounds, the progress and the setbacks, taking a closer look at encounters and goodbyes, taking stock. Today, I don’t want to do it again. Nor is today a good day for looking ahead to the year that has just begun. Too much is still uncertain. Vague. Too many decisions haven’t been made yet, and countless possibilities probably haven’t even crossed my mind. Today — January 1st — is a perfect day to be lived consciously. To be present, in the truest sense of the word. To enjoy what is right now, and what isn’t. And to be grateful. I woke up today in good spirits. I’m healthy — apart from a few minor things. And those minor things are being taken care of. I live in a country where the occasional injury doesn’t pose a serious risk. I woke &#8230;]]></description>
		
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