Optimistic Explorations on Life's Complex Challenges

Let’s go again. For a third year on row I did a kind of visual balance of my year in various dimensions. This time around, I added “Frameworks” to last […]

(Article written O Caracol Summer 2025 — the quarterly newsletter of the Degrowth Network) In January 2024, following a friend’s tip, I walked through a door on a street in […]

After 12 months since my last post, I did again an annual balance. This time, instead of a dashboard like last year, I focused on charts and notes. The goal […]

I love the way a number, chart or image can tell you something surprising or insightful about yourself. To get these data self-insights, I have been storing more and more […]

Done! Sixteen weeks of giving myself time to explore new, or in a deeper way, diverse dimensions of my life. In this post, I cover what I did, how it […]

May was the most mixed and uncharacteristic month of the Sabbatical. To be expected, since I did little preparing at the end of a family-intense April. To compensate for the […]

This post is longer, as it covers an entire month. April was a very different month from March, like March was different from February. I didn’t write a single post […]

I am Officially in the middle of my Sabbatical Leave. 8 weeks behind. 8 weeks to go. In this post, I look backward at achieved milestones and unplanned changes, trying […]

There is recent hype around Personal Habits and their power to improve our busy lives but, as with many other things now, something is not working as it should, and […]

In these two months of Sabbatical, I have done a lot of different reaching out to others. In brainstorming meetings, in reading several books and listening to podcasts, in writing […]