The Elevator Mistrust
You're standing in front of the elevator. You pressed the button. The light is on. You're waiting. Then someone walks up and presses it again. Why? Can you not see it's already lit? Do you think I'm just standing here for fun?
Notes from the underground
Important questions, and everything else. Mostly everything else.
unwritten rules
Performance Review
Here I am at the airport again. Different city, same ritual. I needed the toilet. Side note — there's an entirely separate furious debate, raging among the world's leading intellectuals, about whether you use a toilet while someone is actively cleaning it. Sometimes there's a
chemistry
The First Time I Fell In Love
I joined Toastmasters Copenhagen in September 2024 because I believe public speaking is one of those skills that never stops mattering. When it came time for my ice breaker speech, there was only one story I wanted to tell. What I'm about to share with you is deeply
unwritten rules
Dinner Interrupted
The other night I went to an Italian restaurant with colleagues. They came from abroad to visit the Copenhagen office, and every year when that happens, we pick a restaurant together. We settled in, browsed the menu, and took in the place—warm lighting, good smells, the sound of clinking
perception
Artists Show You What Things Looked Like Before You Learned to Ignore Them
When you first encounter something, it's vivid, complex, alive. But you can't stay in that state — you'd never get anything done. Your brain is protecting you. So it teaches you to ignore it. You build a functional label that stands for the thing itself,
