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Hello everyone, Welcome back to your favorite blog about modern life! I hope you are doing well. Before we peace out into the weekend, we would like to close off this week with an insightful video. Maur is questioning the perks of the modern life concept we are being told is the right way to go and also asks whether there are any perks if we live as isolated as we are supposed to in 2026.  A great video to make you think. 🧠 Our take: the promotion of hyper-individualism can turn isolation and loneliness into something we are taught to see as freedom, independence or success. When in reality, we are built for connection, community and belonging, to share our lives with others, in person. No man or woman is an island. So ask yourself: to meet this promoted 'ideal', you follow the script, but are you truly doing well in this setup? At the end of the day, you only have one life, so who are you trying to impress, what are you really chasing and is it not time to truly connect? Als...

Guys - It's a Movement! Take Back the Web: Why Switching to Brave Matters For years, we've been told that Google's tracking, Meta's surveillance-driven advertising, YouTube's algorithms and Big Tech's enormous appetite for personal data are simply the price of using the internet. They aren't. We have been conditioned to accept a web where a handful of enormous corporations monitor our behavior, profile our interests, compete for our attention and turn our personal information into an incredibly valuable commercial asset. The problem isn't just one company. It's the model. And if we want that model to change, we need to stop treating our own participation as inevitable. Brave browser for your phone -  brave.com Switching to Brave is a small act of resistance Changing your browser might sound insignificant. But it is one of the easiest places to start. Brave is designed to block many of the trackers, advertising technologies, cross-site tracking mechan...

Hello everyone, Welcome back to your favorite blog about family friendly movie recommendations.  If you loved Knives Out like we did (but only the first one - the other two we won’t even mention) and also have a soft spot for Babe the speaking piglet, t his film was made for you!  It is set in Denbrook a small picturesque town in the Irish countryside, where people still live a more traditional, analog life - like our main character, George the shepherd. He is frequently reading whodunit stories to his sheep. When someone on this movie poster gets eliminated in a mysterious way, the sheep set out to solve the mystery.  This movie is out in cinemas now and, depending on your location, might be available on Prime Video. Given the lack of good new (family friendly) movies these days, we just had to recommend this one.  🐑 S uitable for ages 6 and up.  After watching it, we must say a few unanswered questions remain.  It definitely brings out your inner ...

This concludes our Big Tech Invasion awareness campaign for now, but not before we share what corporate,  marketing and UX language really means. This text was written by chatgpt entirely - after using a simple question as the prompt. If a CEO Won't Let Their Own Children Use Their Own Product,  We Should Be Paying Attention Imagine building a product used by hundreds of millions of people. Imagine standing before investors and celebrating record growth, increased user retention, and unprecedented engagement. Now imagine refusing to let your own children use it. At that point, we are no longer discussing a parenting choice. We are discussing a moral choice. A warning label doesn't always come in writing. Sometimes it looks like a CEO who built a billion-dollar platform and then refuses to let his own children use it. When that happens, we should stop listening to what the company says and start paying attention to what its leaders do. The Question Nobody Wants to Ask When th...

Hello everybody, Welcome back to your favorite blog about independent journalism.  This blog will turn 14 in September! 🎉 ☺️ Over the years, this space has grown in a very natural way. What started as a personal project, some thoughts, observations and creative work shared freely, has slowly evolved into something more intentional. The topics have become deeper, the research more extensive and the time behind certain pieces… significantly longer. Some of you have been here for a while. Others found this blog more recently. Either way, I have always tried to keep this space open, thoughtful and independent. That part isn’t changing. What is changing slightly is how I will be sharing some of the longer, more in-depth work going forward. Introducing: Deep Dive Assessments From time to time, I work on topics that require a much deeper level of research, structure and reflection than a regular post allows. These are not quick reads. They take time to explore, write, edit and honestly,...

Hello everybody, Welcome back to your favorite blog about white water rafting! Who knew. I hope you are all doing well. I want to give you a little update without getting too specific.  I started a new creative project last year. Like with every new project I can not really talk about it yet. First I will have to put the time in, so it can evolve and progress.  But if you are interested, I will let you know when it is ready. This project is actually aimed at families and children but everyone is invited to visit this magical world. It involves a lot of nature and animals with special gifts, When I think back at my creative beginnings,  songwriting came first, I wrote my first song when I was 15 years old. I recorded music and worked with different songwriters, rappers and producers. Self expression was especially crucial in those early, creative years.  You are in flow state and don't even notice the passage of time. This is how you know, that is your thing to do. I ...