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Passion Still Means Work

There’s this constant drone that you need only follow your passion, and you won’t have to work; you have your reasons, results will follow; you set priorities, and...

How To Do a Past Year Review – Insights from Looking Back at a Good/Bad Life

With another year ending, a new year beginning, there’s all the usual talk about New Year’s resolutions – or avoiding them in favor of, for example, doing a...

My Body, the Astra-Zeneca COVID Vaccine, and Health Tracking

At the beginning of March, I got my first shot of the much-discussed Astra-Zeneca vaccine – and it was a great chance to compare between personal feeling and what different wearables with health tracking features showed: a Garmin, a Suunto, and t...

The Suunto 7 as Microexploration Tool

For my approach of microexploration – looking closer, learning more, getting at home in this world – I have been finding some of the disadvantages and problems of WearOS devices to be more than made-up for by the advantages. The Outdoors Pr...

Social Media Is Not Your Participation in the Public Sphere

Democracy, the way its story is told in the mythology of Western civilization, began with the Athenian agora. The marketplace. Only here, people didn’t just trade goods, they also met to make political – “community” – deci...

Biology, Lifes Fragility – and Its Affirmation

Having learned more and more of biology has made me fairly anxious. Getting older isn’t helping, either. What, Me Worry? Most people live as if the world simply were as it is, as if a body – their body – just functioned. If anything h...

The Normality of 2020

2020 has felt far from normal. Yet, it is not a break with normality. It is a break with recent baselines and a return to what has been normal. The Not-Normal Lockdowns, social isolation and stressful interaction on social media are not the usual. Mask...

Playing with Wolves

… in run-photography fashion, with the wolves sculptures by Liu Ruowang in front of Palazzo Pitti. When I last visited Florence, this piece of public art was installed there – and I could not resist a bit of fun with it, on a morning run. A...

Microexploration: World (Food) Travel In Your Kitchen

The very idea of traveling somewhere just for the food – a rising category not long ago – seems rather decadent right now. At the same time, though, we should remember and (micro)explore the connections that food represents! “Strange&...