Jan 29, 2021🔮 Will Nightlife & Travel Recover?Read the full post on substack. To look forward, let’s first look back… 👯♀️ The Roaring Twenties followed the 1918 pandemic. And the nightlife was epic! New music (Jazz), venues (Speakeasies), booze (Cocktails), dance-styles and fashions emerged, capturing the spirit of a new, prosperous decade. ✈️ The 1950s, following WWII…Nightlife2 min readNightlife2 min read
Jun 30, 2020What now? 🤔Introducing my newsletter 🗞 — I know I’m far from alone in saying that 2020 has been… challenging. I’m someone with bias for action and making things happen, but since covid, a family health scare and being laid-off from a dream job, I’ve been forced to pause and reflect. I’ve taken time to focus…Newsletter2 min readNewsletter2 min read
Jan 2, 2019A Year Without AlcoholStarting Your New Year’s Resolutions? Still Hungover? I Can Recommend Taking A Break From Alcohol — Here’s Why & How — I didn’t write this to try to persuade anyone to stop drinking. I like drinking and don’t think alcohol is bad. I just wanted to share my experience of taking a break, something that was right for me to do at the time. …Alcohol7 min readAlcohol7 min read
Dec 6, 2018New People, Places & ExperiencesIn Real Life — Are What Memories Are Made Of — What was the most memorable thing you saw on Social Media yesterday? This week? Month? Year? For me, it’s one big blur of 1000s of photos & videos, news, questions, comments, outrage, memes, jokes, chats, event invites, humble brags/self-promotion (including my own), and ads. Distraction. And noise. I think I…Social Media2 min readSocial Media2 min read
Aug 11, 2018LTP AH!(Leave The Phone At Home!) — I’ve started doing something recently: deliberately leaving my (i)Phone at home when I go out somewhere (I’m calling it ‘Leave The Phone At Home!’ or ‘LTP AH!’ for short). For example, if I go to the playground with my son, I sometimes decide to LTP AH! Running down the shops…Tech2 min readTech2 min read
Jul 3, 20186 Months Of No Alcohol 🚱How A ‘Dry January’ Continued For Half A Year (And Why I May Never Drink Again) 🤭 — For various reasons (mostly health and focus-related) I decided to take a break from drinking to start this year. First a month (‘Dry January’), then 100 days, then I just kept it going. …Alcohol8 min readAlcohol8 min read
Apr 25, 2018The Importance Of Social Connections At WorkRead more about the platform we’re building to solve this and to connect employees better socially: Join at Work.Work2 min readWork2 min read
Apr 18, 2018100+ Days Of No Alcohol 💯🌞🙅🏻🍺💪A lot has changed in my life over the past decade — from moving to Amsterdam (new friends, new things, new places, various jobs), to starting a startup, to living in New York (and Lisbon) for a while, to having a son. It’s often said that change is the only…Life Lessons9 min readLife Lessons9 min read
Apr 17, 2018Small Acts of Random KindnessI had moved to New York for Techstars, a tech accelerator, with my team at the end of 2016. And on the 1st morning of the accelerator, we were traveled in from Bushwick, on the subway. There was a delay on the subway, so we were almost running late, but…Kindness2 min readKindness2 min read
Mar 30, 2018A Little Less Capturing Attention & A Little Less Of Our Data PleaseDifferent Online Business Models - Make Money AND Be Good For Humanity — It’s becoming clearer (every day) that capturing people’s attention, and harvesting their personal data, is not very good for society. But despite the growing list of negatives (data breaches, people spending an increasing amount of time (too much?) online, how screens make us unhappy, and the extent to which teens…Business Models6 min readBusiness Models6 min read
