Měsíc: Únor 2026

Why I Watch the Olympics — and Why It’s Worth It

The Olympics aren’t just a sports broadcast. They’re a reminder of what matters — in sport, and in life. They only come around every two years. Here’s how to actually experience them — not just watch them.

I was seven years old during Nagano 1998. The Czech hockey team won gold. I still remember sitting in front of the TV that morning. I didn’t fully understand the weight of what was happening.

We beat Russia. And the only goal was scored by a player named Svoboda — which in Czech means freedom. Thirty years after the Soviet invasion during the Prague Spring of 1968. Less than ten years after the Velvet Revolution.

The goal came at 48:08 — and the symbolism ran even deeper, because we lost our freedom in 1948. Now the squares were full again, celebrating something unbelievable. And what followed was pure hockey mania.

Yes, for us Czechs, it carries extra meaning. I have tears in my eyes just writing this. That was my first Olympics. Everything since has been measured against it.

1. Your Biggest Opponent Is Usually Yourself — the Beauty of Pushing Your Limits

The Olympics aren’t just beautiful sport on a screen. They personally motivate me to push myself. To add reps at the gym and hit progressive overload. To run a little further and chase a personal best. To win the weekly or monthly step challenge with friends in our smartwatch app.

And it all reminds me: the point isn’t to beat others. It’s to beat yourself. To become a slightly better version of who you were yesterday. To feel good about doing a little better than last time. Worth remembering every time you don’t feel like training.

2. It’s Emotional Training

Sport is like life. Sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down. It teaches you to lose. It gives you moments of unexpected joy.

Four minutes before the end of the third period, your team is leading by one against star-studded Canada — a team of NHL superstars. You start to believe. You let yourself dream that maybe this time we’ll do it again, like Nagano. And then an unnecessary goal. Equalizer. Overtime. Canada scores. It’s over. All the hope, gone. You have to sit with it. Accept the disappointment. And move on. (We Czechs can still cheer for Slovakia — but it’s just not the same.)

And then there’s the other side. Just as powerful. Someone nobody expected suddenly makes it. When Ester Ledecká didn’t deliver, Zuzana Maděrová took the gold. And then a completely unexpected bronze for Tereza Voborníková in biathlon — which for a moment even looked like gold. Pure euphoria. Pride. Disbelief. Those feelings are incredible.

3. When You Come From a Small Country, Every Medal Means Everything

Almost the whole nation suddenly comes together. Cheering. Connected by pride in our athletes. When gold comes, our beautiful national anthem plays — in front of the whole world. When you’re a small country, there aren’t many moments when millions of people feel exactly the same thing at the same time. A medal is one of them. Tears, pride, goosebumps. Not divisive nationalism — genuine national pride. The good kind.

4. You Can Enjoy Other People’s Success Too

But it’s not only about your own country. Watching others succeed is great too. Seeing absolute top professionals perform what looks like superhuman feats. Watching world and Olympic records fall. Cheering on athletes who should have retired years ago but keep winning. Witnessing the rise of new stars. Seeing the shared joy and genuine friendship between competitors — especially in snowboarding. That alone is worth watching for.

5. The Schedule and Stats Are Part of the Fun

Following your favourite disciplines. Ranking your favourite sports so you know what to focus on next time. Tracking the medal table. Watching on TV, following live text updates, checking Wikipedia, teletext, or the official Olympics app. Buying a printed sports magazine with the full schedule and athlete interviews in advance. All of it is worth it.

6. Enjoy the Beauty of the Host Venues

The view of stunning mountains in clear winter sun. A brand-new hockey arena. Sweeping shots of the host city’s skyline, its iconic landmarks, its busy streets. That’s beauty worth savouring.

7. The Opening and Closing Ceremonies Deserve Your Full Attention

Music, spectacle, art, fashion. All the nations walking in. Speeches from officials and heads of state. A reminder of what the Olympic idea actually stands for: the harmonious development of people, human dignity, fair play, and peace between nations — without discrimination. Kalokagathia (balance of body and mind) and ekecheiria (peace). Universal values that could, at least for a moment, unite all of humanity.

8. A Reality Check on How Fast Time Passes

The Olympics happen every four years — or every two, alternating winter and summer.

You can always do the maths: how old were you at the last one? How old will you be at the next? It’s almost 30 years since the first Games I watched. I’ll be over 60 when the gap is that long again. And time moves faster every year. Though maybe AI will make us live forever. If we’re still around at all.

9. The Excitement at the Start, the Sadness at the End

Just as you feel excitement and anticipation when the Games begin, you feel a quiet, nostalgic sadness when they end. But that sadness is part of what makes it meaningful and rare.

And at the same time — you can already look forward to the next ones. Not just the Paralympics. Not just the next Summer Games in two-plus years. But the next Winter Olympics in four. This time back on home continent — maybe worth going in person. And in eight years, somewhere on another continent entirely. That’s the beauty of it. And who knows — maybe one day, here at home.

10. A Practical Checklist for Next Time

Nothing left now but to make sure the next Olympics are even better. Here’s my short checklist:

  • Find out which athletes from your country have qualified and what their chances are
  • Look back at how your country has done historically — Wikipedia is great for this
  • Get the schedule in advance and decide which sports and disciplines you want to follow
  • Buy the sports magazine with the TV programme
  • Watch the Opening and Closing Ceremonies properly — full attention
  • Use the Olympics app; turn on notifications for the two weeks
  • Rank your favourite sports and learn the rules of the ones you don’t know well
  • Follow your favourite sports fully, even when your country isn’t in the mix
  • Check the medal table and key stats every day
  • Look up the arenas and venues — some are worth knowing
  • Enjoy and feel every medal moment from your country — not just the gold ones
  • Come back to this article before the next Games and get excited all over again
  • Now, get away from the TV and go out—walk, run, and break your own records!

See you next time — under the Olympic flame and the five rings. Hopefully with the NHL players again.

A Four-Day Workweek Should Have Been the Global Standard Already

Let’s be honest: the way we work today is not normal.
It’s a historical relic, a biological mistake, and a moral failure.

The eight-hour workday was a huge victory—more than a century ago. In the age of factories, smoke, assembly lines, and children working in mines, reducing work from 12 or 14 hours a day was a triumph of human dignity. People fought for it, and rightly so.

But then we froze in time.

The world changed. Technology exploded. Productivity skyrocketed. And we stayed exactly where we were. Most people don’t actually work eight hours anymore anyway. They work nine, ten, sometimes twelve, once you count commuting, late-night emails, constant availability, and the mental exhaustion that follows them home.

This isn’t progress.
It’s inertia disguised as work ethic.

Humans Were Never Designed for This

For most of human history, people did not spend their days locked into continuous labor. Anthropological research suggests that hunter-gatherers often met their basic needs with just a few hours of work per day. The rest of the time, they lived: they moved, socialized, rested, thought.

Then came agriculture.
Then industry.
Then the information economy.

And with each step, we started working more, not less. Not because we had to, but because our systems forgot how to stop.

Sitting All Day Is a Biological Error

Sitting all day is fundamentally unnatural. There’s no polite way to say it.

The human body is not built for eight hours in a chair, staring at a screen, under artificial light, breathing recycled air, barely moving, constantly switching attention. Prolonged sitting is linked to heart disease, diabetes, chronic pain, depression, and premature death. And no, going to the gym after work does not fully undo the damage.

Add to that constant screen exposure, poor posture, and climate-controlled environments that ignore natural light and airflow, and we’ve engineered a daily routine that quietly works against human health.

This isn’t about comfort.
It’s about public health.

Working Less Actually Works

And here’s the part that really matters: we already know a better system works.

Whenever the four-day workweek is tested, the results repeat themselves. Productivity stays the same or improves. Stress drops. Burnout declines. Sick days decrease. Employee retention goes up.

Over and over again, the same lesson emerges: exhausted people are not effective people.

Working fewer hours doesn’t mean doing less.
It means doing what actually matters.

AI Removes the Last Excuse

Artificial intelligence removes the last remaining excuse.

Machines are increasingly able to do routine work faster and cheaper than humans. This can either become the greatest liberation in human history—or the greatest concentration of wealth and power we’ve ever seen.

Either the gains go to a small group at the top, or we collectively decide to shorten the workweek for everyone. Technology was supposed to free us. Instead, we used it to keep ourselves permanently online.

This Is a Moral Question, Not an Economic One

The real question isn’t whether we can afford to work less.
It’s why we’re still willing to accept a system that drains people of time, energy, health, and meaning.

Why do we consider it normal that people barely see their children during the week? That they have no energy for relationships? That evenings are spent in a fog of fatigue? That so much of life is consumed by work that is often pointless?

A four-day workweek.
A six-hour day. Maybe even four.
A ban on unnecessary night shifts.
Ergonomics as a standard, not a perk.

These are not radical demands.
They are the baseline of a modern, humane society.

Nothing Changes Unless We Demand It

Working hours have never been reduced because elites suddenly felt generous. Every meaningful change happened because people organized, applied pressure, and refused to accept the status quo.

Progress has never come from waiting politely.

The four-day workweek isn’t a fantasy.
It’s an overdue update to a system that no longer matches reality.

And every year we delay, we lose something we can never get back.

Our time.

14 Ideas to Make Your Valentine’s Day Unforgettable

(Make it 14 Days, Not Just One Day)

Imagine waking up to a home transformed by love—soft candlelight flickering in the windows, heart-shaped notes scattered like breadcrumbs leading to sweet surprises, and two whole weeks stretching ahead filled with romance, laughter, and connection.

What if Valentine’s Day wasn’t just a single 24-hour scramble for dinner reservations, but a celebration woven into every ordinary moment?

Picture yourself hand-in-hand on a snowy mountain getaway, feeding each other ice cream at your favorite café, or dancing in your kitchen to a song that’s become „yours.“

This is your invitation to reimagine Valentine’s Day—not as one pressured evening, but as a beautiful, intentional journey through 14 days of love.

Start on February 1st and make each day special leading up to Valentine’s Day.

1. Create a DIY Countdown Calendar (February 1st)

Start the celebration early! Make a countdown calendar and do something thoughtful for each other every single day. Small gestures matter—leave notes, prepare favorite snacks, or share a meaningful moment together.

2. Transform Your Home with Valentine’s Décor (Early February)

Embrace the romantic atmosphere with festive decorations in red, pink, or even black and red if that’s more your style:

  • Fresh flowers on tables
  • Themed tablecloths and napkins
  • Valentine’s bedding and decorative pillows
  • Special Valentine’s mugs
  • Romantic phone and computer wallpapers
  • Festive clothing or accessories
  • A DIY heart wreath for your door
  • Candles throughout the house (windows, front porch, back porch)
  • Paper heart garlands
  • Ribbons, bows, and curtain accents

3. Collect and Share Love Quotes (Throughout the 14 Days)

Discover meaningful quotes about love together and share them with each other. Write them on sticky notes, text them randomly, or create a shared collection you can revisit for years to come.

4. Read a Romantic Book Together (Ongoing)

Choose a love story to read individually or aloud to each other. Discuss your favorite parts and what resonates with your own relationship. Or simply curl up on the couch under a blanket, each reading your own book while leaning against each other.

5. Create Art Together (Mid-Week Activity)

Paint or draw something meaningful—perhaps a portrait of each other, a scene from a favorite memory, or an abstract piece representing your love.

6. Enjoy a Valentine’s Brunch (Weekend Before February 14th)

Start your weekend with a leisurely brunch featuring heart-shaped pancakes, waffles, fresh berries, whipped cream, and raspberry jam. Take turns preparing it each year.

7. Plan a Romantic Weekend Getaway (Weekend Before Valentine’s Day)

Escape together to a hotel, a mountain cabin to enjoy the snow, or fly somewhere warm for a beach picnic and sunshine. Choose whatever setting helps you reconnect—whether that’s cozy winter vibes or tropical relaxation.

Be intimate, and focus entirely on each other. Reminisce about when you first fell in love, avoid discussing problems or conflicts, and simply be kind and present with one another.

Or go bigger—book a longer getaway somewhere warm, just the two of you (yes, without the kids).

Also, you can take a spontaneous road trip. Pack snacks, create a playlist, and just drive. Explore small towns, stop at roadside diners, and enjoy being on the road together without a rigid destination.

8. Take a Romantic Walk (Mid-Week)

Stroll together through a park or along a river. Hold hands, talk, and enjoy each other’s company without distractions.

9. Watch Romantic Movies and Shows (Throughout the Week)

Cuddle up for a romantic film—either a new one or a beloved favorite. Don’t forget to watch Valentine’s episodes of your favorite TV series!

10. Visit a Café and Share Dessert (Midweek Date)

Go to a pastry shop or ice cream parlor and share a sundae. Be playful and feed each other like you’re newly in love all over again.

11. Bake Valentine’s Treats Together (A Few Days Before)

Make heart-shaped cookies with pink frosting, Valentine’s cupcakes, or any sweet treats you both enjoy. The process might be as sweet as the result.

12. Exchange Love Letters (Throughout the 14 Days)

Write heartfelt letters to each other in pink envelopes tied with red ribbons. Express why you love them, what you appreciate about them, what you’re grateful for from the past year, and the beautiful moments you’ve shared. These become treasured keepsakes.

Throughout the 14 days, leave handwritten notes on hearts-shaped paper around the house—on the bed, in the bathroom, kitchen, living room—with messages like „I love you,“ „You are amazing,“ „Today is your day, baby.“ Write love notes with your finger on the steamy shower mirror.

Want to make it even more special? Write a letter together to your future selves—seal it and open it next Valentine’s Day, or in five years. Reflect on your dreams, hopes, and the love you share right now.

13. Valentine’s Dinner Out (A Different Night Than Everyone Else)

Avoid the February 14th restaurant rush—make reservations for a different evening. Dress up in your finest attire (perhaps a suit with a red tie and pink shirt, or a stunning evening gown). Or attend a concert, theater performance, or symphony instead.

14. The Valentine’s Day Itself (February 14th)

Take the day off from work! Consider having someone watch the kids, or involve them in the celebration.

Morning:

  • Breakfast in bed with heart-shaped pancakes or waffles, whipped cream, strawberries, and raspberry jam.
  • Exchange flowers you know each other loves.
  • Give each other a card or Valentine with a loving message.

During the Day:

  • Set the romantic mood with your favorite love songs (French chansons on a record player, a custom mixtape on cassette, or an AI-generated playlist through apps like Suno).
  • If one of you plays piano, guitar, or sings, surprise your partner with a live private concert.
  • Enjoy gourmet chocolates, Belgian pralines, or a special dessert (try something different each year: conversation hearts, marshmallows, lollipops, marzipan roses).
  • Recite love poetry to each other or compose your own.
  • Review your couple’s vision if you have one.
  • Look through your couple photo album together.
  • Snack on fruit cut into heart shapes (bananas, kiwis).
  • Make a salad with vegetables arranged in heart patterns.

Afternoon:

  • Go for a Valentine’s run together (you know, burn off the calories from all those sweet cheat meals).
  • Enjoy a private Valentine’s party at home with themed cocktails or pink/red wine (preferably non-alcoholic if you’re keeping the Dry February challenge).

Evening:

  • Slow dance in your living room, share long hugs, steal kisses throughout the day, and cuddle on the couch.
  • Prepare a romantic dinner at home, especially if one of you is an introvert who would probably enjoy the intimacy more than a crowded restaurant.
  • Exchange small gifts (and every few years, perhaps a sweet stuffed animal).
  • Take a candlelit bubble bath together and care for each other.

Before Bed:

A Note on Valentine’s Day

Yes, Valentine’s Day has become commercialized, but that doesn’t mean you have to reject it entirely. February can feel long and gray with limited sunshine—why not embrace the excuse to celebrate love? Take advantage of Valentine’s sales and special offers if they work for you. The holiday is what you make of it.

Final Thoughts

Take this as inspiration, not a list of obligations. Each year, pick what resonates with you both, or share this list with your partner and ask what they’d enjoy. Better yet, surprise them with something you know they’d appreciate. The key is making each day leading up to Valentine’s feel special, intentional, and filled with love.

P.S. Can’t start on February 1st? No problem—start on the 14th and stretch the celebration through the end of the month (February 28th or 29th). The point is to make love a daily practice, not a single-day event.

So, how do you love celebrating your ideal Valentine’s Day? Any other tips or traditions that have worked for you? I’d love to hear what makes your celebration special.

But What If We Truly Could Live Almost Forever?

Just imagine.
In the 20th century, we doubled the length of human life. Maybe we could do it again. But thanks to AI, not in a century—rather in a decade. Exponentially. Over and over again.

That thought alone feels almost unreal.

In fact, it was a text by Dario Amodei that pushed me to seriously think about this. He argues that AI-enabled biology and medicine could radically compress scientific progress:

In other words: what normally takes a lifetime of research might soon take just a few years.

“My basic prediction is that AI-enabled biology and medicine will allow us to compress the progress that human biologists would have achieved over the next 50–100 years into 5–10 years. I’ll refer to this as the ‘compressed 21st century’.”

And when you look at life expectancy, the numbers suddenly stop feeling so crazy.

As Amodei also writes:

“This might seem radical, but life expectancy increased almost 2x in the 20th century (from ~40 years to ~75), so it’s ‘on trend’ that the ‘compressed 21st’ would double it again to 150.”

A Compressed Century

So let’s count.

If human life expectancy went from roughly 40 years to around 75 in the 20th century, doubling it again puts us somewhere near 150 years.

And not in the year 2100—but possibly within the next decade or two.

If powerful AI continues to improve, this progress likely wouldn’t stop there. One medical breakthrough would quickly lead to another. Aging itself might become something we continuously push back, slow down, or partially reverse.

We might not just live longer. We might stay younger.

That sounds like science fiction. Maybe fantasy. But there are already living organisms on Earth that live hundreds, thousands, or even millions of years. Yes, their biology is very different from ours—but for the first time in history, we are seriously talking about changing our own.

Better cells. Repaired DNA. Bodies that don’t inevitably fall apart.

And that’s where things stop being just exciting—and start being complicated.

What If We Stopped Dying?

The real question isn’t only can we live almost forever.
It’s what happens if we do.

What happens to Earth if people stop dying?

Today, we worry about demographic decline. About not having enough babies. About aging populations and shrinking societies. But what if the problem flipped?

What if people stayed healthy and young for much longer—and could have children not only in their 50s, 60s, or 70s, as already happens today—but far later?

Someone could decide in their 120s, 250s, or even 500s that they are finally bored with single life, done with casual dating, and want to settle down.

Other people wouldn’t have just two kids. Or three. Or five. They could have 20, 50, or 100 children—spread across centuries.

From today’s perspective, that sounds absurd. But so did the internet. So did in vitro fertilization. So did a global pandemic that shut down the entire world.

Crazy times usually feel crazy mainly because we’re standing inside them.

Maybe this, too, would become a new normal—sooner than we expect.

So the question is, my fellow human:

What would you actually do with your life if you could live almost forever?

  • How many books would you finally read—or write?
  • Would you live faster, trying everything, or slower, knowing there’s no rush?
  • How wisely would you invest your money if time worked in centuries, not decades?
  • How many different jobs or careers would you try?
  • How many new fields or disciplines would you want to study?
  • How many life partners would you have over hundreds of years?
  • How many children would feel meaningful?
  • How many planets would you want to visit?
  • And how would you make sure you remember any of it—or decide what to forget?

Two Futures, Both Possible

Right now, we can barely imagine how extraordinary the future ahead of us might be.

Or maybe we’ll fail. Maybe we’ll build something we don’t fully understand. Maybe we’ll lose control. Maybe we’ll let AI destroy us—and we’ll all be dead by 2035.

Both futures feel disturbingly plausible.

A near-endless life wouldn’t just change how long we live. It would quietly rewrite what love, ambition, boredom, and meaning even are.

What We Can Do Now

But before—or if ever—AI makes this a reality, we can already take inspiration from people who live longer and healthier lives today.

From places like the Blue Zones, where people routinely live past 100.

Or from modern longevity protocols focused on movement, nutrition, sleep, and mental health.

Even without radical technology, we can already live better.

And if one day we truly gain more time, the question won’t just be how long we live—but whether we’ve learned how to use it.

How We’ll Make a Living When AI Does All the Work

If AI is not just another technology that replaces some jobs while many new ones are created, then we will need a new economic model.

Quite possibly, AI itself will invent and implement such a model. But until it does, let us invent and implement it as humans. It is high time.

It is quite possible that we will not need to replace our current market-capitalist model with a social role of the state at all.

Let us imagine a world in which AI (together with physical robots) can already perform all human work better than any human. And more cheaply. Quite simply, as humans we will no longer be market-competitive.

We may even prefer that some work continues to be done by humans.

But for that to be possible, we must figure out how to finance it. How to ensure that broad segments of society can obtain income and wealth from something other than their non-competitive labor.

Several options present themselves, and we should consider the pros and cons of each and possibly combine them.

UBI

One option is the classic unconditional universal basic income. It would probably be appropriate for it to come from both global and national taxes.

UHI

Another is the newly discussed universal high income — for example, so that every person on the planet could live as well as today’s upper middle class in the United States or Western Europe.

This would, however, require significantly more sustainable use of resources. But AI may also help us solve this problem.

Wealth and income inequalities would still exist. Not everyone can have a seafront apartment overlooking the ocean.

Conditional income

Perhaps there should also be an additional bonus in the form of conditional income. For example, people who engage in lifelong learning, volunteer work, participate in elections, attend regular preventive health checkups, and so on would receive additional bonus income.

This can be controversial, so such a feature should be subject to broad social and political discussion, democratic decision-making, and ongoing reassessment.

Valuing meaningful work

Another option is the creation of essentially artificial or subsidized jobs based on meaningful work for others.

These positions could also have significantly shorter working hours, for example 3–4 days a week, 4–6 hours a day. They would be important roles in public administration, politics, local and regional government, the nonprofit sector, foundations, and similar areas.

Mass entrepreneurship

Quite possibly, many people could also become entrepreneurs thanks to AI. They would simply create an AI agent that acts as the CEO of other AI agents, which together would run their company or companies.

Micro-businesses with a story

People could also start opening small businesses that are passion projects and would be non-competitive in today’s market environment. But their goal would no longer be to support the owner and employees or to generate profit.

The goal would be local businesses built on relationships with customers — small bookstores, restaurants, cafés, and so on. The primary workers could easily be robots, while the owner would show up mainly to build relationships with customers.

Mass investing

Likewise, many people could obtain income from investing carried out by investment funds managed by top-tier AI agents. We would all receive dividends, and immediately.

At the same time, such investment funds would be established for every person at birth. The state would contribute regularly. Parents too. People would not have to wait for retirement; they would have investment income already in adulthood.

The welfare state

In addition to all this, we could still have a traditional welfare state with a range of social benefits and public pensions.

Of course, all of this assumes that we manage to tax the wealth generated by AI far more effectively and fairly.

An aristocratic life for everyone

The near future with AI will very likely be either one where the masses survive in hopeless poverty, or one of nearly unlimited and continuously growing prosperity — prosperity people may help create themselves, but will not be required to.

In short, we can create a world in which an aristocratic life is finally possible — this time for everyone. The meaning of life in such a world is another topic, though.

Grindr became unusable. I quit.

It’s like a casino without a jackpot. Only annoying ads. Sometimes hookups. But probably no chance to find a real partner there.

In my country we have a thing called “dry Feb.” It’s usually connected to taking a pause from alcohol. I usually do it to have a month-long break from watching p*rn. Which I’m doing now too.

But probably an even bigger time-waster, soul-breaker, and dopamine-destroyer for me has been Grindr recently.

I’m 35 now. I started late. I was with a boy for the first time when I was 28. Since then I’ve been using Grindr. I realized on a daily basis. I probably became addicted to it. Curious about the detox and side effects.

I always hoped I would find “the one” there. Maybe I would meet him because we would share similar preferences in bed. But maybe it’s an illusion. I know people who met there and became life partners. But maybe even they had a different “go on a date first” approach.

I became too lazy to even do that. Even via the other apps. Not a conspiracy theorist here, but is it really in their interest to make us quit by finding a stable relationship?

And what became so annoying with Grindr recently is that you can’t even find a relevant hookup there. They’ve limited who you can see so much that if you’re not physically in the city center, it’s basically impossible to find someone relevant.

In the free version you can’t even use filters. I used to do that trick of setting the age to a 1-year category (like 18–19, haha), but then they limited it to 5 years (18–23, 24–29, 30–35 or so). Basically impossible to use other filters.

And the ads. These pop out at you right away. You click on a message and bam—you can’t see it and reply. You either need to wait and try to—very often unsuccessfully—switch it off. Or them off. Or restart the app, which I almost always did.

Or you can pay. But the prices are absolutely insane. I would be willing to pay 2–4 euros a month. Maybe. But not over 20. And you don’t even get the full version for it.

So bye bye Grindr. See you in March. Or never.

Get better. Or let someone create a real competitor. Available even in Central Europe.

What is your experience? When did you lose patience with Grindr? Are there better apps? Or should we come back to meeting life partners in the real world again? How did you meet your life partner?

Why I Write

It would be nice to be able to make a living from writing and finally feel free. But as Derek Sivers reminded me in his text: it can be something like an art—like a self-perceived meaning or purpose, maybe even useless to others.

But I read and think a lot, so I want to give something back. To inspire others on how to live better lives. To try to improve the world and make it a better place.

As John Strelecky reminded me: it is not who we are that we dare to write and share with the world, but who we are if we dare not to do it.

I was also inspired by the author of Tiny Experiments and her blog Ness Labs. So this is one tiny experiment.

Why this? Why now?

The end is near—or it might be. You never know. Memento mori.

Our lives and the world might be on the wrong path. As intellectuals who often think about these things, we have a kind of moral obligation to try to mitigate risks and inspire each other to aim for a better, realistically optimistic future—like Dario Amodei outlined in his essay, and like the futures imagined in Star Trek and The Orville.

What kind of community am I looking to build here?

Well, probably one of like-minded people. People who care about personal growth without the nonsense, built on real-life experience and backed by science. People who are curious about life, the future, AI, and our society. And people who love sci-fi and want to live in better versions of it.

I will also cover topics connected to my sexual and romantic orientation. I’ll touch on nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. Sometimes politics, but hopefully not too much.

How often will I write?

Well, it depends. No stress here. I would be happy to publish at least one article per week—or at least once a month. Not on any regular schedule, mostly when I have something to say and feel like sharing it with you.

Why launch on 2nd February, Groundhog Day? Well, I love that movie. And yeah, I was busy figuring out some preparations in January.

I decided to use this pen name. It has deeper meanings, which I may explain later. I want to be as free and authentic as possible, avoiding self-censorship. It would be harder if I used my real name.

I am a real person, though. And yes, I will use AI—not to generate texts instead of me (what would be the point?), but to help me create more readable texts and improve my English along the way.

I hope you will enjoy this journey.