Reading The Worst Spies in the Sector by Skyler Ramirez – part 2 of his Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes series.
Reading A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy (in the translation by Roger Cockrell) – the second time after 2021.
Writing a haiku every day. I fully agree with David A. Kennedy, who said about haikus: “I like the constraints and compactness of the format.” (source: Haikus | David A. Kennedy). Few things foster creativity better than constraints.
Learning Vietnamese. It is both a lot of fun and very frustrating to learn a language which is so different from my mother tongue. All other languages I know except for my mother tongue German (i.e. English) are very similar in both grammar and vocabulary. There is basically no similarity at all between German and Vietnamese, though – nothing can be derived, and everything has to be learned from scratch.
Trying to focus on breathing well.
Trying to be a decent human being (i.e. not being a jerk most of the time).
Inspired by The /now page movement by Derek Sivers.
Last updated: 2025-10-20