We both know you love pain — My dear masochist, I wish I could apologize to you for all your suffering and mean it, but I can’t. Truth is, I am a sadist. I probably shouldn’t be proud of it, but I can’t help it. Pain feeds me. The vision of half-naked women and men looking at…

Thousands are “Quiet enrolling" — Everybody keeps talking about quiet quitting, but I don’t hear so much about quiet enrolling. And it happens all the time. Quiet enrolling happens slowly but surely It’s when we hear some noise about something that might or might not interest us, and we go on with our lives, but a seed was planted in our…

Don’t let it run over you — You probably are fed up by now about ChatGPT articles. I know I am. Is it ethical? Is it quality? Is it threatening? Will it leave writers unemployed? I think we should reconsider our perspective. It’s not the first time it’s happened All scientific advances through history made someone tremble. While housewives were over the moon with…

Karma is too busy for navel-gazers — I had my fair share of karma talk in the past decade. As a backpacker and an anthropologist working on social projects in South America and living with hippies, we talked more about karma than our daily groceries. I must have a huge karma because somebody drank my milk. I…

Sometimes we overcomplicate the most basic things — People are lonely and thirsty for hope. You probably read a thousand times how important it is to use storytelling to connect with our readers. It all comes down to one thing: we are fed up with being invisible. We wake up in the morning and go to work, whether…

The 5-step process that will set you free — If there’s a skill everybody improved like crazy thanks to the Internet, it’s cooking. Whereas before we had some friends who never invited us over because their cooking skills were embarrassing, or college students spent years eating sausages and spaghetti with cheap tomato sauce, we now have youngsters experimenting with…

Let’s steal the spotlight from them for good — Many complain about cultural appropriation. A globalized world is more prone to dilute cultures, but I don’t agree with theft or distortion. Sometimes we learn new traditions on our travels, or from foreign influence, and we embrace them, like Halloween or Easter eggs. We always influenced each other. No society…

Make your bulletproof content creation plan and chill. — I know you’ve probably heard of how consistency pays off until exhaustion. I understand. I’ve been there. But do you remember when your parents told you that fire burns, and you didn’t truly believe it until you hurt yourself? This is the same. I’m not a super consistent writer, but…

Every year it’s the same tiring debate — I’m standing in the crowd, and the air smells of incense and melted wax. There are so many candles lit up that the air is hot, even on a typical chilly night in April. It’s dark. All the street lights are off. The businesses, vibrant only ten minutes ago, have…