PinnedMember-onlyTwo crackers and Jam: My ten days off struggle and discovery on a Sri Lankan monostary.It was almost 5 o’clock in the afternoon. I had been looking forward to this moment the whole day. There were few “joys” in this monastery but this was one of them. It was the last meal of the day. Meal is to say a lot since it was nearly…Vipassana20 min readVipassana20 min read
Dec 16, 2022Modernist architecture has to stop being a religion and start being a scienceI recently got the question from a politician, what does the architecture rebellion really stand for? To properly answer this question one has to understand what is the root problem with modernist architecture. I believe the answer is simple; we want architecture to stop being a religion and to start…6 min read6 min read
Jun 3, 2022Member-only“The quality of my life is the quality of my relationships”: Taking a relationship first approach to lifeMy ex, a woman wise beyond her years told me once, “The quality of my life is the quality of my relationships”. I have never before herd a view of life so clearly distilled into one sentence. I had been leaning towards something like this during the last 10 years…4 min read4 min read
Jun 1, 2022Member-onlyCelebrate your own successes not the “official ones”When I graduated high school, a unique and highly celebrated time in Sweden, I wasn’t proud. The celebration goes back to the days when many did not pass and hence could not go on to university. So passing was a huge thing. My dad graduated the year after they changed…4 min read4 min read
May 18, 2022Member-onlyEmotions are the spice that is life…. ride themWhat is life but the emotions that we have when we live it. Our ups and downs, fears and hopes. Yet I come from a culture where we rarely speak about emotions at all. The culture very much appreciated and expects modesty with your emotions. …Relationships2 min readRelationships2 min read
May 18, 2022Member-onlyWhy do we write?I just finished writing a very emotional piece of text. Emotions literally dripping out on the pages. But what a feeling once it was done. It was like all of the feelings I had inside left and dropped to the page. A stone lifted on my shoulders. So it made…2 min read2 min read
May 17, 2022Member-onlyRelationship, connection + bounce, [contract optional]I have been through my rounds of relationships/hookups/flings during my 34 years on this earth and I have thought a lot about what it means and how it changes you. Because I think often people think of relationships in purely contractual terms. …Relationships5 min readRelationships5 min read
May 9, 2022Member-onlyPatrick’s top books of 2020Patrick’s top books of 2020 Shipping work is just as important as making work, so this list I made but did not ship in 2020. For me these were the top 10 books that I read and, that came out in 2020, which I would highly recommend to any of…Reading4 min readReading4 min read
Apr 28, 2022Member-onlyIn search of my tribeIm back in London after two years and a pandemic. I feel like a tourist, taken by the size and energy of the city and the pulse. The random collection of people streaming past me on the streets and in the tube. I know now what tourists come for, and…4 min read4 min read
Apr 14, 2022Member-onlySometimes the most healthy thing to do is to not be normalI recently had a chat with a close friend of mine. She had been struggling to sleep and regularly only slept for 5–6 hours per night. She had tried it all, including sleep rituals to get in the right mood. I asked a simple question, did she drink coffe. Yes…5 min read5 min read
