PinnedPatrick Westöö·Oct 6, 2021Two 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…
Patrick Westöö·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…
Patrick Westöö·Jun 3, 2022“The quality of my life is the quality of my relationships”: Taking a relationship first approach…My 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…A response icon1A response icon1
Patrick Westöö·Jun 1, 2022Celebrate 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…
Patrick Westöö·May 18, 2022Emotions 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…
Patrick Westöö·May 18, 2022Why 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…
Patrick Westöö·May 17, 2022Relationship, 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…
Patrick Westöö·May 9, 2022Patrick’s top books of 2020Shipping 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…
Patrick Westöö·Apr 28, 2022In 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…
Patrick Westöö·Apr 14, 2022Sometimes 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…
