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Beginnings Are Hard | Audio Note 1
Last year, I've started a new writing project called Field Notes: every week I would write one essay and publish it via my newsletter. As...
Dec 18, 2023
A Beautiful Addiction | Note 51
Paris is throbbing. Vibrating and trembling. Like the dog in the makeshift den that leans against the wall around the Notre Dame...
Dec 11, 2023
In the Dark | Note 50
It’s almost mid-December again. This year the Christmas mood has not yet materialised. The potted blue spruce, which graced our lounge...
Dec 4, 2023
Extreme Sportswashing and a Prince | Note 49
As the climbing community rallies to petition its governing body to examine its ethics, here’s everything that’s wrong with the Neom...
Nov 27, 2023
TRADWIVES: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Note 48
Before the time of Gen Zs and online aesthetics, there was once a different time. It was not long after women had to take on men’s work...
Nov 20, 2023
Insta-famous | Note 47
Last week, I got my act together and posted a few times on Instagram. It is a platform with which I have a very complex relationship. A...
Nov 13, 2023
The Curse of the Middle Aged Woman | Note 46
In Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow, Johnny Depp is undeniably at peak hotness – before any face swelling and before the marital abuse scandal....
Oct 31, 2023
A Solo Road Trip to the North | Note 45
According to some scientists, during the Palaeolithic period the gene variation responsible for ADHD was associated with certain...
Oct 23, 2023
Our "All Pronouns" Video is Finally Released | Note 44
“[...] When I first started climbing I assumed I was on a path and that eventually I would get ‘there’. I loved that feeling. Now I am...
Oct 16, 2023
A Catalogue of Thoughts in No Particular Order | Note 43
Day 600 of the Russian invasion on Ukraine. Exactly one year after the death of Mahsa Amini in Teheran, tortured to death by the same...
Oct 9, 2023
Are We Doomed? It's Not Just Eco-Anxiety
It’s not just eco-anxiety. It’s existential dread, and it’s by no means purely philosophical. As more and more of my friends are...
Oct 2, 2023
Tidy Writing, Tidy Mind | Note 41
“Every kind of discipline has two sides: the material and the formal side, that is, it should both teach and educate, as it is not a goal...
Sep 25, 2023
The Cult of Youth | Note 40
Like many a loving parent, my mum often liked to tell me – in fact, she still does – how beautiful she thinks I am, how radiant my skin,...
Sep 18, 2023
The Fallout | Note 39
I always underestimate the Women’s Bouldering Festival’s fallout. Our annual event is organised through a non-profit organisation which I...
Sep 4, 2023
I’m Trying to Write About Privilege | Note 38
A few weeks ago, intensely bored from driving across Europe (as I always do with A. during the summer), I amused myself in the passenger...
Aug 30, 2023
Small Book, Big Ideas | Note 37
The books I enjoy the most are usually written by people with whom I feel some sort of affinity. Even if it is only my own biassed...
Aug 21, 2023
Being a Writer | Note 36
Ideas come to me daily — or, should I say, mostly nightly. I used to let these ideas come and go, but not too long ago I made a...
