- Jan 21
- Jan 8
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...
