About

Here’s where I tell you a bit about me and what I write about in this blog. In case it’s not evident enough, my name and the title of the blog are one and the same. This is a “personal blog”: I use it to compile and share a more or less coherent collection of links, essays, news commentary and notes about topics in which I have a particularly strong personal interest.

The range of topics is wide, but they mostly revolve around my views on how to live a good life, and how to make the world a better place. And these views are of course tainted by my idiosyncratic personal philosophy, which draws on elements of Libertarianism, Daoism, and Epicureanism.

If you’re still reading after such belabored introduction, I’d like to let you know that I have not always been the kind of person interested in articulating a personal philosophy in such precise terms — or interested in the concept of having a personal philosophy at all.

That interest emerged mainly during a life-transforming sabbatical year that I took from October 2008 until the end of 2009, a period that I have come to call my “Year of Nothing”. This series of posts capture much of what happened during that year, and are a good starting point for reading this blog.

And since blogging is in no small part about expressing ourselves through other people’s content, I’ll conclude with a video from Neithercorp that I resonate very strongly with. If you like what you see, you’ll probably like to read what I write, comment on it, or drop me a line to share your thoughts.

[You can also watch the video in high resolution here, I experience that I highly recommend...]