How to restart meditation after a long break
Restarting meditation after a long break can be daunting. You may keep procrastinating, and when you actually try, the mind is restless. You feel frustrated …
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8 things I learned about my morning coffee in Costa Rica
I was in Costa Rica in 2019 (and a highly recommend it). While making my morning coffee today, I realized how many things I still …
What would happen if humans disappeared?
I just watched a TED-ed video inspired by Alan Weisman’s book “The World Without Us”. With vivid animations and powerful narration, the video below answers …
Read my novel: The Island of the Righteous:
A novel about the Greek island that rescued all its Jews in WWII. A story about sacrifice and perseverance. Now available on Amazon. A dying …
Why I decided to pursue Leadership Coaching
A few years ago, I had not even heard of Leadership Coaching. I was not even a fan of coaching, wondering who pays money to …
Expat diaries: After 10 years in 3 countries, here is what I’ve learned about life abroad
I left Greece for a life abroad in 2011, with a budget of €1,000 in my parent’s credit card. I had secured a job though, …
Buddhism and Modern Psychology on what makes us happy
This is an adaptation of my final essay for the course Buddhism and Modern Psychology by Princeton University. Skipping a lot of the theory, I …
8 things to know before starting meditation
Starting meditation can be a challenge, but it gets much better. I started three years ago, when my brain was mush from spending too much …
WOOP: a simple technique to achieve your goals and build new habits
In my Coursera course “The Science of Well-being by Yale”, I came across a very interesting technique called WOOP. I started using it right away …
2021: New Year’s resolutions and the “fresh start effect”
I always considered September as the month of new beginnings. From school to university to returning from summer holidays back to work, September seemed like …
Short story: “Here’s to the next time”
The table—set every year for two families—now had seven empty seats. Her son and daughter had stayed with their families in Munich and Paris, grounded …
Did you know the word “spam” comes from this Monty Python sketch?
Spam is a word so integrated in our life that email services have a dedicated folder for it, but where does it come from? Surprisingly …
Gabriel Garcia Marquez accepts his 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature with this amazing speech
On 8th December 1982, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in an all-white suit, received the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his novels and short stories, in which …
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O’ Neil is a mathematician and data scientist. UC Berkeley-educated with a PhD from Harvard, she left an academic career to join the finance …
Why you should visit the Cambodian Killing Fields and the Tuol Sleng Prison
There is no way to see the real face of Cambodia overlooking its tortured past imposed by the 1975-1978 Khmer Rouge regime; even if there …