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      <title>Sweeping the sidewalk</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA["A house well taken care of is a life not lived." This provocative statement, which I stumbled upon in Oliver Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks, keeps nagging at me. At face value, it makes total sense. Any time spent on keeping the house is not devoted to more valuable and fulfilling activities. Nothing to disagree with there, right? Get a cleaner. That is the universal advice when busyness takes …]]></description>
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      <title>Embracing friction</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago, I changed the way I handle email. I moved all my accounts into Notion’s new email tool. A mundane change that came with an unexpected positive outcome, based on a simple design decision: Notion doesn’t offer a unified inbox. Each address lives in its own, separate space. For years, I had grown used to having everything flow into one stream. Personal, work, projects, all …]]></description>
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      <title>New (school) year resolutions</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[It’s back-to-school time again. As I wrote exactly a year ago, this is when I pause to realign and check in on my resolutions —listed below. With three kids now in school and after a long summer break, the sense of renewal and excitement for the new season is contagious. We spent weeks together soaking up the warmth and expansiveness of a Spanish summer, but now it’s time to readjust routines and …]]></description>
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      <title>Grow with the flow</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[We humans crave permanence.&nbsp;That new shiny object, a hard-earned job that feels now like a calling, the relationships we couldn't live without, the current (or a past) version of ourselves. We quietly wish these moments could stay just as they are, untouched by time. But the truth is, nothing does. And that’s not a reason to despair. It’s actually the beginning of something beautiful. Life …]]></description>
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      <title>Blackout: the light in the dark</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[As you might already have heard, a massive power outage swept across Spain and Portugal yesterday, plunging millions into darkness. Around midday, the blackout disrupted daily life on an unprecedented scale. Although we still don't know exactly what happened, the official culprit for such a sudden loss of power is a rare atmospheric phenomenon that caused oscillations in high-voltage lines, …]]></description>
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      <title>A journey to presence</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This winter break, my family and I embarked on a road trip that was also a return to roots, to memory, and to a sense of timelessness. Driving through Southern Spain, we revisited the villages where my ancestors were born and raised, reconnecting with both family history and the relatives who still call this region home. These moments of connection and rediscovery brought a unique stillness, a …]]></description>
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      <title>Framing time</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Time has always fascinated me. It’s this strange thing —always there, always slipping away. Since I was a kid, I’ve tried to get on top of it. My sister and I had these hyper-organized mornings, planning everything down to the minute: wake up at 7:30, wash face by 7:32, breakfast exactly at 7:40. It wasn’t so much a challenge as it was a routine, a way to tame the day before it even began. That …]]></description>
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      <title>Practice as a mindset</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[You are what you repeatedly do. You will most possibly have heard this many times before. Possibly attributed to different people —most of times to Aristotle himself—. Maybe articulated with different wordings. Regardless of the messenger, the message is crystal clear: actions speak louder than words. A simple idea that carries profound implications. Especially so if you aim to be authentic and …]]></description>
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      <title>New (school) year resolutions</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[September feels like a beginning. Summer fades into fall, the world seems to exhale, and a quieter, more deliberate energy takes over as we prepare for the slower pace of winter. It is a natural moment to pause, reflect, and set the direction for the coming months. It is the perfect time for a fresh start. The excitement of a new school year. The return to structure. The thrill of new …]]></description>
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      <title>A blank page</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[It’s amazing how intimidating a blank page can be. No matter how much you have to say, the struggle to type that first word is real. That’s been me for a while now, never finding the right moment to actually sit down and do it. Yes, there’s something daring about sharing your thoughts, but there’s a lot of power in it too. So, that’s why I’m challenging myself to do it here, hoping that what I …]]></description>
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