FAMILY | LIFTING | OPERA

Welcome

Does starting a blog in 2026 feel slightly outdated?

Today most ideas are shared instantly. A quick post, a photo on Instagram, a short comment on LinkedIn. The internet has become way too fast.
But just like vinyl records have found their way back into our living rooms, I believe blogging still has its place in the digital world.
A good blog is slow.
It requires time to think, to structure ideas, to reflect and to write something that lasts longer than the few seconds it takes to scroll past a post. This is exactly what I hope to achieve here. Slowing down. Thinking things through. Putting ideas on paper and organizing thoughts that otherwise would remain scattered in my head.

About me

Strategy by profession, powerlifting by passion.
I write about discipline, resilience, and long-term thinking shaped by 20+ years in global business and years of consistent training.

Recent posts

Talking with AI

As one of my personal objectives this year, I organised and ran three prompting workshops for colleagues, led a small working group around the topic

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Black & White Series #3

Trust: I either trust someone or I don’t. Over the years, trust has become another black-and-white subject for me. I either trust someone or I

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Black & White Series #2

People Who Lead and People Who Don’t. I don’t remember where I first read or heard this idea, but over the years it has become

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Black & White Series #1

There Are People Who Deliver. And There Are People Who Don’t. Generally, I don’t like black and white thinking. Most things in business aren’t that

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I Don’t Know… Yet

One of the best examples of Growth Mindset I have ever seen happened years ago while I was waiting in line for a coffee at

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Teachability

I recommend a very simple exercise: when you find yourself in a situation that someone is explaining something to you, focus on your feelings. What

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Career Happiness

After joining Imperial, I came across someone whose approach immediately stood out. It was about the way she took complex, unfamiliar topics, quickly make sense

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Family, Opera, and Lifting.

You will find writing here about professional topics, leadership and strategy, business and technology. But also about culture, films, books, and ideas that deserve a

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The Modern Job Market

When I started my career in 2003 at Coats, I was a fresh graduate, a junior manufacturing engineer, with no expectations and no pressure, just

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