Blog

Everything published here, 2017 to 2026. The recent pieces are about building and running things. 8 of the older ones are travel writing and the rest are notes from the 2020 lockdown, all kept as written rather than tidied up.

2026

  1. My Own Site Inventory Was Wrong in Four PlacesI had a careful written inventory of this site before migrating it. Fetching every URL instead found 13 posts rather than 10, and 23 images broken for years.Work and Systems3 min
  2. Action is Black and WhiteA work session only counts when something tangible changed. Why acting early beats sitting on a decision until it gets heavy.Work and Systems3 min

2025

  1. How Competence Levels the Pace of Building: From Kitchens to CodeBuilding moves in waves of slow preparation and sudden execution. Competence flattens the waves by making preparation leaner and decisions stick.Work and Systems6 min

2020

  1. Killing Your DarlingsWritten while cancelling a domain: why languages, music and half the side projects had to go so Salzburg could get everything.Reflection and Diary3 minarchive
  2. How to Keep Yourself Busy When Home AloneFilling time alone at home: finding a purpose, cold showers and exercise, meditation, owning less, and dropping the hobbies that were never going anywhere.Reflection and Diary10 minarchive
  3. Why You Should Always Be GratefulA 2020 trip through Central Asia and India that ended in a Varanasi infection, a hospital and a lockdown, and why gratitude is a decision.Reflection and Diary5 minarchive

2019

  1. What Are Free Walking Tours?How tip-based walking tours actually work, and why a donation-run hostel on the Camino and years of Couchsurfing led to starting one in Salzburg.Salzburg and Underway4 minarchive

2017

  1. How to Find a Couchsurfing HostHow to actually get accepted on Couchsurfing: host first, write a profile worth reading, choose carefully, and show you read theirs.Salzburg and Underway14 minarchive
  2. The Ultimate Guide to Salzburg CardsA one-day route built around the Salzburg Card: the Untersberg cable car first, then Hellbrunn, the old town museums and the fortress at sunset.Salzburg and Underway6 minarchive
  3. How To Travel On A Budget?How travel stayed cheap in 2017: cut spending at home, host instead of paying for beds, move in short hops, cook rather than eat out, and share the ride.Salzburg and Underway6 minarchive
  4. Why Freedom Seekers Will Love Norway?Two weeks across Norway with someone I had known sixteen hours: oatmeal, a tent, hitchhiking, and camping under the freedom-to-roam law.Salzburg and Underway6 minarchive
  5. 3 Off The Beaten Path Day Trips From SalzburgThree day trips from Salzburg by bus or train: the Gaisberg with four route options, Fuschlsee for walking and swimming, and the Bluntautal valley near Golling.Salzburg and Underway6 minarchive
  6. Why Walking The Camino De Santiago Is Addictive?Solitude with nobody to blame, walking as forced meditation, and the flat feeling of reaching Finisterre with nowhere left to go.Salzburg and Underway5 minarchive
  7. Why I Am On Couchsurfing?Reasons for hosting strangers, told through the guests: a leather suitcase, an animator who fixed a logo in two hours, friends who met me at the airport.Salzburg and Underway9 minarchive