I want to write. Write well and enjoy doing it. But writing well and enjoyment don’t exactly go hand in hand. Not for me, at least. The more I learn about writing, the more difficult it becomes. Each book on the craft that I read feels like opening a can of worms....
A small IT company has recently asked me to help them with copywriting on their website. And, as we were wrapping up the call, their head of sales said, “If there’s one impression you made during this call, Sebastian, it’s that you offer premium services. I don’t know...
Each day, for the last month, I only worked until I got restless or distracted. So a couple of hours at most. And that’s it. No procrastination, no vegging out waiting for inspiration to return, nothing. Only a couple of hours of highly focused work each day,...
For the longest time, I was convinced that anyone writing for pleasure is doing it wrong. Or, at least, has never learned what it means to write well. Good writing can be devilishly tricky to get right because to write well, you need to translate your stream of...
Berlin has one of those street newspapers. Motz. It’s a community project that lets the poor and the homeless make some money. The sellers get on the U-Bahn (the underground) and offer copies, €2 apiece. And almost nobody buys one. It struck me recently, how strange...
The existence of free will is a hotly debated topic among scientists and philosophers. So far, it has neither been proved nor disproved. The discussion often boils down to the following question: Are there any truly random events in nature? Their existence would...
One upside, amongst many downsides, of the pandemic is that it taught me how to sell my services better. I’m serious. Back in January, I was in the comfortable position of having work lined up until August. Then COVID-19 happened, some of my clients got depressed,...
