Inspired by Rolf Dobelli’s book, I stopped using Facebook six months ago. Mainly because I was addicted, and also because the constant social comparisons and the instant gratification treadmill became toxic for me. (I’m still using Messenger/WhatsApp for one-one-one contact.) The downside of leaving Facebook was that I lost a distribution channel for my content,…
Category: Health
Checklist: 6 Common Push-Up Mistakes
Recently I stumbled upon this video that made me rethink and improve my push-up game. Here’s the checklist: Mistake #1: Not applying Full Range of MotionSolution: Get all the way down (chest touches the floor), and all the way up. Don’t just do half push-ups like most people. Do full ones! Mistake #2: Flaring your…
Your chair is your enemy
Prolonged sitting increases the risk of multiple health conditions. Sitting is so normal for us that we seldom question it. I know I don’t. I believe it’s useful to increase awareness and help battle our cultural sitting obsession. Here are some ideas: Read while standingI’ve recently started to read in a standing position. And I…
Japanese Water Therapy
I started applying the Japanese Water Therapy. It suggests to drink about 1 liter of water right after waking up. It makes intuitive sense to me. The human body needs about 2-4 liters of water per day. As a heuristic, you can say it needs 100 ml per hour. So if you sleep for 8…
My experiences with fasting
Last year, I started listening to more health related podcasts, and fasting kept coming up. Since then, I experimented and fell in love with it. I do a daily 13-hour circadian rhythm fast (I use Zero to help me) I did a 5-day ProLon Fasting Mimicking Diet once and plan to do it more often…
Passions Are Toxic
A passion is a “strong and barely controllable emotion”. The Late Latin word passio litteraly means “suffering” (from Latin pati “to suffer”). Who enjoys suffering? I don’t. The use of the word has been declining until 1980, with good reason. Then the trend reversed. It became a mantra of the tech/startup world. You’ve got to…
Just Walk
Inspired by this podcast episode (which I highly recommend) I ditched my scooter and started walking to work: I listen to audiobooks and podcasts, and treat this as my early morning lesson, combined with a health benefit I take different routes to work, usually walking for 45–90 minutes I discovered wonderful areas of my neighborhood…
Science of Habit Change and Meditation
Here is the presentation I held at LIFT Conference Basel about the Science of Habit Change and the Science of Meditation, and why I started ZenFriend.
Proof that Meditation works
Here is a recent Amazon review that I have written about Hirnforschung und Meditation: Ein Dialog (edition unseld) (in German, here is the English translation with Google Translate) Beweis dass Meditation zu neuronalen Veränderungen führt Dieses Buch war ein Geschenk meines seit Jahren meditierenden Karate-Lehrers und ist eines der Bücher, welches mein Leben von Grund…
Broken Nose After Brace Position
You always hear about those plane-crashes — but they always seem to be far away (on the TV; in the newspaper, but still far far away). Fellow blogging-entrepreneur Peter Hogenkamp survived the Crossair Crash in 2001 where 24 people died. Leu (seen via twenty9) posted an interesting video-interview with Peter: Very tragic, but very interesting. Especially his…