Europe Tour
Ernst Fuchs Museum, part II: colour and light inside
Inside the Ernst Fuchs Museum, a tall stained-glass window changes the view. Pale walls, gold lines, paintings on stands. There is more to look at than…
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Writing on love, lived values and Albanian life
Love well. Live your values. Carry our roots forward. Those are the three questions behind my writing, whether a piece begins with a relationship, a company or a moment between Kosovo and Switzerland.
Choose a subject below. The short video notes preserve the original moment; longer essays explore what it means and what we can do. These are personal experiences and opinions, with sources for factual claims.
Europe Tour
Ernst Fuchs Museum, part I: a villa that made me curious
The villa made me curious before I went inside. Grand from the outside, a different atmosphere within. At the Ernst Fuchs Museum in Vienna, the building…
Business & technology
Building Be The One with AI: the challenge I set myself
For Be The One, I set myself a challenge: build without fundraising, using AI for code, research, strategy and content. I wanted to find out how…
Personal growth
The airplane state: making room for an idea
Some of my best business ideas come to me on flights. Fewer interruptions, movement, the sky outside. I call it the airplane state. I am interested…
Personal growth
Friends, a flight and the habits you make normal
A flight. Friends. A book within reach. I used that small scene to ask a bigger question: what habits do we make normal around each other?
Business & technology
Why we put dua’s advertising at airport arrivals
The feeling of waiting for someone you love was the reason we placed dua’s advertising at airport arrivals. The idea behind the placement.
Personal growth
A passport does not build your courage
A stronger passport can open a border. It cannot make the decision to begin for you. I have lived between countries, and I care about that…
Personal growth
Self-respect starts with the promises you keep
You made yourself a promise. Did you keep it? For me, self-respect starts there—in the small agreements nobody else is checking.
Life between cultures
Returning to Kosovo: settling in took me more than two years
It took me more than two years to get used to life in Kosovo. My personal experience, and three questions to consider before returning.
Personal growth
Limiting beliefs: put “I can’t” to the test
“I can’t.” “It won’t work here.” “You need connections.” I hear those sentences around Kosovo. Before you let one decide your future, ask: have I actually…
Relationships
Intimacy and boundaries: choose who you let close
Who you let close matters. For me, intimacy carries something beyond the physical. It deserves a choice I can stand behind afterwards.
Life between cultures
Make Albanian businesses easier to discover
Which Albanian business should more people know about? I asked people to share theirs because being good at your work and being easy to find are…