Personal growth
Choose a book for the question you are living with
If fear keeps taking up space in your day, what would reading about courage bring into the conversation? That is how I like to choose a…
VALON ASANI / ENGLISH
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.
Business & technology
The people behind the logo: a Sunny Hill moment
Fjolla, in the front row at Sunny Hill, representing dua. Our Lead Customer Support at the time. A moment I wanted to celebrate.
Business & technology
Taking a digital product into a real festival
Sunny Hill in Prishtina gave us a concrete setting for Spotted: people at the same festival who might want to find someone they had crossed paths…
Business & technology
Read with a problem in mind
What are you trying to understand right now? Start there when choosing a book. That was my advice in November 2023, and it is a question…
Business & technology
One billboard, a much wider conversation
One billboard. One city. Then conversations well beyond that street. I was proud of what our dua team and Karrota had dared to put out into…
Business & technology
A big company ambition still needs a next step
In November 2023, I said I wanted dua to become a unicorn within five years and reach the world’s top five dating apps. That was the…
Business & technology
Behind a safety promise is the work of responding
On 8 July 2023, I spoke about the people behind dua’s safety work: checking suspicious profiles and responding to reports, Monday to Sunday. A promise on…
Life between cultures
Finding a familiar community while living abroad
What would you like someone to understand without a long explanation? Your language? Your family? What it means to belong to more than one country? That…
Relationships
Dating preferences and respect: what I meant at dua.com
Why personal choice and respect belong together in dating, explained through my original dua.com post and concrete examples of profile language.
Personal growth
Take the next challenge seriously without making it your whole identity
Sometimes I picture life as a game of hide-and-seek. The image helps me approach a challenge with curiosity. I can take the next move seriously without…
Business & technology
A company across borders needs clear working agreements
In November 2023, I described dua as a team of 70: our management board in Switzerland, most colleagues in Kosovo, and a presence in other countries.…
Business & technology
Why we kept the name dua.com as the audience changed
We were widening dua’s audience. Did that mean changing its name too? In November 2023, my answer was no. Short, simple, beautiful: I still saw a…