Personal growth
I challenge you to be an Athlete!
Actually, I don’t! Because if you start this as a challenge, you will most probably fail. Because that’s not the way how habits are…
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.
Personal growth
Everything is connected.
The more we read, the more we can connect the things around us. Because everything is connected. What has been seen can’t be unseen.…
Personal growth
Connecting the dots
Connecting the dots is easier when I look backwards. Rejections that frustrated me at the time later changed how I understood my path as…
Business & technology
It’s about building community before building a product
Building community before product starts with identity, trust and participation. Here are the five steps that worked for us, along with an example from…
Business & technology
How I use Email
Or should I say Gmail? Anyway – email is email. I did it 10 years wrong, until I learned it: the easy way is…
Life between cultures
Before a job offer: the two-week learning follow-up I used
My 2021 account of helping young relatives get started: questions about their goals, beginner courses and a follow-up after two weeks.
Personal growth
Simplify your life
General: Less is more Declutter your closet Unfollow all the beauty brands/trendsetters/”Influencers” who tell you what to buy Remove anything in the house that…
Relationships
When you find your love
Finding your love is finding yourself. It’s finding your path and a person that really gets you, because you get that person, because it’s…
Relationships
Words I didn’t remember
While explaining to Eduard some parts that I had read in the books ‘Atomic Habits’ and ‘The Almanack of Naval Ravikant’ I couldn’t explain…
Business & technology
Three ways to find your dream job
How do you find your dream job? These are three directions I have considered: building a company, finding shared values and noticing work that…
Personal growth
Yes and No
Learning to say no is part of saying yes to your own life. I want to help others without making commitments that ignore what…
Personal growth
Startups can’t escape reality
When you work on a project or startup. What really counts are two things:1) A plan of what you want to do.2) Taking action…