Personal growth
The same person online and offline
A short note on authenticity: being the same person in real life as on social media.
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.
Life between cultures
Shared Albanian interests should come before party loyalties
A comment framed the discussion about protests through party loyalties in Kosovo. My reply was to listen to people’s demands and judge the issue itself.
Personal growth
Before the next restart, understand what went wrong
Some of my ideas never became companies. Others failed after launch. My reply to a frustrated builder was about learning between attempts, including my restarts with…
Personal growth
The choices I meant when I said: stop waiting for luck
A viewer asked how to break a run of bad luck. My reply came back to ordinary decisions: work, movement, reading and the way we approach…
Life between cultures
What we want to discuss in KONCENTROHU’s first episode
Our European journey, Albanian identity and the meaning of KONCENTROHU: the first-episode plan I shared, with a target window rather than a confirmed release date.
Personal growth
My factory investment failed. This is what I learned.
A viewer asked whether I had feared losing borrowed money. My answer included the part that matters: the factory investment did fail, and I still had…
Personal growth
Before sending more emails, show why someone should trust your app
A solo builder asked me for feedback after reporting 150 outreach emails without a reply. My first question was about the evidence on his website.
Life between cultures
At 21, should I return to Kosovo and start a business?
A 21-year-old asked about returning to Kosovo with €15,000 and a business idea. My reply, and the fuller story behind my own start with CHF 3,000.
Personal growth
What is money worth if you have no time to live?
A conversation between Tim Ferriss and Rolf Potts helped me question what wealth means. For me, money has to leave room for a life I actually…
Personal growth
What breaking my arm taught me about patience
I started a month-long trip through Europe with my arm in a cast. The hardest lesson was accepting that recovery would not follow my timetable.
Life between cultures
A new Albanian awakening starts with knowledge and unity
My call for a new Albanian awakening: put our shared language, culture and future above the divisions of party and religious affiliation.
Life between cultures
If you do not know where you stand, start by finding out
My appeal to Albanians at home and abroad: take an interest, seek information and join the discussion instead of looking away.