A few weeks ago, while procrastinating (admittedly), I stumbled upon a piece of content on Dopamine Detox. Google wanted me to see it, so I went along. The concept is simple but not necessarily easy for anyone to put in practice.

The idea goes as follows: by removing all sources of “excitement” usually linked to procrastination, e.g. social media, Netflix, gaming and so on, an individual can rehabilitate their dopamine management system.

Regulating the dopamine response is believed to help us get rid...

Spotify has been a significant player in reshaping the music industry over the last decade. As a musician who’s released a lot of music since 2006, I could use this opportunity to criticize Spotify’s policies or its royalty rates, but that’s not why I’m writing today.

Instead, I’m sharing my thoughts as a user and music lover who’s lost the precious sense of proactively listening to music and who’s being force-fed “predicted to be liked” songs that only validate a sophisticated...

I only recently discovered the work of Michael Singer and was completely blown away by the power of his message. The author of the New York Times bestseller, “The Untethered Soul” published an autobiographical essay titled “The Surrender Experiment” in 2016.

Singer writes about how he’s learned to completely let go of control in his life, of control “on” his life, and how he’s learned to live with what life offered him, every day, in full acceptance.

You would imagine that his...