Recently, I left a perfectly good job and became a freelancer. In fact, it is a move I should have done a long time ago. But that’s the thing about jobs: they have a way of trapping you in and making it hard to leave. Which is why Nassim Nicholas Taleb called carbs, heroin and … Continued

I started young with learning languages. Some of my first memories are learning a German hymn from a gregarious Bavarian during my homeschooling days. From then on, we were taught German by a colourful variety of Germans, Americans and Irish, all driven by my parent’s conviction that learning foreign languages was a good idea. But … Continued