Through the 50+ hours of practice sessions I did to obtain my foundational coaching certificate, I discovered six common thinking patterns that withhold people from reaching their goals and feeling satisfied in life. This was a very deep insight into the mental fallacies that many of us get trapped by. I detail them below along with the underlying beliefs that maintain the respective pattern, and how these beliefs manifest in what my past clients do (i.e., the “symptoms”): Pa

My coaching practice is part of the bigger idea to make self-actualisation, as Maslow described it, a lifestyle. After spending years on researching people’s online security and trying to find better ways to protect them from cyberattacks, I realised that the mainstream approach to cybersecurity awareness and training programs is not that effective. Simultaneously, as I got interested in life coaching, it suddenly clicked for me that we need to improve people’s psychological

What is understood by the term “coaching” has evolved over the course of humanity. Traces of its altruistic objective can be found in ancient human cultures, where those more skilled and knowledgeable coached those less experienced to reach a deeper level of understanding. For example, in sports and mechanical engineering, but also philosophy and religion. The personal or life coaching profession as we now it today, however, only started to materialise from the ‘80s thanks to

This year, I made time to read more. Even though my commute on the tube is only about 15 minutes, that half an hour a day proved to be just enough for me to start and finish work feeling intrigued. I read multiple books and a bunch of academic papers this way. Some of these were absolutely captivating and broadened my worldview. From rekindling my longstanding interest in understanding consciousness, to opening my eyes to the silent neoliberal powers that are shaping our worl

In 2018, DARPA (the US' military "advanced research" department) published a tender for non-invasive brain stimulation devices to augment military personnel. The bid was won the year after by a research team at Carnegie Mellon University that received $19.48 million to develop a wearable brain stimulation device. The news is in line with DARPA's more longstanding interest in developing "neurotechnology", which can be broadly defined as cyberphysical systems to interact with