Archive - Raft Journal

Peeling the onion

Jun 5, 2023 •

May 2022

How to learn like Beethoven

Or at least, very, very fast (Newsletter #2)

May 18, 2022 •

April 2022

Why is this affecting me?

What happens when you get too close to my bench (Newsletter #1)

Apr 13, 2022 •

March 2022

Replacing the self-critical voice

It just takes one simple trick.

Mar 31, 2022 •

March 2021

Slow down. You're missing the view

Two of us crouched on the small balcony, gazing up at stars forming in the night sky of Chiang Mai. Light rain started drizzling down across the horizon…

Mar 28, 2021 •

Where the journey begins

When I was 12, I read a lot of books that kids read around that time. Mostly though, I read a lot of books that kids didn't. I churned through the…

Mar 28, 2021 •

July 2020

Avoiding the war

Several years ago on a balcony in the sun, I asked a German friend about the war. We leaned back on deck chairs and coffee in hand, watching the morning…

Jul 2, 2020 •

Don't tell my mother about Hanoi

When I flew into Hanoi in Vietnam for the first time, I was on edge. I'd just come from 4 days in Singapore, a giant city-island metropolis that felt…

Jul 1, 2020 •

June 2020

Walking for Finland

I'm clumsy." "How clumsy? I mean, people are pretty clumsy in general." "Yes. But I'm the most clumsy a clumsy person could possibly be." "I don't know…

Jun 30, 2020 •

What being a DJ taught me about life

In 2009, I decided I wanted to be a DJ. Fresh off the plane from a backpacking trip to Europe (with a stop over in Ibiza), I'd replaced the electric…

Jun 29, 2020 •

May 2020

Why we do this to ourselves

"Like, are you sitting at the same table?" The barista asked, uninterested in the reply. She glanced behind her, pretending to survey the queue for the…

May 4, 2020 •

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