Section
Lifestyle
Living better, systematically: travel, sport & fitness, nutrition, longevity, digital balance and technology – evidence-based instead of hype.
Travel better, systematically: timing, booking, packing – plus destinations and trends, curated and reasoned.
Workation: Working Where Others Holiday – Without Kidding Yourself
Four weeks in Lisbon instead of a grey November: workation has gone from trend to real option. Setup, red tape and pitfalls for a clean, well-planned stint.
Shoulder Season: The Underrated Travel Hack
Same places, half the price, a fraction of the crowds: why shoulder season is often the best time to travel – and how to plan it smartly, month by month.
Carry-On Only: The System for Travelling Light
No baggage carousel, no fees, no lost suitcases: the system for travelling light, with a capsule wardrobe, a step-by-step packing list and size limits.
Training that lasts: from zone 2 to strength work – evidence-based instead of trend-hopping.
Zone 2: The Slow Training That Changes Everything
Zone 2 training builds your aerobic base and fat metabolism, and counts as a first-class longevity tool. How to find and train it without a lab.
Hyrox: Why a Fitness Race Is Taking Over the Gyms
Eight kilometres of running, eight strength stations, one identical format worldwide: Hyrox explained – stations, training plan, common mistakes, categories.
Strength Training After 40: Muscle Is an Organ
From midlife onward, the body loses muscle mass year after year. Why strength training after 40 is the most important health training – and how to start.
Eating without dogma: protein, processing levels, supplements – what the evidence actually supports.
The Protein Hype: How Much You Really Need
Protein bread, protein-maxxing: protein has become a marketing label. How much protein you really need – and where the hype parts ways with the evidence.
Ultra-Processed: The Real Problem on Your Plate
More than half the calories in Western diets now come from UPF: what sets them apart from ordinary processing and how you can actually cut back.
Creatine: From Bodybuilding Powder to Longevity Supplement
Few supplements are better researched than creatine – and few have transformed their image so much: from bodybuilding powder to a genuine longevity tool.
Healthier for longer, not just longer: the big levers for healthspan, soberly ranked.
Wearables: What Rings and Watches Know About You – And What They Don't
Sleep stages, HRV, stress score: which wearable metrics you can trust, where interpretation ends, and where your most sensitive data actually goes.
Longevity: What Actually Works, According to the Evidence
Between ice baths and supplement stacks, one thing gets lost: research has long known the big longevity levers – uncomfortably mundane. An honest sort.
VO2 Max: The Most Important Number You Don't Know
VO2 max predicts life expectancy better than cholesterol or blood pressure. How to estimate it without a lab, what it means, and the training that raises it.
Smart home and the technology that makes everyday life easier – without losing control.
Smart Home Without the Frustration: A Start That Doesn't End in Chaos
Matter, Thread and local hubs solve the smart home's old compatibility problem. A three-principle starting plan for a system that actually belongs to you.
Smart Home Automations You Never Notice – Until They're Gone
Seven smart home automations with real everyday value, a cost example and three principles for a system that actually stays reliable day to day.
Robot Vacuums, Mops and Mowers: What's Actually Worth It
Robot vacuums, mops and lawnmowers in a sober comparison: maturity by category, buying criteria, common mistakes, and where the technology hits its limits.
Attention, habits and a deliberate relationship with digital life.
Digital Detox Has Failed – The Digital Diet Works
Radical abstinence fails in everyday life: reclaim control over your attention with a system instead of willpower – tools, mistakes, a sample day.
Deep Work: How to Relearn Focus Instead of Hoping for It
Focus is trainable, not innate: the system of time blocks, a decluttered environment, rituals, and the most common mistakes on the way to real deep work.
Kids and Smartphones: Rules That Hold, Not Bans That Fail
At what age a smartphone makes sense, which staged model works, and which family rules actually hold – practical guidance instead of scare tactics.
Passwords, passkeys, backups and VPNs: the security basics everyone can handle themselves.
Passkeys: The Slow, Secure End of the Password
Passkeys are safer and more convenient than any password – yet hardly anyone uses them consistently. How the technology works and how to make the switch.
VPN: What It Actually Does – and What It Doesn't
VPN adverts promise anonymity and protection from hackers – mostly marketing. What a VPN actually delivers, and what matters when choosing one.
Backups: The 3-2-1 Rule for Your Digital Life
The 3-2-1 rule makes data loss practically impossible. How to set up a real backup strategy for photos, documents and memories in one single afternoon.
Blockchain, stablecoins, the digital euro: how money and payments are being rebuilt digitally.
Stablecoins: The First Blockchain Product for the Mass Market
Stablecoins have quietly become a real payments product – regulated in the EU and the US. How they work, and why retailers should pay attention.
Blockchain Without Buzzwords: How the Technology Actually Works
Blockchain explained simply: a ledger owned by no one. How the technology works, what it can do – and where it's the wrong tool for the job.
The Digital Euro: What's Actually Coming – and When
Digital euro: pilot phase in 2027, possible rollout in 2029 – the timeline, features, and legitimate criticism between a cash top-up and a surveillance debate.
From nuclear fusion to quantum computing: the technologies of tomorrow – soberly assessed, not hyped.
Sodium-Ion Batteries: The Storage Revolution Made from Table Salt
Batteries without lithium or cobalt, built from one of the most abundant elements on Earth: how sodium-ion batteries work and where their limits really lie.
Nuclear Fusion: How Close Is the Lab-Grown Star, Really?
Since ignition, fusion has counted as solvable. What's been achieved physically, what's still missing, and what timeline is realistic for a fusion power plant.
Perovskite Solar Cells: Solar's Next Leap
Perovskite solar cells push module efficiency beyond silicon's limit: how tandem cells work, who's building them, and the one hurdle still unsolved.
Hardware and home networking in everyday life: buy smarter, repair, self-host – tech worth your money.
Self-Hosting Instead of Subscribing: The Return of the Home Server
Photos, films, smart home, cloud storage: more people bring their services home. Getting started with self-hosting – hardware, costs and the secure way in.
Right to Repair: Fixing Things Is Normal Again
USB-C mandates, swappable batteries, spare-parts rights: the EU is making repairability compulsory. Here's how to buy repairable tech today.
Galaxy Z Fold 8: Samsung Rebuilds the Foldable – and Removes Features
Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8 gets shorter, wider and pricier: from 1,999 euros, no telephoto, no Flex mode. What the new format delivers – and who it pays off for.