Writing about disability is not easy for me, because it easily gets very personal. I recently watched America Ferreras TedTalk on identity and realized that this is also something I have experienced as a disabled person. Like her, I want to be recognized as a professional, not a member of a minority. I remember vividly… Read More
Fairs and wheels
I had a great weekend in Turku at the Build and Decorate fair, which yielded over 13 000 visitors this year. It is the biggest fair in the region for builders and renovators. We had a stall together with other manufacturers and local electric contractors. Our offer included some wiring devices like Renova and Elko… Read More
Emotional Intelligence
Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending an event by Adeptus, called Tunneäly Summit 2019. Tunneäly is the Finnish word for EQ or Emotional Intelligence. The event had some interesting speakers like inventor and key note speaker Perttu Pölönen, Dr Pauliina Airaksinen-Aminoff and many others. The main theme of the day was, how to utilize… Read More
About youth and hashtags
Editorial in OIFE Magazine 01 / 2019 “I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are.” – John Denver. It took me a good while to find the perfect quote to start this editorial, because for some reason most quotes about youth I found were either bitter or condescending. Instead, I wanted… Read More
Reflections and Failure
The easiest thing to do after failure is to look for the culprit. Too often you find it staring back in the mirror. I believe failure is important for self-growth and life without failure is boring. One of my favorite things to do is reflecting. How did I get here? What did I learn there?… Read More
What I removed from my blog yesterday
My biggest passion in life is travelling the world and I had so many posts here from my travels, I think about 30 or so. A lot of fun memories, but the content was quite immature and private, so I deleted them. There was also a bit of other personal history, like posts about my… Read More
Eight years of clean up
Just a couple of weeks ago I got an interesting idea: I decided to create a business name and an actual blog with interesting content. Of course, the easiest way to approach this was to use my existing blog in WordPress. I bought a domain and upgraded my account to Premium. I also cleaned up… Read More
Signed up to Elements of AI
Signed up to Elements of AI, which is a MOOC by University of Helsinki and Reaktor. The course is offered in English and Finnish, and it is free. http://ow.ly/1MoK30n77cP
Polar A360 – Data motivoi
Ensikokemukset Polar A360:n käytöstä. Read More
“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
. Oscar Wilde in Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young (1894).