Troels Lauritz Reese Christensen

April 11, 2025

An Anchor List

I had a thought today while listening to the Modern Wisdom podcast. Chris' guest was talking about how in religions they reinforce the narratives by repeating phrases. In Islam, you pray 5 times a day. In judaism you read from the Torah each week. This is because we are all humans and we forget things all the time. Being reminded of th...

April 11, 2025

Font Sizing

Yesterday I decided it was time to start work on the remake of my personal website. I want a place where I can publish more of my writing. I have a longing to try out digital gardening. I have the horsepower needed to keep working on something like a zettlekasten or a digital garden. I want to make my own personal version of it. This d...

March 18, 2025

Remote Work, the gift that keeps giving

Click! Another memory snapshot. Surprise surprise, it was of my daughter. Most fathers, I'm sure can relate to saving memories of their children. That's not what I want to dabble about today. However, this moment was only made possible with working remotely, which happens to be todays subject matter. Most knowledge workers have tried w...

March 10, 2025

Humans haven't changed much in the last 2000 years. The same cannot be said for our societies, and technologies. Yet, with all the wonders of the modern world, we still suffer the same vices as our forefathers. In the his essay: "On the Shortness of Life", Seneca seems to address issues, that seem very current. If it weren't for his af...

March 8, 2025

"All you need is two rakes and a table." This was what I told my girlfriend late afternoon today, as we were wrapping up our day in the garden. We'd been pulling out weeds, slashing through bushes and cutting various plants and things I didn't know we had. For some reason it was amazing weather today on the island. A day that just draw...

March 7, 2025

I am ready for the weekend. This week has been a turbulent one. Not only on the world stage, where Trump, and the EU are stealing all the headlines. But also one personally. I have a lot to think and plan about my roof. We also had some tight deadlines as work. I don't subscribe to that many news outlets. In fact I see very little news...

March 4, 2025

Today I just feel like typing on my Moonlander. Wait a tic.. May as well warm up with monkeytype.com. Ok, im back! I didn't go that well. I got 64 WPM, but it was lagging. As a matter of fact, so is the interface on Hey at the moment. It must be my machine. I have lot on my plate today with work. I've got some things I need to clear up...

February 26, 2025

Listening to morning jazz. Trying to think of what to write. Why even do this if I have nothing to say? Well, I do. I just am not always in a state of mind to do so. This is session however, is more about creating a habit. A habit to keep writing. A habit that sets up my next task: Work. I am easily seduced by Media. Especially YouTube...

February 25, 2025

Time and Pressure

A thing I needed to hear today was that "incremental work adds up." Or that "consistency is key." It is so unintuitive for us humans. We just want instant gratification. I have had a few bad habits over the years. I would even call some of them addictions. I can be obsessed about things. I have the tools to be a force of nature. In fac...

February 12, 2025

Personal Ai Avatar

An idea I that's been floating around in my mind for the last week, is that of a Personal Ai Avatar. Imagine going to somone's webpage and being met with a multi-modal Avatar of that person. An Avatar that you can interact with on that person's behalf. You mean like Chat GPT? Yes, But.. Customized to mimic and interact like a specific ...

February 2, 2025

Five minute decisions

Make your decisions in a vaccum. How often do we make decisions ourselves? I don't mean to join the discussion on free will. So, knowing it lurks around a few corners from here, I shall try to stay weary of the edge and focused on what would at least 'appear' to be us making choices. Most people, I am sure, recognize this pattern; You ...

February 2, 2025

Girls, Interrupted

My girls were going around the merry go round. The eldest of the two, Willa, start pushing the younger one off of it. I had to stop myself from saying anything. My initial reaction was intervening. It was a small push and it didn't seem like a big deal. So I "let it slide". They proceeded to play and push each other for another 15 seco...

February 1, 2025

Obsessed with Average

I am obsessed with the Average. It is a thought that I have played around with before. Today it crystallized into something more in my head as I was pushing my youngest daughter in the pram along our dirt road. I am average. In fact, we are all part of the average. It is the sum of us. When you think of it, it is something that binds e...

February 1, 2025

I keep getting itches to write and share about my life and the choices I have made -and still make, every day. I see close friends struggling, I hear about movements that I think are 'late' to the party. Don't worry, I do realize that this all sounds like I am sitting on my own high horse. I have my faults, trust me. I also have insigh...

January 28, 2025

It's been a little while since I wrote. It's kind of a strange feeling I have towards writing at the moment. On the one hand, I feel like I have tons to say, but on the other hand, I lack the motivation to say it. I am unsure why this is. I feel great at the moment. I am also very focused at work. I do still have some stress about a fe...

January 17, 2025

Two things on my mind today. The first one is the bad one. Unpaid bills in January is apparently something I am still dealing with as a 40 year old. I told myself last year, that when I turned the corner to the next decade, then that would be it. I do very much intend on redeeming myself this year. Christina is also on board with this....

January 15, 2025

It's a normal Wednesday, I'm feeling great. Coffee needs to cool down for a few minutes still. My thoughts are many places this morning. At least have been since the car ride to drop off my two girls. When I say my thoughts are 'many places', I mean this in a very positive way. I have ideas and stories that I wish to remember. I can of...

January 10, 2025

I just listened to a fantastic episode from Modern Wisdom with Konstantin Kissin as the guest in the studio with Chris Williamson. It was so dense and filled with insight that I am left a little out of breath. My mind is trying to grasp onto strings of ideas and thoughts. Stuff I want to remember, new things I wish to try, and write ab...

January 10, 2025

I want to make sure that I keep writing. Why? My understanding is that writing unlocks things in your brain that are otherwise quite hard to reach. Writing helps us gather our thoughts and then scrutinize every word of that manifistation. This seems like quite a powerful and necessary tool for any serious thinker. Am I a serious thinke...

January 8, 2025

Today I will be quick. As per usual I guess. Anyways, I am sitting in a cafe and working on multiple things. I feel like I have lots to do this new year. But at the same time it feels like I have a firm grasp on everything. I am not sure if I am kidding myself, or if I have turned over a new leaf. Even though this feels good, I have to...

January 7, 2025

I fixed my Moonlander! Huzaa! I didn't expect to get my Moonlander working so easily. Good support and a quality product is just something you cannot beat. I also had to pick it more appart than necessary. This was my own fault though. I see it as a bonus that I got to understand how my keyboard works under the hood. Ultimately dispell...

January 6, 2025

Today I am writing for the first time in the new year. Well, that isn't entirely true. I am making my first post to my hey world journal. I have already started my 'Homework for life' this year. My Moonlander keyboard is not working. Already I am feeling the effects. Writing on my laptop keyboard is a painful experience. Quite literall...

December 20, 2024

Today is the last day of work before the Christmas holidays. I have a thousand things to do, and nothing to do at the same time. I know that previous sentence is quite literally contradictory. It is more that feeling, you know? This year, planning Christmas was better than last year, but still not good enough. Both finances and stress ...

December 16, 2024

I really hate planning. Over the last couple of years, I have gotten better at it. I don't know why it is so hard for me to do really. Maybe I really just only feed on the dopamine hits, which makes planning hard to get started with. I usually never plan without being able to check at least one of the check boxes that I make during pla...

December 13, 2024

I am having a hard time knowing where to begin today. I don't feel all that great. I have a headache. I cannot see how I got it. I don't get many headaches, and I am usually good at understanding where they come from. You know, little sleep. Or a sore back. The only culprits I can come up with is either coffee withdrawls or hydration. ...

December 12, 2024

Sometimes writing feels like a chore. It does so right now. I am pretty sure however, that by the time I finish this small post, I will be feeling the positive effects of it already. Much like putting on your running shoes, this is the hardest part. Already I feel like I am in third gear. The resistiance today is mostly due to me start...

December 6, 2024

I don't feel like I have time to write today. I am rushing to get my music quiz ready for tomorrow when I will show some of my close friends. Even though it's just a demo, and I expect there to be bugs, I still want it working well. I also have some stuff at work I need to take care of. On top of this, I feel like I still haven't gotte...

December 5, 2024

Ai is here to stay. No doubt about that these days. So why should we still learn to write and read? Could we not just remove that modality and use only speech to communicate with each other, and over the wire? I think this might be what will happen in some degree. We still need to learn the 'other' skills however. Writing is thinking. ...

December 4, 2024

I just checked my roof again. It's pouring down outside, and there is only a tiny place around the chimeny where a few drops of water are coming in. I feel so relieved that I no longer have to worry about rain coming in. Yes, yes, I still need a proper roof. But all things considered, my plan so far is working out quite nicely. Let's t...

December 3, 2024

Another morning, another planning. I feel like I am over the 'novelty' hump of doing daily planning. I still like doing it, although it does feel a bit like a chore nowadays. It does it's job though. When I don't have an idea of how I want to spend my day, it usually all goes down the drain. I feel restless at the end of the day. Proba...