KØBENHAVN

I don’t know what it is so rotten about KØBENHAVN, but it seems the entire culture of the city (and the country by extension) is start-up-oriented and extremely enthusiastic. Not always you would find a nice crowd that gathers around impossible-to-use, beautifully-designed furniture pieces and ponders how to simplify all aspects of life, so that it looks similar to a Scandinavian minimalistic living room set up.

Visiting ML again, the white board drawings of business strategies and potential areas for development never stops. It also transcends what would be considered to be an outlier of ideation (ML’s house) versus the rest of the Danes – take a look at how the entire set up works – the non-driver cars of the metro or the simple, optimized taxi stands.

Maybe due to the optimization, the amazing social benefits, or the fact that there is enough meat and candy for everyone, it seems that the general attitude is one of positive inspiration, where society does not look bad on somebody who decided to take a year (or years) between high school and college or even college and work. In fact, such efforts seem to be encouraged.

Which brings me to my main point: I guess this is the third time I am trying to get my blog rolling (similar to my up-and-down desire to quit smoking). I pledge to post at least something every day and I will try to keep it at least till the end of the year (now, I hope you understand that this once a day is just an average, not an actual post per day). I feel inspired and encouraged.