Antidotes to the contemporary malaise: do nothing, and ambitiously so. If you need or want to do something, fine. But in terms of imposed agendas and habitual relationships, just hold your horses for a while. Allow yourself to clearly formulate just how drained these actions and people actually make you feel. Why on earth do you allow it? If it’s a matter of extreme importance, urgency or sustenance, by all means accept. But never uncritically. Most of our time is not spent in urgencies or extreme situations. The run of the mill, the everyday, the trivial regularities… These are the relevant barricades of your existential leakage counterforce. Dare to say NO to what’s expected of you. You don’t have to justify anything to anyone. It feels great to reclaim your time and space, and it’s much easier than you think. Remember Nancy Reagan? “Just say NO!” Please also note what the reactions are to your new attitude. These will be indicative of who or what constitute the greatest...

  There is no need to tell anyone anything. The allure of social media is shortsighted, and especially in the long run. Being glued to dopamine-infused communicational needs spells l-e-a-k-a-g-e. Why spill the beans before it’s even time to cook? Work, work, work. Then package, market, sell. But avoid leakage to the greatest extent possible because it will decimate the potency of the end result. It’s devious how this works: you think you’re informing – enthusiastically so! – but in actual fact you’re deforming both form and content by not keeping the process hermetic. If you have a tight hermetic vessel, you’ll attract far more than with a wide open vessel with ten social media megaphones attached. It’s all in the silent force. Work, work, work. Then package, market, sell. Not the other way around. By the way, this little text could actually be seen as leakage too, so I’d better… stop… writing…     Become a Patron!  

  The tools to really do what I need to do are definitely already there. Every little additional acquisition makes me drift slightly away from the core. Sometimes I’m attracted to an object and I can tangibly feel the inspiration it could provide. An example: a strong desire for the Leica Monochrome or even the Leica X-U. But as I’m not out and about hunting for that kind of image daily and manically, then what does it really matter? Getting to the core is what counts, and not much is really required. Our recent trip to Egypt was a great example of that, with me traveling solely with the Canon G7X. That has never happened before… Just one camera! But still… a successful field trip with ample documentation. It’s all in the writing anyway, with the photos backing up the stories. A camera really can’t (or shouldn’t) take a picture of itself, so what does it matter? Blind tests are pretty great for people like me. Who can tell if I wrote this text with a Montblanc Meisterstück or a...