Thoughts never written are thoughts wasted - Extrachelle
August 7, 2025
Week 1: Hospitality industry isn't aware automation exists. That's a good thing though. Otherwise, they would be terrified.
Week 2: I misunderstand music lyrics most of the time.
Week 3: Why do hotels love sterile imagery? Once I thought I was booking a hospital room.
Week 4: People hesitate to say cliches because it's perceived as tiresome, not because they're usually wrong.
Week 5: Economies that thrive by tourism, fall by tourism. But who cares about risk...
Week 6: When you try to recall a trip, suddenly the smell crosses your mind.
Week 7: Rarely do we travel to follow rules. Or do we?
Week 8: Why are we so obsessed with cleaning the mirror immediately after taking a shower?
Week 9: I need WhatsApp to tell me every time someone clicks my name.
Week 10: Hairdressers, therapists and sales teams can be a growth lever for some startups.
Week 11: I'm not even sorry to say that Winy Maas's ideas about Albania are stupid because they're timid.
Week 12: Yeah, it's a good idea to listen less often to academics, but it's possibly an amazing idea to stop listening to people that urge you to stop listening to academics.
Week 13: Sharing is uncaring. Even selfish. Share more, more, more.
Week 14: Why don't ChatGPT answer your question with a question? Are my questions always that clear? Hmmm.
Week 15: Please stop being so thrilled on LinkedIn. You've reached breaking point. You will break the internet.
Week 16: Free speech doesn't exist. It's all propaganda speech. Make sure that stays free though.
Week 17: Don't you think there's something wrong with these type of tourism advertisements - "Maldives, discover paradise for only £899/person?" Why do they think paradise is a place where you just go there, enjoy the views, maybe swim, party and then you can leave, easily?
Week 18: Hikers know a lot about alcohol.
Week 19: I had a lot to write, so I'm not writing at all. Hmmm who am I lying?
Week 20: A lot of popular places can be easily visited during a layover. You're just looking for a selfie in the Leaning Tower of Pisa, aren't you?
Week 21: After watching "Before the Sunrise", travel advice feels evil [scam].
Week 22: It's cool to see that Kanye West's greatest song is so little known.
Week 23: Tic. Tac. Lindy
Week 24: Energy this, energy that. Why everyone keeps talking about this energy thing nowadays? Don't you lose energy talking about energy?
Week 25: Pretend. Easy. Solved.
Week 26: People love gambling. They use their phones to do everything. What if one day you forget it?
Week 27: Sterile: free from bacteria and other living microorganisms; totally clean.
Week 28: Sterile: lacking in imagination, creativity, or excitement; uninspiring or unproductive.
Week 29: People are so focused on talking about focus.
Week 30: Offending is a way to open a conversation. Sometimes it's the best one.
Week 31: There's a good reason why Ismail Kadare shouldn't ever get the Nobel Prize in literature. Yes you're right I haven't read most of his books. Hmmm.
Week 32: Actually, all Elon Musk's companies are one.
Week 33: Don't choose either side. Choose both.
Week 34: Why should we waste a lot of money to buy polyester?
Week 35: Free speech ruins mystery.
Week 36: Build a great product. Even devil thinks that's the right thing to do.
Week 37: Smoking causes two bad things. The least damaging is death.
Week 38: Unzip
Week 39: Alternative media doesn't seem so alternative these days.
Week 40: Why we travel remains one of the most overlooked questions.
Week 41: Remove unblocking
Week 41: Sound of the boots on the floor
Week 42: If a question gets an answer from Google, it means it wasn't a hard question.
Week 43: Having free speech is like having food in abundance
Week 44: Online is the minority. Tyrannic minority. Extremist minority. War losers minority.
Week 45: Oh, so many artists around.
Week 46: Remix every day.
Week 47: Others are thinking the same way we are thinking.
Week 48: Citing - The problem for us is not, "Are our desires satisfied or not?" The problem is, "How do we know what we desire?" There is nothing spontaneous, nothing natural, about human desires. Our desires are artificial. We have to be taught to desire. Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire, it tells you how to desire.
Week 49: Don't make me think
Week 50: Unknown unknowns
Week 51: Should we enjoy working on bullshit jobs?
Week 52: Bad beats nothing. Nothing beats nothing.
Week 53: "The only constant in life is change" is average quality thought.
Week 54: People hate when you want to sell to them. They hate you even more when you pretend you aren't selling to them. They can smell the hypocrisy from a mile away. Skin in the game.
Week 55: We have to produce or else ...
Week 56: Atheism is not lindy. Atheism is boring.
Week 57: Do atheists believe the devil exists?
Week 58: People are leaving Albania not for its economical reasons but purely because its boring. Stuck culture.
Week 59: Atheists talk more about God than anyone else. Are obsessed.
Week 60: Roaring
Week 61: For You tab is a disease. Good job though.
Week 62: Why is everyone an expert in toxins these days?
Week 63: What makes something BEST OF in tourism?
Week 64: TV is the cheapest form of entertainment. Runner-up is travel.
Week 65: How much unlearning did you have to do?
Week 66: Most people feel disappointed when they hear about the concept of tourist gaze.
Week 67: 3rd eye. 3rd person. 3rd competitor.
Week 68: Entropy
Week 69: People used to imitate movie characters. Now they imitate memes
Week 70: Silversmithing
Week 71: Internet is addictive because it is free.
Week 72: Free speech propagandists are just virtue signaling.
Week 73. Baggy pants were invented by thieves.
Week 74: Should I follow a person online for a long period of time?
Week 75: Stuck
Week 76: I know most people are wrong on most things. I just don't know why.
Week 77: Several L
Week 78: Stuck again.
Week 79: C&E
Week 80: Rich people are "loyal" to the brands they buy from. Hmmm.
Week 81: Spotify users should be able to share with other Spotify users staying inside a 10 meter distance of what they are listening to.
Week 82: Yeezy's distinctive asset is Ye.
Week 83: Brand is an entity.
Week 84: You will put screens in your face and wires in your brain because it will help you outcompete the competitor. Survival of the fittest? Enjoy.
Week 85: Writing only 101 articles is annoying.
Week 86: Domestication is comfortable.
Week 87: Why the origin of names is always noble?
Week 88: Ceiling lights should be banned. Even ceiling itself should be banned.
Week 89: Lack of distractions
Week 90: Build more fainting rooms.
Week 91: Thoughts never written leave no space for other thoughts to come in.
Week 92: Creating concepts is overrated. Their purpose is not meant to explain stuff. Humans are not able to explain life
Week 93: People talk a lot about sharing. The problem is with whom? Where?
Week 94: Oh, so many contrarians around these days.
Week 95: If I need caffeine to do the job, I don't do the job.
Week 96: Persuasion techniques rarely work. Even when they work it isn't worth it. But the Greeks said...
Week 97: I hate having to be detail oriented.
Week 98: Logic is always used to justify average decisions.
Week 99: Oh, so many get cringed these days.
Week 100: Good marketing feels like a no makeup makeup look for the brand.
Week 101: Urban fabric/Social fabric
Week 102: People don't live each day as if it were the last because they want to postpone their last day.
Week 103: Montana, US
Week 104: What people describe as chaotic, vibrant, thrilling most of the times doesn't mean that.
Week 105: We are influenced to jump directly into conclusions.
Week 106: Kids in 20s generously giving free advice and telling people what to do.
Week 107: Again spotting people wanting to jump directly into conclusions. But but but I know what you have in mind...
Week 108: Again energy! The quote "Be the energy you want to attract" is a carefully engineered individualistic propaganda.
Week 109: New political organisations in Albania are sterile. No SITG.
Week 110: Dadaism is nothing special. It's just remix without any idea. Or at best it has an anti-idea.
Week 111: We believe things that don't exist. Waste of time.
Week 112: Engineering is not science
Week 113: "Speech to the Young" by Gwendolyn Brooks: "Even if you are not ready for day, it cannot always be night." To me this a direct financial advice disguised as a poem.
Week 114: We talk - even though rarely - about new perspectives for things in life. However, we talk - most of the time - about things that are already solved as if they are there to be discovered.
Week 115: 0-1
Week 116: Don't ever use "fermentation" as metaphor if you have never actually fermented in real life.
Week 117: "In order to solve a problem, it has to get worse" - Henry Kissinger. People who happen to claim that have solve issues just happen to be at that moment where the problem can't get worse.
Week 118: I hate it when I vividly recall memories and scenes influenced by media. I especially hate it when this happens while I am doing an activity that strongly corresponds to the media content stored in my brain. I hate it because it feels like I’m playing a role while it happens.
Week 119: Vibe coding is like having a mortgage in an uncertain economic environment—it just gives you the illusion that you own a home.
Week 120: Being aware of Eurodollar system is enough to change my thinking about life.
Week 121: Theosis gives a third way (Via Negativa). Sacrifice.
Week 123: Free Will is free will. Nothing more.
Week 124: Supply chain = Inflation/Deflation
Week 125: Consciousness vs DNA
Week 126: "What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love" - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Week 127: Standard of Living = Real Estate Assets + Cash flow.
Week 128: Don't embrace hard stuff. Hard stuff will embrace you.
Week 129: Read Stories, Only Stories, Worth Telling.
Week 129: Walking. Running. Sprinting. VO2 Max. Gym. Swimming.
Week 130: Football. Volleyball. Karting. Silversmithing. Climbing. Iconography. Horseriding.
Week 131: Surprising places are so limited. Most are manufactured surprising places.
Week 132: Albanians.
Week 133: Filter Everywhere, Anytime.
Week 134: Frequent Laughs and Periodic Surprises follow a 80/20 law.
Week 135: Carpenter, Surfer, Bartender are so similar.
Week 136: Meals are meant to be shared.
Week 138: S&D
Week 139: "What does it feel like, I ask you tonight. To live a real life?" - Ye
Week 140: Reciprocal Gratitude doesn't need contracts
Week 141: Nothing to Hide. No need to Show.
Week 142: Ability to Nap
Week 143: Real wealth is relationships and time. That’s it. That’s all of it.
Week 144: Reductionism. Or tunnel vision. Lets take the principle of subsidiarity. When you zoom in it looks decentralised (or localism). When you zoom out it's a mechanism that pilots globalism. Reductionist vision of globalism now rebranded as "localism to a local scale".
Week 145: Values...
Week 146: Keep close
Week 147: Fun or less pain
Week 148: A Time for Everything
Week 149: What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Week 150: Never had an original though. At best its just opposite of what others think.
Week 151: Psychology makes sense, feels rights but its completely wrong.
Week 152: Weirdly, people that say watching media is deceiving, watch more media than anyone that presumably is being deceived.
Week 153: Man have hope. That's why are more prone to lottery and gambling.
Week 154: What is the opposite of luck?
Week 155: People say "don't say this, don't say that", Just say it out loud, just to see how it feels
Week 156: Trade off anytime
Week 157: scale. scaLE. sCALE. SCALE MATTERS.
Week 158: What is an asset?
Week 159: Want. Want. Want!!!!
Week 160: Social Security/National Insurance could not be so secured in the near future.
Week 161: Entertainment content is a way to escape reality. Just like travel. That's why both are surrounded by cheap vibes.
Week 162: Quizzes are the stupiest thing ever created.
Week 163: Prudence is a form of Roman courage - Nassim Taleb
Week 164: Machines can't want.
Week 165: 38:46
Week 166: Our deepest desire is to know ourselves
Week 167: People are so fragile because they are so confident.
Week 168: How many times have you change your mind?
Week 169: New perspectives don't make sense in the beginning. Even though I don't understand what it means, I believe it is something of value.
Week 170: We mimic other desires, because we are one.
Week 171: "The task is not to find the lovable object, but to find the object before you lovable – whether given or chosen – and to be able to continue finding this one lovable, no matter how that person changes. To love is to love the person one sees." - Søren Kierkegaard
Week 172: I hate group empathy. Empathy is never a group exercise. You know cases when a piazza is full of people and an ambulance has to pass through. People as expected open the road and in the end they ... clap. Why the fuck clap in that specific moment? I hate it. Fuck fake group empathy. Just open the road and maybe pray a little in silence.
Week 173: Skin in the game & Empathy. Men and Women
Week 174: "To define it to limit" - Oscar Wilde
Week 175: Sanity or success. When you have sanity, you want success and when you achieve it you want sanity back.
Week 176: I don't know how to formulate it clearly. Adrenaline is completely opposite of joy and happiness.
Week 177: Depression is a concept designed for short men.
Week 178: Are you afraid of being cringe?
Week 179: Wanting to change your whole life after winning the lottery is not fair to your current life.
Week 180: Words invented by internet are cooked.
Week 181: Intuition gives you direction. Your values and character helps you with the journey. You can't rely on intuition after you choose direction. It's not reliable.
Week 182: When I decide to use a product/service created by humans, I always ask the question who created this stuff in the first place. What kind of person was he/she? For example who the fuck has created quizzes?
Week 183: In communism there is no sacrifice. Yes, there is a lot of pain but people don't sacrifice because they want or need to. Capitalism give people freedom to sacrifice because they want or need to. Capitalism give people the meaning.
Week 184: Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, know how to dress well. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, have a good taste for good music. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, speak more than one language. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, are patient with children. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, cook very well. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, care about the environment. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, dance well. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, help young people. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, play musical instruments. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, tell good stories. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, run great businesses. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, have a good sense of humor. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, practice martial arts. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, build beautiful buildings. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, save animals. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, meditate daily. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, have flawless skin. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, organize community events. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, speak well in public. Some of the most disgusting people I’ve ever met, even, make great art.
You get what I mean? DO YOU GET IT? DO YOUUU?
Week 185: "A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for" - Someone
Week 186: How does the atmosphere feel like, a bit before an economic crash?
Week 189: Oxygen, Water, Sunlight, Electrolytes, Cold Water, Red Light Therapy (Sauna). Bath (UK).
Week 190: I think that I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring– Roger Penrose
Week 191: People are very open to new things – as long as they are exactly like the old ones– Charles Kettering
Week 192: Sunrise. Cold Water. Sunset. Hot Water. Food. Latitude. nnEMF. 2-4 PM. 3-5 PM.
Week 193: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10135185/
Week 194: "I gave up doing things my way" - Ye
Week 195: https://jackkruse.com/three-essential-biohacks-why-biohacking-starts-with-your-environment/
Week 196: https://jackkruse.com/jet-lag-rx-human-flight-biohacking/
Week 197: https://jveuxdusoleil.fr/#17/48.86397/2.34680
Week 198: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38826127
Week 199: It's silly to think that routine comes from starting little every day and building momentum for at least a few weeks. Bullshit. It is a matter of free will. Do you want it or not?
Week 200: It's silly to think that downfall comes slow. It could be gradual for a little bit of time but then it's instant. No time to save yourself.