“Even when laws change… if your heart isn’t changed, it doesn’t change.”
Ethics & Values
‘It Takes a Village to Raise a Child’
A wealth of evidence has shown that the first 1,000 days of an infant’s health and wellbeing is crucial to build a strong foundation for a child to thrive throughout their lifetime.
A wealth of evidence has shown that the first 1,000 days of an infant’s health and wellbeing is crucial to build a strong foundation for a child to thrive throughout their lifetime.
A Personal View on Personal Space
Thoughts on fear, respect, and military service.
Thoughts on fear, respect, and military service.
Women’s Electability Rises in Indonesia’s 2018 Local Elections
The third round of regional elections (Pilkada) in Indonesia, held on June 27 2018, showed an increase in women’s electability as local political leaders.
The third round of regional elections (Pilkada) in Indonesia, held on June 27 2018, showed an increase in women’s electability as local political leaders.
From ‘The Friendzone’ to ‘Simp Nation’
How feminism gets canceled by every generation.
How feminism gets canceled by every generation.
Don’t Be a ‘Real’ Man, Be a Better Man
The idea in your head is likely to be a blend of what the healthy version of masculinity, and the traditional, let’s call it ‘real man’, unhealthy one.
The idea in your head is likely to be a blend of what the healthy version of masculinity, and the traditional, let’s call it ‘real man’, unhealthy one.
6 Rings
A Kobe Bryant Story
A Kobe Bryant Story
A Small Town Responds to Its Own – and Other’s – Racism
Intersectional identities, micro-aggressions and the need to speak out.
Intersectional identities, micro-aggressions and the need to speak out.
White Work
We must continue every day to root out that deeply entrenched racism like a coal miner going deeper and deeper into a mine, getting closer and closer to the fires of hell.
We must continue every day to root out that deeply entrenched racism like a coal miner going deeper and deeper into a mine, getting closer and closer to the fires of hell.
Do We Need to Defund the Police to Improve Law Enforcement?
First steps towards greater racial and social justice in community policing.
First steps towards greater racial and social justice in community policing.
Religious Diversity on the Road
Even diversity & inclusion trainers struggle when addressing religious diversity as demographics changes and the global economy make religion-related issues more frequent.
Even diversity & inclusion trainers struggle when addressing religious diversity as demographics changes and the global economy make religion-related issues more frequent.
Stoicism as a Martial Art
What the stoic philosophers learned from combat sports.
What the stoic philosophers learned from combat sports.
Reasons Not to Scoff at Ghosts, Visions and Near-Death Experiences
By Andreas Sommer ‘If the fruits for life of the state of conversion are good, we ought to idealise and venerate it, even though it be a piece of natural psychology; if not, we ought to make short work with it, no matter what supernatural being may have infused it.’ From The Varieties of Religious…
Founders of Indonesia’s Health and Research Institutes Were Prolific Academic Writers
For 90 years, between 1852 and 1942, the Medical Journal of the Dutch Indies (Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indië) was Indonesia’s most important medical journal in the colonial era.
For 90 years, between 1852 and 1942, the Medical Journal of the Dutch Indies (Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indië) was Indonesia’s most important medical journal in the colonial era.
What Is Normal?
What is normal after the Covid-19 pandemic?
What is normal after the Covid-19 pandemic?
On Pardons
We need to change the law governing the granting of pardons.
We need to change the law governing the granting of pardons.