Finding Your Hidden, Fun Skills: The skills we don’t put on our CVs On the shared screen, a definition appears: Hidden skills are the small, surprising abilities we don’t often show. They explore it like two people poking at a treasure map. The teacher offers examples that sound almost childlike in their simplicity: None of…
You can’t ask for better motivation than that. I arrived at the sports grounds like I have been doing for the past two weeks, and for the first time there was someone else running there as well. I was surprised but also realised that I probably weren’t the only running around there. But with having…
At exactly 18:00 Fruitloop Time, the constitutional order of Brida was—quite casually—overthrown. A message arrived from Acting Mayor Fruitloop, calmly informing the actual Mayor that he was now officially relieved of duty. No ceremony, no debate, no vote — just a smooth administrative coup wrapped in laughing emojis and delivered with the confidence of someone…
On a dreary, foggy Monday in Cleebourg, France, the Mayor dials into Campo Grande, Brazil. Two dots on a map; one conversation about survival—less machetes and palm fronds, more mindset and modern street smarts. Ritesh from Bangalore can’t make it, which nudges the theme away from a geographical compare-and-contrast and toward something intimate and universal:…
When historians finally write the story of Brida’s autumn of 2025, they’ll face an impossible question:Was it a coup?Was it a comedy?Or was it just another week in the world’s most delightfully chaotic community? While the Mayor packs for his first holiday in a decade, the Brida Council reels from two simultaneous crises: a peaceful…
Waking up in the morning, depends from person to person. Are you still half asleep? Are you annoyed to be awake? Are the birds singing too loudly? Whether you are happy, grumpy, angry, tired, excited, motivated or just meh! You cross a mirror somewhere. What happens in mirror time? You find two eyes staring back…
Monday, late morning. Alexander dials in from Bavaria in Germany; the Mayor sits in a small Alsatian village, Cleebourg, with the November light trying its best through cloud. The question arrives as simply as coffee poured into a familiar mug: Are you an optimist or a pessimist about the future?“I’m an optimist,” Alexander says. He…
Let me start with the boring part of things. Friday night dinner was Chinese take-out, we didn’t feel like cooking and this was our choice, a bit healthier than pizza or burgers. Watched movies and went to bed. Normal boring routine. Saturday was spent lounging around and watching rugby and movies. And the chaos unfolded…
Two dots on the map. Northern Germany. Northeastern France. Rain tapping on two windows, steam rising from two mugs. It’s Monday morning, and the Mayor—our host in Cleebourg—opens the week the Pineapple way: with a warm, slightly mischievous conversation about learning something new. On the other end is Ralf, a barbecue romantic with eleven grills,…
In a previous meeting we spoke about receiving letters from friends and this reminded me of a box of letters I have stacked away in the top of my closet. Letters from friends, old love notes and letters from past time boyfriends and some other trinkets and memories from my school years. I have been…
