PRESENT

09/07/2025

Thoughts on Entreprenuership, Food and Purpose with Thuy and Thao, founders of the brilliant 🫰(excerpt from Present Issue 3)

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19/06/2025

Next session tonight! www.present.community

pps: this summer we’ll do it in-person as well: at at HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin: August 28+29. We will host our own PRESENT Open Stage, where you can share your Favourite Unrealized Project in front of a supportive panel of experts composed of selected speakers from the festival.

pps: background image of consistency club banner by antoine paikert

06/04/2025

This is my favourite unrealised project that I dreamed of building this since many years🥹

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My vision is to create an operating system to power up your creative process.

A platform that brings together everything from the PRESENT universe and its growing ecosystem, designed to support and sync with the needs of makers, creators, and anyone courageous enough to pursue their Thing.

21/03/2025

14/03/2025

We all battle the fears and doubts and Resistance in us. And it’s bold to act in spite of this fear and find a way to get started and share your voice and your work, and to finally Do The Thing. This is what I mean when I talk about Courageous Makers.

I simply want to empower anyone who struggles to get started to get closer to their favourite unrealised project. I know how hard it is and I want to make use of all experiences, tools, and skills I have learned so far to support people who are on a similar path.

Present is my Thing. My vehicle to give back. The magazine, the community, the podcast, the website with its growing active archive of essays and interviews, all this content is aiming to encourage.

I keep on working on new ways to make this project better. I will continue the fight against my fears trying to talk me out of it — "because I’m not ready, because I should focus on making money, because there is never enough feedback, because nobody cares, because it’s not my actual job, because I’m not good enough yet” — I listen, but I’m aware it’s the lizard brain talking, the part in us that wants to keep us small and comfortable.

I use it as my compass. What I’m afraid of is exactly what I should do. And I will! This is my promise to you.

14/03/2025

I simply want people to do their thing. I want to empower makers and builders live a life closer to their favourite unrealised project. I know how hard it is and I want to make use of all experiences, tools, and skills I have learned so far to help people who are on a similar path.

We all have to battle the fears and doubts and Resistance in us. And it’s bold to act in spite of this fear and find a way to get started and share your voice and your work, and to finally do the thing. This is what I mean when I talk about Courageous Makers.

Present is my thing. My vehicle to give back. The magazine, the community, the podcast, the website with its growing active archive of essays and interviews, all this content is aiming to empower and to encourage.

I keep on working on new ways to make this project better. I will continue the fight against my fears trying to talk me out of it — ”because I’m not ready, because I should focus on making money, because there is never enough feedback, because nobody cares, because it’s not my actual job, because I’m not good enough yet” — I listen, but I’m aware it’s the lizard brain talking, the part in us that wants to keep us small and comfortable.

I use it as my compass. What I’m afraid of is exactly what I should do. And I will! This is my promise to you.

23/01/2025

17/01/2025

My favorite New Year Reflection is what I call the Future-Gratefulness-Letter. You can do it alone, but it’s also fun together in a group with friends: Take out pen and paper and write a journal entry. Imagine it’s exactly one year from now, picture yourself in 2026 and jot down all the things you are thankful for, as if they already happened.

It's scary how well this works so be careful what you wish for :)

It’s a simple but powerful visualisation technique that sets a gentle, forward-looking tone for the next year. It helped me personally quite a bit and I found it to be more rewarding and impactful than classic to-do list resolutions.

Now I want to thank all of you Present People reading this and wish you the best year ever. Thank you for following me on my journey. It’s an honour to write for you. May you find focus and clarity to go for what you need, for what makes you feel alive! 

There is no one on this earth like you. Take care of yourself. And keep on doing your thing.

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pictured above is the great huckmal with a present painting by lordfolter photographed by jeanraclet

10/01/2025

have a present new year

11/12/2024

"things of quality have no fear of time" moodboard on age and action (part 2)