A reader’s library of original work

I turn anything into a story.

From a 4 a.m. confessional to peer-reviewed rigour. Pick a category below, or read anything in full.

Column · Brand voice

Delulu Instead of “You Can Do It”

The positive kind of delusion — the price of authenticity, and ten reasons it’s this season’s best look.

Column · Culture

Life Comes Before Work

The generation that traded the nine-to-five for an unbearable lightness of being.

Column · Brand voice

Dear Diary, I Love Spending Money

Consumption as therapy, souvenir shops as salvation, and a refusal to be buried with savings.

Column · Brand voice

Upper East Side Drama

What it means when the avocado toast is overcooked — a Gossip Girl theory of aspiration.

Column · Culture

Law, Order & Skincare

Four years of serums and self-knowledge — and why the persistent one, not the beautiful one, wins.

Culture

After the Club Lights

The limited-edition world that begins when the club closes — spontaneity and personal mythology.

Science humour

Planetarily Popular Planets

Why one ordinary planet became a cultural icon, and how Mercury gives our conscience a paid holiday.

Essay · Science & strategy

What They Don’t Tell You in the Laboratory

The scientific mind is a business superpower — trained to break its own hypothesis, fluent in translating complexity.

Essay · Science & strategy

Research Is a Creative Process

The method is disciplined; the questions are not. Why bad research just confirms the hypothesis.

Essay · Science & strategy · AI

AI as a Thinking Partner vs a Decision Maker

AI is extraordinary at execution and incapable of the thing that precedes it: deciding which problem is worth solving.

Essay · Science & design

Science Can Be Beautiful

What biotech and healthcare can learn from fashion and hospitality — because trust is a clinical outcome.

Essay · Brand strategy

Building a Fashion Brand Without Selling Fashion

The single strategic decision that defined Teškoe: we decided not to sell clothing.

Science journalism

The Supplement Talk Nobody Had With Us

Creatine, collagen and protein for women — and the research that keeps getting buried under “just eat balanced meals.”

Science journalism

Why Most Supplement Brands Sell Hope, Not Science

Reading the label is not the same as reading the study. A field guide to critical reading.

Science journalism

OCD: When the Brain Works Overtime

Not a cute quirk about arranging pencils — a look inside a mind on a loop, and a plea to listen.

Diary · Translated

The Barbie Phone Diary

A vow of digital abstinence — maps, dermatologists, the sea as freedom, and why we’re all a little bit Karađorđe.

Memoir

I Had to Burn Before I Learned

From a molecular biology lab to the work I love — learning by scars, and a Python detour.

Personal · AI

I Didn’t Need More Answers

When AI feels like a miracle until it becomes a curse — and remembering who you were before the answers became instant.

Personal

The Ship of Theseus

If every original piece is replaced, is it still the same ship? On identity, change, and holding on to anxiety.

Personal · Culture

L’art pour l’anxiété

A childhood Van Gogh biography, Paris, and art as a lifelong quick fix for anxiety.

Memoir

Gin from Vienna

The cheapest gin that tasted like poison and made the best memories — a small story about growing up.

Humour

Collision of Titans: Natalija and the Bitter Sun

An SPF addict, a family-sized supply, and the friend who used it all by day three.