Speaking
I speak on loneliness as a structural condition — tracing it through how technology reshapes intimacy, how masculinity and power reproduce disconnection, and what it would mean to reorganize life around care and interdependence instead.
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Featured Talks
From Loneliness to Oneliness
Loneliness has been declared an epidemic, measured, and medicalized. What it has not yet been is reimagined. This talk traces loneliness as a structural condition — not a personal failing but the predictable consequence of systems designed around the avoidance of interdependence. Drawing on the Oneliness lens, it asks what becomes possible when we stop running from loneliness and recognize that we were never truly separate to begin with. A preview of the forthcoming book.
What Men Are Missing in Themselves
Male loneliness is not a private struggle. It is a structural consequence, of social conditioning that equates strength with self-sufficiency, of a masculinity that has been taught to need nothing and no one, and of systems that reward performance over presence. This talk traces the connections between male loneliness, power, and political life: how disconnection becomes radicalization, how the personal becomes political, and what a different model of masculinity might actually look like.
Reclaiming Connection in an Age of Artificial Intimacy
AI companions turned best friends and therapists. Social media feeds algorithmically tuned to our emotional state. Platforms designed to simulate the feeling of being seen. Technology has become the endpoint of a long sequence — when every other structure fails to hold us, we reach for the screen. This talk asks what is actually happening when we outsource connection to machines, what it reveals about the loneliness those machines are answering, and what we risk losing in the exchange.
Community Is the Cure—Or Is It?
Community built on the fear of loneliness reproduces the same logic it claims to solve: consumption of connection, performance of belonging, solutionism dressed in warm language. This talk asks what genuine community actually requires — and why the uncomfortable answer begins not with finding your people but with befriending your aloneness. A provocation for anyone building, designing, or commissioning spaces for human connection.
Past Talks
& Conversations
L'Oréal Professional · Pullman Hotels · Phoenix Group · P150 · Nebenan Stiftung · TEDxPotsdam · The Conference Malmö · House of Beautiful Business · Unfinished Festival · Future Days · The Merode Brussels
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“A powerful and thought-provoking session. I must admit felt a little confused at the beginning, but as you unfolded the perspective, the message became clearer, and I was able to connect the dots. It was a meaningful reminder of the deeper responsibility we carry in hospitality, creating spaces where people feel seen, connected, and less alone.”
Sunardi S., Pullmann Hotels Kuching, Indonesia Get in Touch
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