Podcast: whereskarlo

Belgium turns out to be a multifaceted place, and it blows Karl’s mind. Modernist meets ultra-west. There are canals that travel across bridges, massive enough to carry serious boats. Belgium has a flair and flavor that weaves together several feelings and cultures — reminiscent of places that shouldn’t go together, but somehow do.

After a fantastic time in France, enjoying wonderful food, nature, and culture, Karl realizes he could never live there. He coins the term “high effort society” after observing a country caught between the rule-following precision of Germany and the freewheeling charm of the Mediterranean.

Many entrepreneurs get consumed by their own creation. They allow their business to eat their energy and time to the point where they are eventually working for their business instead of their business working for them. This episode explores how a mental shift can liberate you from such proverbial slavery and help you recognize that…

Karl explores what it means to trust that inner voice—perhaps the voice of God, your soul, or the universe—and allowing it to guide you through life. Sometimes we question our path, and that is when we need to learn to let go, have faith, and trust the outcome. When things do not turn out as…

Karl deletes a few recordings and realizes he is heading down a slippery slope that leads to no more content being released. What was the reason? After some introspection, he finds the phantom audience, and dismisses them in order to liberate his voice. This episode covers the creative process, “just doing it” and not falling…

Karl has an encounter with CBD and is not impressed. He has smoked lots of weed in the past but has largely cut that habit as of late. He decides to try CBD to see if it can be a good substitute, but instead discovers the dark undercurrents of addiction, habits, ritual, and crutches.

To my friends at La Barca in Bussana Vecchia, it was a great pleasure to meet you all. To the Latvian guys, I wish we meet again. To Ronald and Sofia, I am sure we will. Me and Skrong had to leave because the cops drove us away from sleeping at the prison street. So…

After a noisier E01, recording while driving on the French equivalent of the Autobahn, Karl records the intro to the podcast itself. This is a brief overview of what this project is about and how it will naturally evolve.

Karl drives from Antibes in France towards Marseille. After having spent the night at a Carrefour Hypermarket parking lot and working on his laptop the following morning, he reflects on how the digital world causes us to constantly withdraw from the present moment. Can we be present while simultaneously preoccupying ourselves with the digital realm?…