Sick. Cash. Health. Care. When someone does business with the sick, something is wrong with the system. The association forced itself on me when I took the German word “Krankenkasse” — health insurance, literally “sick cash” —...

Sick cash vs. Health Care. What language reveals about medicine. And what Southlake Health in Newmarket reveals about Canada. My 72 hours as a Cable Guy. 🫀 #SwissChris #Healthcare #Canada
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Piece of Advice The impact was less hard than expected. But the burning on my cheek was impossible to ignore — and good advice was hard to come by. It felt like a clap in the face. Though this very thing — advice in...

Unsolicited advice = an unpaid slap. As a teenager, I fixed that: a contract and a hundred dollars. It worked. #PieceOfAdvice #SwissChris
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Three. And. A. Half. Per. Cent. "Your story today is political again, Christian." Hmm. True. But that wasn't intentional — there was no deliberate plan to make this story political. Why? Because the perfectly ordinary li...

3.5% of the population can end a dictatorship — if the resistance stays nonviolent. That's Erica Chenoweth's finding after analysing 300+ movements.

Tomorrow NoKing marches across the US for the third time. 🇺🇸

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#NoKing #SwissChris

Salon-Worthy The elegant living room has always been an aspiration — ever since civilization, and interior design, were invented.

Salon-worthy used to mean upward mobility. Today I wonder if the term still holds — when the bulldozers have long been at work. Woodstock had no dress code. Neither do I. 🌿 #SwissChris #Society #Culture
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Dumbo He wasn’t suddenly there in the room. He’d been present for quite some time. But nobody wanted to notice Dumbo. Or worse: talk about Dumbo. That would be what you might call an absurdity. An absurdity...

Dumbo’s been standing in the room for ages. Large, grey, impossible to miss. And no one says a word. 🐘 SwissChris wonders: how does Dumbo feel about that? A story about metaphors, courage & grown-up silence. #SwissChris #ElephantInTheRoom
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Risk — A Chocolate Bar Name with a Bitter Aftertaste Risk? What reads here like the name of a chocolate bar turns out to be far more complex in practice — and rarely comes with any sweetness attached.

Risk sounds like a chocolate bar. It isn't. 🍫 Free climbers, stock speculators, risk managers — everyone dances with risk. Nobody beats it. But some people learn to outsmart it. "No Risk No Fun" — sometimes that's actually true. 🔗 swisschris.ca/st-en/blog/p... #SwissChris #Risk #Essay

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"That's just not done!" — four words deployed far too often as a verdict, when understanding would be the better answer. New essay #SwissChris #Inclusion #Society
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Hu Man Oh no! There he is again – popping up out of seemingly nowhere, without warning. When a word gets dissected into its parts, the original meaning starts to crumble a little. But the variants that emerg...

Hu Man. The man is hiding in the word. So is the history.
An essay on humanism, human dignity, and when exactly we took a wrong turn.
Hey Man – Get Human. Again.
#Humanism #SwissChris
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Swiss Chris Blog Isn't it amazing what surprising stories an almost still-asleep brain wants to produce in the morning? And sometimes even can?

Hopeium — finance’s word for naive optimism. For me: the starting gun for every project I’ve ever dared to begin. New essay at swisschris.ca
#Hopeium #SwissChris
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BACKWARDS When the thing is pointed the wrong way, picks up speed, and the obstacle appears out of nowhere – that’s when it gets expensive. Three times the reverse gear in a tin box has handed me the bill.

Three times the reverse gear handed me the bill. 🚗
“Things were better back then!” – simply not true. Hans Rosling’s “Factfulness” explains why. Ten instincts.
#Factfulness #SwissChris #HansRosling

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Swiss Chris Blog Isn't it amazing what surprising stories an almost still-asleep brain wants to produce in the morning? And sometimes even can?

Switzerland has represented the U.S. in Iran for 46 years.
This week it closed its airspace.
When the trusted intermediary says no, Washington listens.
My column → swisschris.ca
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#Switzerland #DualCitizen #SwissChris

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Anonymity: protection for victims. Cover for perpetrators. And that classroom where nobody wanted to say "it was me"…

"Secret" becomes "uncanny" faster than you'd think.

New essay: swisschris.ca #Anonymity #SwissChris
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"Cyranomising" — a word that doesn't exist. And yet it perfectly captures what language can do: seduce, deceive, and touch the heart. Cyrano de Bergerac was a fictional character. Edmond Rostand was the real genius. 👃✍️ swisschris.ca #SwissChris #Literature #Language
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Swiss Chris Blog Isn't it amazing what surprising stories an almost still-asleep brain wants to produce in the morning? And sometimes even can?

"Eve — are you naïve?"
"Pardon?"

Naivety isn't a flaw. It's innocence. And sometimes the most direct route to creativity. 🕊️

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#Naivety #Creativity #SwissChris
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But if we simply refuse — there will never be war again! For a long time, Kurt had slipped from my memory. But here in 2026, he's back: Kurt Tucholsky, the passionate, pen-wielding fighter against war.

A giant dice. A spray-painted fist. And a dictator who fled without a single shot being fired.

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#Otpor #NonviolentResistance #PeaceNotWar #History #SwissChris