Sometimes the summer break arrives too early. Actually, not too early, as I look forward to it. But you know how hard it is to close the open issues. Meet the deadlines. Packing the suitcases.

This time, it felt like crashing into the holidays.

Which resulted in a severe (and metaphorical) concussion. No more writing or publishing – for a while.

Now I’m back in Brussels. Back to work. Back to writing about it.

Just so you know...

I won't be able to deliver the promised Part II of the Metro de Madrid post. It's not that I haven't tried. Several times, actually. But I was just writing generalities; nothing of real value.

Then, I listened to Henrik Karlsson talk about how he only writes about things he’s been working on for a year.

That clicked on me.

The first post I published (technically the second, but it was the trigger) was very easy to write because it was something I’d been working on for a long time: discussing it, wrapping my head around it, and getting stuck in circular arguments.

The new assignment with Metro de Madrid is a very exciting one. I love just knowing it’s around the corner, that soon I’ll start working on it. But it still needs time—and work.

So, no Part II. At least, for now.

Fortunately, I have other topics I’ve been working on for a long time; I hope to publish on those soon. But no more promises from my side (after failing on the last one).

Thanks a lot for being there: subscribing, commenting and sharing.

PS: By the way, here you can find the conversation with Henrik Karlsson on the podcast ‘How I Write’ which I discovered thanks to Paul Bloom's Small Potatoes Substack.