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Six tips for blending in, in New York City

Published on November 23rd, 2008

 

Taking a cab from JFK on a rainy night

Actually, it is not so much the fact that I want to be like everyone else, I do want to stand out in a way. I would like to end up in the position, where neither myself or anybody else perceives me as a tourist or visitor.

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Talk: My life in the digital world

Published on October 2nd, 2008

 

Mathias Vestergaard™ it forum event 2008 v2

Yesterday, on Wednesday October 1st, I gave a very short speech at a conference organized by IT Forum Midtjylland. The theme of the conference was “living in a digital world” and the other speakers included the likes of Marc Prensky and Anne Lise Kjaer.

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Column: Cocktail of the week

Published on July 1st, 2008

 

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One of my recent passions include writing a weekly column about cocktails. It is a voluntary project, but also an excellent reason to get a drink on a plain tuesday afternoon. The column is published almost every week on www.eventuelt.org.

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Article: Aarhus And The City – Part 1/3

Published on November 1st, 2007

 

St. Marks Place in East Village, NY. There is always something to do.

During my fall 2007 stay in New York City I wrote a series of articles about life in the city, compared to my home town Aarhus. The articles were published in the student magazine Delfinen. In this first article in what became a trilogy (published in November 2007, #136) Read more.

 

 

Essay: Provincialism

Published on October 1st, 2006

 

Café table for one, with espresso, sunglasses and a Danish translation of Oliver Sacks 'An Anthropologist on Mars' (1995)

I spent the summer of 2006 in London attending a three-week course in microeconomics at the London School Of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Personally, I found simple microeconomics to be applicable in many areas of life and back in Aarhus I was wondering if I could use it to explain why it is so difficult to meet new people in Aarhus.

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