US/DK citizen. Voice behind the "How to Live in Denmark" 10-minute podcast. Author "The Danish Year" and "How to Work in Denmark". Keynote speaker.
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Joined February 2011
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New "How to Live in Denmark" podcast episode! "The Danish Brick." 🇩🇰 🧱
The Danish brick is the basis of almost every Danish home, school, church, and public building: 95% of Danish homes have a brick facade, and builders of concrete apartment blocks...
Hvorfor kommunikerer amerikanere anderledes end danskere på arbejdspladsen?
Book Kay Xander Mellish til et underholdende foredrag om amerikansk arbejdskultur, kulturforskelle og bedre samarbejde med amerikanske kolleger.
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I really enjoy musical political satires made with AI. Here's a new one from France.
BB BURNES - Ingérence Russe 🎙🤟
(Ceci est un contenu fictif purement parodique et caricatural avec une bonne dose de second degré et d'absurde, réalisé avec divers outils IA)
Parodie de BB Brunes avec vos personnages préférés 🤗
Feat. Gabriel Attal, Jean-Noël Barrot, Édouard Philippe, Raphaël Glucksmann, Prisca Thévenot, Emmanuel Macron, Brigitte Macron, Sébastien Lecornu, Gérald Darmanin, François Bayrou.
#attal #rock #glucksmann #philippe #bbbrunes
Exactly what I did - and it's been lots of fun. The holiday season is a great time to look for a job in retail.
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Very excited that my hometown team, @Brewers, have won their first-ever World Series! A great effort by a nice bunch of guys. Congrats.
...out front.
But that all changed in the 1930s, when the newly-founded Aarhus University was building its campus.
A local brick company offered one million yellow bricks free of charge, and the architects accepted.
Yellow bricks suddenly looked chic and modern, and...
began to be used much more widely in prominent buildings.
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As an American who has lived in Europe for more than 25 years, I meet this type of hopeful newcomer a lot. They assume they'll get everything they have in the US *plus* everything available in Europe. But the systems often contradict each other, economically and culturally.
The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean. buff.ly/5cLtnha
For example, our "free" (taxpayer-paid) public health care in Denmark is very reactive: you go to the doctor when you're sick. There's very little preventative care, like an annual physical, and you can't order up, say, a blood test just because you think it's a good idea.
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Business delegation visiting Copenhagen? Book Kay Xander Mellish for a presentation on Danish business culture, including sustainability, flat hierarchy and work-life balance.
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Not a Catholic, but I'm enjoying this book, even though it's written in that very simple, 4th grade vocabulary, NPR style. (Both of the authors are NPR journalists).
Pope Leo is from Chicago, near where I grew up, and he seems like the right man 1/2
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