Category: Perfectionism

I am staring at a blank page. A blinking cursor is waiting for me. Where should I begin? What should I write? I type a few words, but I don’t like their sound and delete them. I insert half a sentence, make it to the first conjunction, and start over again. I try to create another line and end up with a blank page once …

When I was planning to move to Germany back in 2018, DeepL had recently introduced its online translator. DeepL’s ability to turn German into Dutch and vice versa immediately astounded me. It was miles ahead of Google Translate and especially shone when literal translations would not be accurate, like with idiomatic …