What happens when the past expands?

There is a detail near the Great Pyramid of Giza that we rarely talk about. Yet a lot depends on it. Not hidden chambers. Not underground cities. Not radar speculation. ...

January 23, 2026 · 2 min · Human Growth Model

HGM Journal – Culture as shared freedom

There is another layer we rarely articulate when we talk about culture. Yet so much depends on it. For me, culture is not only tradition, not only language, not only memory. It is space. A space we use together. Culture becomes alive not when I am free, but when you can be free next to me. ...

January 22, 2026 · 1 min · Human Growth Model

HGM Journal – What do we call culture?

Today, a post crossed my feed on the Day of Hungarian Culture. It was about what culture means to me. Human experiences. Memories. National motifs. And yet, something was missing. As I started thinking about it, one thing became clear: We often describe culture as an internal experience. But most of the cultures we talk about in everyday life are not internal at all. They are ways of living together. ...

January 22, 2026 · 2 min · Human Growth Model

HGM Journal – When freedom mattered more than the king

Today I came across a text from 1320. It’s called the Declaration of Arbroath. And I paused for a moment. Not because it’s old. But because it felt unexpectedly familiar. In it, a community explains why it keeps its leader. And also when it would not. Not bloodline. Not rank. Not “this is how it’s always been”. ...

January 22, 2026 · 2 min · Human Growth Model

Consciously Human. Professionally, if needed.

(how this blog was built — not technically, but humanly) Let’s start with why, not how. I didn’t want a blog. I wanted a place where thoughts don’t disappear into a feed. Something durable. A space of my own. Not driven by algorithms. So we began with what this blog does not want. It doesn’t want to demand attention. It doesn’t want to decide for you. It doesn’t want to be “smarter” than you. ...

January 21, 2026 · 2 min · Human Growth Model

HGM Journal – How the blog came into being

I didn’t build a blog. At some point, I realised: what was forming was a place. At first, I thought the hard part would be the technical side. Domain. Hosting. Deploy. DNS. SSL. Surprisingly, those were the easiest. ...

January 21, 2026 · 3 min · Human Growth Model

We’re in this shit together

We’re in this shit together. And that’s why it might actually work. 😏 Most of our systems are built on a quiet assumption: that we should have things under control. That we should be coping. That we should be fine. That struggle is a personal failure. So we perform. We optimise. We hide the cracks. And the moment something really goes wrong, people don’t ask for help — they disappear. They burn out. They break down. Sometimes they literally die alone rather than say: “I can’t do this by myself.” ...

January 19, 2026 · 2 min · Human Growth Model

Our definition of success is misaligned

An elderly man was taken to the emergency department. Over the course of the night, the entire right side of his body froze. So severely that doctors said his hand may need to be amputated. This didn’t happen because help wasn’t available. It happened because he didn’t ask for it. Today, people would rather suffer — even die — than ask for help. And this isn’t an individual tragedy. It’s a systemic outcome. ...

January 18, 2026 · 2 min · Human Growth Model

Not every change happens overnight

More and more, I see that the Human Growth Model is not pushing against capitalism. It’s a natural consequence of it. Mental health entered the conversation back in the 1970s. At first on an individual level — mostly through symptoms: burnout, stress, breakdowns. Later, it appeared on a social level: charities, grassroots initiatives, support projects. Important steps — but largely symptom-focused. Then something else began to emerge: awareness. First in individuals. Then in communities. And eventually in organizations. ...

January 13, 2026 · 2 min · Human Growth Model

Why do companies optimise for individuals rather than collective?

Most companies are powered by the collective. Yet they optimise individuals in isolation. Performance is rarely created by one person. It emerges from interaction, timing, trust, and shared context. Yet most organisations focus on: boxed roles individual KPIs responsibility matrices optimisation in silos Instead of optimising connection. When the system doesn’t support natural collaboration, something predictable happens: People get stuck. They feel exposed. They start scheduling meetings — not out of curiosity, but out of fear. ...

January 10, 2026 · 1 min · Human Growth Model