Yuval Noah Harari is an interesting phenomenon. For a historian, he's extremely popular. In a culture dominated by Instagram celebrities and teenage Youtubers, he stands out as a solid professional, astute thinker and prolific writer, with best-sellers like "Sapiens" or…
It's always nice to look back at your life and see that some of your actions are still making sense, so to speak. Or, to be more precise, it's nice to revisit some projects that you put on hold and…
As I already wrote in the first post of these series, the concept of Karma is at the same time simpler, but more inclusive than the popular Western belief "justice shall be made". There is no external judge, applying some…
5 years ago I started to follow Buddhism as a way of living. I don’t consider it a religion, so I’m not identifying as a “Buddhist”. There are more formalized ways to embrace this lifestyle, like taking vows and joining…
I started this blog more than 10 years ago, but I write more or less “intently” on it for exactly 10 years. In 2009 I decided to try out this hype thing - yes, I’m that old, since when blogging…
It’s been already a year since we moved to Spain, and I already wrote about the overall experience. In today’s article I want to focus on a specific area of the expat lifestyle, namely remote working in Spain. Spoiler: it’s…
Lately I spent a lot of time brushing up my programming skills. On top of blockchain and cryptography, which were already on the table, so to speak, I also studied artificial intelligence. I find this domain absolutely fascinating, but for…
The year is 1448 and the city is Berlin, Germany. Although the proper name, at that time, for this settlement, should probably be Berlin-Colln. An eclectic conglomerate of peasants, guilds members and freshly made aristocracy, where the second emperor of…