We need categories to organise the world. No doubt. A great place to look for strong categories…
I was roughly sixteen years old when my mom gave me the book that has had the greatest…
In 1985 my family moved from Basel in Switzerland where we had spent eight years too Linz in Austria. I was ten years old at the time and it was the first important turning points in my life.
In the next 15 posts or so will be focussing on lessons life taught me that shaped the way i am today and that created the reflection and learning that led to Deep Alignment. I will alternate between life lessons and books i read.
Imagine a world in which all human beings on the planet are equally rich on all five levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. I believe such a world is not only possible. I believe it must be built. Let’s build it.
#Introduction
Several people asked me for my reading list in the past couple of weeks. So, today i went through 15 years of amazon shopping history which is an interesting experience in itself and parts of my brain to come up with the books i think everyone should read. I tried to order them into broad categories to…
They don’t. What they do is to use previous truths as a proxy for evidence. If executed in a diligent way this is called “the scientific method” — if not, it almost inevitably leads into superstition and prejudice.
In 2018 i will deviate from my original plan. Instead of sticking with my 52 topics i will answer questions. These are questions that (1) i find in the active search for interesting questions, (2) or i stumble upon, or (3) — my favorite- are posed by someone as a challenge.
I love showing my son old technology like dial phones, especially the ones with the rotary dialer. The first expression usually is one of total indifference. He simply lacks the context to make sense of what this weird thing is. Only once i start delivering context his expression gradually changes to…
Using the passing world as a canvas for introspection is very nice and rewarding, but moving all the quarks and electrons that make me up from one place to another through time is exhausting. There better be a good reason for the effort and in my view it’s nothing less than reinvention. It’s a tool for leaving…
