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I love my kind - introverts :) That is why I was so happy to... 7 Aug 2013 | 02:54 am
I love my kind - introverts :) That is why I was so happy to read Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. The author, Susain Cain, does a great job of explaining how intro....
Key Concepts: World View 29 Jul 2013 | 09:01 am
I am at a point in life where doubt is my greatest certainty. One of the few things I’m very committed to is expanding my worldview. To keep it simple, by world view I understand the sum of my percep...
Dreaming of Unobtainia 28 Jul 2013 | 01:34 pm
We are all living a mass psychosis: the lust for world that does not exist - Unobtainia. My favorite example are airline magazines - some seem printed entirely to advertise this utopian world. It goe...
The Psychology of Nations 20 Jun 2013 | 01:45 am
Can we live in a world without war? A classical utopian question that deserves a proper answer. I have always been fascinated by international politics and struggled to figure out the reasoning behin...
On Staying Gold 10 Jun 2013 | 12:15 am
My New Year’s Resolution was Stay Gold! It was a commitment to myself, made to make sure I could be content with me. I needed it, because as the poem has it, often it felt like nothing gold can stay. ...
Key Concepts: Ambivalence 31 May 2013 | 09:57 pm
One of the most important things I learned over the last years is mastering ambivalence. The short version: ambivalence is the state of having contradictory feelings and beliefs. Ambivalence is a ve...
Vice.com is by far the best source of kick-ass documentaries.... 23 May 2013 | 12:14 am
Vice.com is by far the best source of kick-ass documentaries. I’m completely hooked on it! This documentary, The Vice Guide to Liberia, reminds me how fragile our social equilibrium is. As a global s...
Economics in One Lesson 15 May 2013 | 12:50 am
Can you have decent economic knowledge if you read just one economics book your entire life? Yes. If you read this one: Economics in One Lesson [PDF] - by Henry Hazlitt It was written in 1946 and up...
Are you happy? 13 May 2013 | 11:01 am
Happiness is always at the top of our wishlists. But how often does one actively think and work on being happy. Sounds weird? Only if you haven’t done it before. The second you start thinking about h...
Dubai, as I felt it. A great documentary that captures the true... 13 May 2013 | 01:09 am
Dubai, as I felt it. A great documentary that captures the true essence of the place. Every documentary I saw until now about Dubai or the Emirates focuses either on the glamour or on the horror, bot...
