Jede sollte ihre eigene Schildkröten essen – Gleichheit in der Ungewissheit
Der Ursprung des Ausdrucks ist wie folgt. Man erzählt sich, dass eine Gruppe von Fischern eine große..
26 SeptemberTag: thinking
Montaigne’s Latin
I found this remarkable passage from Montaigne on Facebook; since it was new to me and I figure will..
12 FebruaryFive percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.Thomas Edison
How I Think Or How To Think Critically
The superior mind will find itself equally at odds with the evils of society, and with the projects that are offered to relieve them. I, as the wise skeptic, am a bad citizen; no conservative.
14 NovemberErudition without Bullshit
On the importance of being a polymath:
13 NovemberPolymathics might focus on rapid methods of learning that allow..
Erudition without Bullshit & Stoicism without Sprezzatura
a human being should be able to write a song, cook a tasty meal, butcher a red deer, write poetry,..
8 AugustNo Such Thing as a Rational Belief
‘If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, ’tis only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.’
Coward Philosophers and Intellectual Authoritarianism
I’ve been told that Kant, Hegel and Kierkegaard were poor writers whose impenetrable prose style is incidental to their philosophy. I’ve also been told that their views are so profound as to defy expression in terms comprehensible even to smart, p…
13 FebruaryOn Information and Innovation
Sometimes I am at awe of the amount of information that we have generated and stored. Many have postulated that as economic cost of storage exponentially decreased, we will perpetually expand the amount of information produced – an exponential inc…
2 February