Long Thoughts

Living in a complex world, everyday we’re moving from friend groups, to work, to chores, to dreams, to drama. Each and every area of life has such depths, that it seems like a world in itself. What can be gained, by looking at it through the metaphor of the game of games?

Yesterday I’ve seen “The Boy and the Heron”, or with its original japanese title “How Do You Live?” (君たちはどう生きるか). A grandious movie full of symbols, with much room for interpretation.

The Indian guru Bhagwan - also later known as Osho - has been one of the most widely known mystics of our time. After his death in January 1990, suddenly his media coverage seems to rise again. An investigation in numbers…

Pull Requests kicked around and asked apart, questions flinged at a presenter after the “thank you” slide, that judgmental moment of silence after an ill-placed question. Does decency have a place in tech? A question I asked myself 3 years ago, and finally some answers.

A post hyperfocussing only on the element of approach, it’s impact and implications. Which role does approach play in day-to-day lifes? What significance does it have, and what difference does it make?

Highlights of recent config changes to my code editor, my text vehicle, my passion project: emacs.

Getting by Tai Chi knowledge is not so easy. Most teachers (of the far east) are stingy with their knowledge. But it is a dying martial art, so the knowledge is slowly forgotten. And not everybody has such amount of time to learn. So let me share the best learning resources I know.

Slowly slipping into my thirties I’m talking more to people about marriage and dating. What is there to say about the underlying issue of love and romance, when time runs out and it’s time to mingle?

About the question whether doing a task is only about getting it done, and why there is no such thing as no progress.

Generally the topic of death is largely invisible in our society. Dead people are transported off of hospitals only during the night, millions are spend on artificial teeth every year and old people take medication during family gatherings to temporarily overshadow the effect of “old people diseases” like Alzheimer’s. Decay in general pains us and is masked out.

But even though we try to avoid death itself and we generally don’t wish it on anybody, which useful things can we draw from considering death?