Category Society

The user manual for my blog: why and how I write (and how to read my texts)

So far my most sophisticated attempt to save the world in a breeze. But when I read my finished text, I realized that I’m actually trying to incite a global neo-hippie sex orgy using somewhat dubious arguments based on the Red Queen’s hypothesis,...

How game theory can explain the current explosion of hate and violence in our world

In a world getting more absurd every day, isn‘t it foolish to remain reasonable?

The story of our „super grandma“ Yvette (and why planning a good life cannot possibly work)

Musings on luxury, self driving cars and kindness

Yes, let‘s talk about menstruation - and feminism

A mathematical explanation for the dire state of society

Our expulsion from paradise: a reconstruction attempt (Part 4)

Our expulsion from paradise: a reconstruction attempt (Part 3)

And how the insights can be used to save the planet (Part 3: how women regained power)

And how the insights can be used to save the planet (Part 2: how women lost power)

And how the insights can be used to save the planet (Part 1: the color green, décolletages, dowry)

Musings about evil, luxury and happiness

Are there ideas so dangerous that we should never even think about them?

How our fears to lose hope have imprisoned us

It will look beautiful on your hand

Part 2: how we lost compassion - a different short history of humankind

Part 1: compassion vs moral

Fake content is maybe not a problem but the solution

To their great misfortune they did not know themselves well enough

And start using your own mind now! - A rant in four acts.

Moral is a symptom and not the solution, part 2

Moral is a symptom and not the solution

Can machines make art?

We don’t need to be afraid of A.I. if we are ready for radical change.

Why we are heading in this direction today and what can we do to avoid such dire fate?

Mein Weg aus der Depression

Why the world is not getting safer if technology makes trusting humans obsolete.

Why is democracy historically so successful?

Something to think about...

Many years ago I spent a few months sailing from island to island in the south pacific. I will never forget what happened on an island of Tarawa when we came back shopping large amounts of food for the next few weeks on sea.

A little game project (great for a family afternoon on a rainy Sunday)

It happened on a warm summer day somewhere near Zurich