Moving the Blog to Substack
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Keep readingBecome fulfilled by Yourself – Don’t Rely on Others to Fulfill You
As you try to find comfort and love in everyone BUT yourself, your relationship become unstable, but loving yourself is probably the harder thing to do for most people. We are not taught to love ourselves, be fulfilled with ourselves, accept our mistakes and shortcomings, as our society and culture does not accept either.
Keep readingHaircut from the Past
Why aren’t hair saloons charging by time and hair length instead of gender?
Keep readingYour Life Experience shapes your Art, which becomes your Language
The more you paint, the more you write, the more you express yourself in any kind of form, the more your language expresses itself and opens up. It is healing in a way; sharing your being with the world.
Keep readingIs Today’s Life the Life of your Future?
What do you spend most of your time on each day? What is it that you are not enjoying? What is it that you would change?
Keep readingLegal Liability for Bad Code and Insecure Data Storage
Legal liability for the software sold and private information stored has to be a cornerstone in the digital age, promoting secure software and secure storage of personal information for the end-user.
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Meta Learning while playing: Mini Motorways
As an extremely minimalistic simulation, Mini Motorways gives you a basic understanding and appreciation for city planning, and lets you learn important skills that are valuable far beyond the realm of managing traffic, making you think outside of the box the creators of the game have put you in.
Keep readingHow Bitcoin’s growing Energy Consumption is good for the Planet
Bitcoin mining uses a lot of energy, but its consumption is rarely put into context. Bitcoin mining is not primarily about processing payments, but securing a decentralized network, allowing uncensorable transactions worldwide.
Keep readingWhy Elon Musk and Tesla turned on Bitcoin
What was seen as curiosity and enthusiasm about how Bitcoin is improving the world for billions of people unbanked and living in authoritarian countries, turned out to be a purely calculated business decision, exactly the opposite of what Elon Musk stands for.
Keep readingWhy Bitcoin is El Salvador ‘s new National Currency
El Salvador is the first country making Bitcoin its national currency, which has broad implications for the entire region of South America and beyond.
Keep reading20 More Policy Proposals
Make Profit Margin’s Accessible to Consumers – Free Birth Control/Condoms/Feminine Hygiene Products – End the Drug War and legalize Psychedelics – Cheap Government-Produced Generics for drugs after patent expiration – Publicly Disclose everyone’s Income – […]
Keep readingAdjust Fines and Penalties to Income Level and Net-Worth
Fines exist to disincentivize harmful behavior and minimize overall harm done to our societies. Fines have been around for as long as humans have socialized, but nobody anticipated that a small group of extremely wealthy corporations and individuals could one day stand above the rules of our society and completely discard any fines brought before them.
Keep readingEstablish a Term Limit for Government Positions
Each generation has new ideas and issues approaching them in their future, therefore each generation requires fresh minds that can bring society forwards in way that have not been perceived yet. But for those minds to come forwards and enhance society, they need to be voted into office in the first place.
Keep readingCitizens’ Choice in Tax Allocation
The easiest way to directly affect change is by voting with our wallet; when we buy something at a store or when we decide not to. It is the most powerful tool each of us has in changing the world in the way we want it to. The only financial aspect in which this choice is still missing is in the allocation of taxes.
Keep readingHigher Taxation on Extreme Income and Extreme Wealth
With people making millions or billions in income each year, more than the income of most people working their entire life and more than they could ever consciously spend, a new tax bracket for extreme wealth has to be established.
Keep readingEliminate Tax Loopholes and Off-Shore Safe Havens
For many decades multinational corporations and wealthy individuals have been using international taxation systems to their advantage to lower their taxes to near 0%. Subsidiaries in the Netherlands, Ireland, and Luxembourg are common for multinational corporations, while small island countries like the Bahamas or Cayman Islands hold billions in untaxed income.
Keep readingTotal Income Transparency for all Politicians
As elected politicians are representing their country’s citizens and are employed by them, it is crucial that any income that could interfere with their political orientation has to be made transparent and any kind of lobbyism jobs and direct donations banned.
Keep readingFishing Net Tracking to reduce Ocean Pollution
Discarded fishing nets (also known as ghost nets) and fishing equipment are a substantial contributor in polluting the oceans. Some studies and reports suggest that they are the biggest contributor of waste in the oceans.
Keep readingAll Religions are the same and none of them are inherently violent
In the broad context, religions made humanity more civilized and peaceful, although it is sometimes hard to imagine this at our current day in age.
Keep readingLife as a Videogame
While on the topic of videogames, it is also incredibly useful to think of your life as a videogame. It’s a nice exercise with which you can evaluate your life and set the directions you want to skill your “human character” in.
Keep readingMeta Learning from Videogames
These skills are something you don’t notice developing until you become aware of them in your daily life. The skills you develop in-game are something your brain understands on a meta level and applies them wherever they are useful.
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The Internet of Money
On the internet, we want to pay instantly, cross currencies, to the other side of the planet. Something today’s systems are not built for. But Bitcoin brings innovation to disrupt today’s monetary systems.
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Bentinho Massaro’s “Relationship Fallacy” Fallacy
In his recent podcast, Bentinho Massaro argues that relationships, as we know them, may contradict the love, mutual respect, and generosity by which they’re inspired.
His “Relationship Fallacy” does not seem thought through though, as he is contradicting himself throughout the podcast. While his perspective is valuable to listen to, I have some concerns about it that he does either not seem to put too much attention on or is not aware of.
Keep readingA Worldwide Social Credit System
A social credit system is a digital extension of our culture and law. But it should not be used as an excuse for governments to collect more data about citizens or censor them, but serve them instead.
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Before Basic Income
Not having to worry about financial issues is a huge step towards a happy and fulfilling life, yet the requirements for basic income are too huge to be implemented within just a few years; massive funding and therefore higher taxes on the top 1% and a solution for corporations funneling billions through tax havens. We need to keep an eye on implementing the important finding of basic income research while paving a way towards it.
Keep readingRenewables and Electric Cars are not Sustainable
Sustainability has way more facets to it than many realize; buying an electric car is not sustainable and neither are solar cells or wind turbines. To understand sustainability, we have to look at the entire lifecycle of a product and not just its most convenient aspect.
Keep readingSocial Media is improving the Online Landscape
With all the shit social media sites are getting for hate speech and fake news on their sites, you have to give them credit where credit is due.
Keep readingThe Vaccine; the Holy Grail
The Vaccine as the Holy Grail; for politicians all across the world, who, despite the publicly available information and strategies on how to deal with a pandemic, decided to implements only a few policies and experiment with others.
Keep readingWearing a Mask is a Litmus Test for Collective Responsibility
Wearing a mask in public is an easy and convenient task. Stopping people from getting infected or spreading the virus and helping people at high risk is morally the right thing to do.
A person not willing to wear a mask for the collective good is selfish and irresponsible. It does not matter how deadly the virus is; it is about the mentality.
Keep readingA Life on Our Planet
The most challenging point that is not being mentioned too often is that we have to reach net-zero emissions by 2100 to stabilize the climate. We have to go net-negative to reverse the damages already done by then. We can’t merely rely on others to do the first step, and maybe in a decade or two, follow their lead. Each of us has an individual and collective responsibility to do their best.
Keep readingThe Human Life Cycle
We are interconnected with nature, earth, and the universe; everything we consume influences us. The food we eat becomes us. Ideas and experiences shape our minds and personality. The habits and things we do daily develop our skills and understanding of the world. Our “self” is fluid, never static. Our minds and bodies change every day in subtle forms until we become entirely different individuals in just a few months or years.
Keep readingThe Empires Crumble
The United States, The United Kingdom, Europe. They have become synonyms for opportunity, freedom, growth, and wealth. People see in them the future and try to replicate them or live there someday. But the marketing from decades and centuries of slavery, oppression, and imperialism is starting to crumble.
Keep readingSocial media won’t steal your attention if you don’t let it
A system in which your attention and behavioral changes are the product, and a broken advertisement model promoting eco-chambers and radicalization. Social media has a lot of issues to overcome, but we can already see progress and a bright future moving towards us.
Keep readingVZ Goliath [Book Release]
VZ Goliath: a 160-page dystopian, cyberpunk, Sci-Fi novel. Now available on Amazon and my website.
Keep readingGiving up Friendships
Although we know and feel how relationships have a positive effect on us, learning how to pick the right ones and develop them is only taught on a very basic level in society and culture.
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Open Perspectives
Content: Introduction, Realizations of the US Protests, Corona Policies, Fake News, The Culture War
Keep readingLizards on Mars [Short Story]
The lizard society has been controlling humanity for centuries, but after the inevitable happens, the lizards have to emerge as the dominant species to ensure the survival of every life on the planet.
We follow the lives of several humans and lizards along the newly emerging society.
[Short Story, 44 pages, 15372 words]
Keep readingNo Country for Old People [Short Story]
In a society where the old and replacable get euthanized, an old man has to find and understand his inner self to find his peace.
[Short Story, 17 pages, 5274 words]
Keep readingUnfiltered Mask [Short Story]
Humanity has destroyed its planet and become infertile. Living in unhygienic complexes under an authoritarian government, a pandemic would bring an end to the doomed civilization.
[Short Story, 35 pages, 11795 words]
Keep readingStory of an Artist [Short Story]
A boy and his passion, separated but united in the end.
[Short Story, 10 pages, 3661 words]
Keep readingEnd of an Era [Short Story]
As the last of her kind, a young woman is searching for meaning in the vastness of space.
[Short Story, 6 pages, 1495 Words]
Keep readingOperation Mole [Short Story]
A veteran has to make the first move in escaping his own government.
[Short Story, 6 pages, 1672 Words]
Keep readingBroken Feathers [Short Story]
In mystical search for my old friend, I’ve found way more than just him.
[Short Story, 7 pages, 1941 Words]
Keep readingHeartburn [Short Story]
An old man is unable to adapt to the changing world around him and takes the easy way out.
[Short Story, 9 pages, 2579 Words]
Keep readingRed Bloom [Short Story]
A pregnant woman is reflecting on her decision to give birth.
[Short Story, 5 pages, 1141 Words]
Keep readingBlack Sun [Short Story]
On a lava planet in the outer systems, a father has to choose the priorities in his life.
[Short Story, 7 pages, 2234 Words]
Keep readingThe Blessing [Short Story]
A boy on summer holidays makes friends with beings living in the darkness.
[Short Story, 15 pages, 4313 Words]
Keep readingFallen Memories [Short Story]
An Android gains consciousness and tries to find its place in the universe.
[Short Story, 28 pages, 8535 Words]
Keep readingA Story of Monks [Short Story]
A monastery high up in the mountains has to face the change coming from the lands below.
[Short Story, 8 pages, 2700 words]
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