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Passion as the key to motivation

I’ve wondered once and again why I have such a little level of motivation in my life, when comparing to others. It seems that I’m slowly getting to recognize the causes now. As, one cause seems to be: I did not allow me to be passionate about anything.

Why that? As a rational thinker, my [...]

Please keep the toilet clean

Here are some funny images that I captured around 2008-05-01 with my small (and bad) mobile phone camera, from a disaster that took place in an abandoned basement toilet of my church at that time. After the waste water conduit had got stuck and people in the first floor, unaware of it, kept shitting.

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Different definitions of "basic needs"

I’m right now in the “lucky” situation of getting paid by a customer, for some programming I did for them in the last months and weeks. The invoice is slightly overdue, but at least the money is coming (it’s needed over here …). In my experience as a year-long self-employed, it’s not clear if and [...]

Self-education, not self-discipline

Here’s a line of thought that caught me and accompanied me through the last days.

I always wondered what it practically means that “God sanctifies his people”. I did not experience to be subject to any curriculum that would exhibit itself in the situations that occur in my life (even worse, I was successful in [...]

Women's bonus

There’s currently a very funny thing happening in my favourite 4×4 truck forum. A young woman wants to buy herself a Magirus Mercur 4×4 truck, to live in it. She asked the forum for tips how to check the vehicle and how to drive home, and got a deluge of tips, hints, help, private phone [...]

Market, you're damn stupid!

Regarding my job, I’ve a strong feeling that prohibits me from doing work that deems senseless to me. (It’s not that I don’t need to do such things just for the money, but it’s a torture.)

The problem is, now, that mine and the market’s opinions what is meaningful to do deviate widely. It’s easy [...]

An old draft for an expedition vehicle …

What to do to files that are too good to throw away, and to useless to keep them in their place? Blog them! Here’s a image manipulation draft that I did to a Magirus Mercur of a friend, and to a workshop box body (that I wanted to buy originally, before getting the freezer box [...]

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