Category: Think Thrice

  • In awe of God, a positive sense of distance

    God might be far away, meaning answers to prayer and messages from God are really, really rare. At least in the Western world at this time. And it is difficult to deal with that distance, it is something “unlivable” to put all ones hope into something that will not (or nearly not) come into experience […]

  • Second life of Second Acts

    In the recent article “Third way cont., up to the end” I said that it would be “the last to the “Second Acts” series of posts, canceling that project resp. leaving it to be “just some visits” while on my tour through Africa.”. This is no longer true … I realized in the time since […]

  • Lulled into the system

    Being awake means being aware of your situation. The more you are awake, the more you realize about your situation. If you are fully awake, you are able to realize and judge your situation from an external position (“on a meta level”). With this in mind I need to say, I have long been not […]

  • On granting access to my mind

    I thought about what I would do if I really, really care about somebody and take somebody seriously. Like, say, in a partnership. I think the deepest expression of that, for me, would be something most other people will think is quite strange: shared information management. The most important part of my thinking is externalized […]

  • Third way cont., up to the end

    There have been numerous posts in my blog about the “Third Way”. This is probably the last, about the “end of the Third Way” and the lifestyle that’s enabled when arriving there. It is also, most astonishing, the last to the “Second Acts” series of posts, canceling that project resp. leaving it to be “just […]

  • Dijkstra on bloatware

    I spent the day tracing some really bad bugs. Here are some good 1972 quotes from Dijkstra, who recognized the danger of unmanaged software complexity that early. “Finally, although the subject is not a pleasant one, I must mention PL/1, a programming language for which the defining documentation is of a frightening size and complexity. […]

  • Rational and non-rational approach to life

    Most people are mainly non-rational (emphasis on emotion, beauty, fun, comfort, music, art), while I am one of the very few that are mainly rational (emphasis on truth, logic, adequateness, technology, function). This leaves us with very few common ground to talk about and so is a main communication barrier. However, I must admit that […]