Category: Think Thrice

  • Don't fight the circumstances – change them

    From a practical, motivational and experience-based perspective, it is useless to try to do something that is not favoured by the current circumstances, if that activity is something regular or habitual or something that requires many contributions over time (as part-time work). Such attempts will all fail eventually, and up to that point of time, […]

  • Have wrath, just don't do evil

    Have wrath, just don’t do evil: this seems to be the Biblical idea about how to deal with people if some tougher mode is required: if it is required, use the tougher mode (have wrath). There is no meaning in whimsy-flimsy behavior if only strength and tough, honest words lead to the goal. This phrase […]

  • Invention: The end of the text

    I have some ideas in mind how to structure content in a way that is more adequate for skimming. Long texts are simply not really navigable in the finer portions (only in chapters and subchapters), and that makes them unadequate for serving in a workplace for content (snippets of scientific work etc.) and as a […]

  • Implicit and explicit communication

    I got a new view on communication: non-verbal communication should be considered an asset. Something valuable. People say that 90% of messages are transported non-verbally, so we should see non-verbal communication as increasing the bandwidth of our communication  by a factor of 9! However, many people see the realm of non-verbal communication rather as a liability, […]

  • My Deepwater Horizon response

    Two or three days ago, I had an idea what to do to stop the flow of oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf. Just entered it into the public suggestion form that you can reach via deepwaterhorizonresponse.com: Suggestions. And as sort of a “yes I was (virtually) there” souvenir, here is the […]

  • The role of the law

    There are two possible roles that the law can fulfill: protecting the weak from being exploited, or protecting the exploitation of the weak. In the first case it works for the interests of the poor, in the second case for the interests of the rich. In the case of employment, trade unions successfully fought to […]

  • Absurd, interesting, anything: misc nerdy links

    In my collection of blog post drafts, a sediment of very short posts accumulated that only contained a link and a note. Too short to post, but combined, they make up a nerdy mixture from interesting to fanciful: How to improve cognition. Not by brain exercises, they say, “But there are other proven ways to […]