Questions I can’t answer (yet)
What does it mean to be a ‘good’ person? Is it merely the absence of being ‘bad’? Is it to offer yourself to the world? Is it to fix every mistake? Is it to focus…
Author: Kobe van Reppelen
The Themis Files
I’m blown away. Thanks to Jonas for the tip. The Themis Files, consisting of three books, Sleeping Giants, Waking Gods and Only Human, is a fascinating debut by Sylvain Neuvel. I just had to get…
My talk with Vitalik Buterin
Yesterday, I had the honor and pleasure to talk to Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum. I made a long post on Reddit explaining how this came to be, plus an overview of the questions, and…
My Big Five Personality Test
I just finished the understandmyself.com test. None of the results surprise me. On the contrary, I feel that my lowest/highest score results are quite familiar to me, and I’ve been thinking about them a lot….
Blamma! Blamma!’s Zsa Zsa is wonderful. But I can’t find the lyrics. Can you help me find it?
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AraCon from a volunteer’s perspective
As some of you might know, I volunteered (first time!) at Aracon One, Aragon’s first major conference. I’ll keep this short, as I’m still recovering from a whole week in Berlin – beer, kebab, a…
Here’s my short biography + letter of motivation
I am applying for the Cross-Disciplinary Strategies studies at die Universität für angewandte Kunst. I had to write a short biography and a letter of motivation and thought it’d be interesting to share it here as well. If my…
No More Jordan Peterson!
Just kidding. This is probably the best interview around. It’s a great introduction to his work, life and point of view.
An introduction to the importance of sleep
In case you’re open to good New Year’s resolutions. TL;DW at https://podcastnotes.org/2018/04/29/why-we-sleep/
Some questions for those of us that want to Become a Magician
I just finished reading an excellent essay by the girl (woman?) behind autotranslucence, called Becoming a Magician. In it, she writes about the people we look up to. The ones we want to surround ourselves…