16 Oct, 2024
Recently, I noticed two interesting articles that seemingly contradict each other: (1) China tells schoolteachers to hand in their passports (FT, 6 Oct 2024), and (2) Scale of Chinese Spying Overwhelms Western Governments (WSJ, 14 Oct 2024). The contradiction is about gathering knowledge. Does China trust its spies more than public information from the Financial...
13 Sep, 2024
Als ervaringsdeskundige (2013-14) ben ik van mening dat je niet kunt genezen van een burn-out. In principe zie je niets aan die mensen tenzij jouw gedrag hen provoceert. Boosheid is dan een van de gevolgen. Helaas heb ik dat zelf ook meegemaakt bij een soort van ramptoerisme tijdens mijn burn-out. De huidige terugval van Pieter Omtzigt zag ik daarom al lang geleden...
12 Sep, 2024
Introduction LO: The article below is an example of why China is curtailing its distribution of data-info to foreign governments and markets. For example: see the “too sensitive” comment in the 6th paragraph of the Economist article below. The article is also an example of the dangers of an absence of a dualism beween Knowledge and Power. In monism, everything is...
5 Sep, 2024
In yesterday's blog, Dreams, I wrote the following: "In my view, the soul is the linking pin between individual and universal consciousness." That sentence bugged me for some reason, and has resulted in this new blog and new diagram. I suppose that the above classification is new to me. After some reflection, it (still) feels valid. This classification also allows...
22 Aug, 2024
Introduction LO: China is well-known for its trade-off between (its promise of) economic progress and (the lack of individual) freedom (eg, AEA-2018, HBR-2015). However, that trade-off has been deteriorating ever since its disastrous zero-Covid policy. Unemployment issues have been worsening due to China’s political targeting of its entrepreneurs (eg, disappearance,...
30 Oct, 2023
My title is a translation of a Dutch saying (eg, Dutch examples). This saying was new to me and caught my immediate attention. Once you start thinking about it then it indeed seems true. Feel free to change the word love by the word attention. I prefer the word love though. The Nobel-winning English polymath Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) wrote about...
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