I have missed writing (my last post was at the beginning of September). Well writing publicly. I have started to keep a journal which takes a bit of time every day. I have also been ridiculously busy with both existing and new investments as well as several projects, such as finally wrapping up work on my book The World After Capital. But I have a lot of thoughts rattling around my brain and I find that only writing has the power to help sort through them.

So here are some of the topics I plan to write about in the coming days and weeks

History and the individual: watching Dune and Foundation but also Babylon Berlin some time ago has really got me wanting to dig deeper into the relationship between individuals and history. This is of course related to the topic of free will, that I have written about previously.

Culture: having grown up in one culture (Germany) and mostly living in a different one now (US) I have been struck by how much of what one might easily mistake for human nature is really culture at work. Related are questions around assimilation versus multiculturalism, which are often held out as the only two possibilities but both of which strike me as flawed in different ways.

Kindness: I had missed Ted Lasso (but binge watched the first season the other day) but had been trying for more kindness for some time now. While its effect are obviously exaggerated on the show I can attest to its overall power.

Books, shows and movies I have read/watched.

I am open to suggestions for other topics and also want to resume some of the occasional series I had started previously, such as the one on consistency.

I have missed writing (my last post was at the beginning of September). Well writing publicly. I have started to keep a journal which takes a bit of time every day. I have also been ridiculously busy with both existing and new investments as well as several projects, such as finally wrapping up work on my book The World After Capital. But I have a lot of thoughts rattling around my brain and I find that only writing has the power to help sort through them.

So here are some of the topics I plan to write about in the coming days and weeks

History and the individual: watching Dune and Foundation but also Babylon Berlin some time ago has really got me wanting to dig deeper into the relationship between individuals and history. This is of course related to the topic of free will, that I have written about previously.

Culture: having grown up in one culture (Germany) and mostly living in a different one now (US) I have been struck by how much of what one might easily mistake for human nature is really culture at work. Related are questions around assimilation versus multiculturalism, which are often held out as the only two possibilities but both of which strike me as flawed in different ways.

Kindness: I had missed Ted Lasso (but binge watched the first season the other day) but had been trying for more kindness for some time now. While its effect are obviously exaggerated on the show I can attest to its overall power.

Books, shows and movies I have read/watched.

I am open to suggestions for other topics and also want to resume some of the occasional series I had started previously, such as the one on consistency.