Civic Action and Responsibilities A key issue of all the failing institutions is that of personal failure. If the values … More
Month: December 2020
Technology and Civil Society – Part 4: A rotten tree of Knowledge
A rotten tree of knowledge The knowledge problem The discussions in the previous sections raise the question how to shed … More
Technology and Civil Society – Part 3: Politics and Mobs
Politics and the Mob When Politics discovers online communities The next fascinating thing is how politicians are using the new … More
Technology and Civil Society – Part 2: Social Media and Radicalization
Insanity and Radicalization: Social Media in action Social Media Origins and Development When you look at how social media started. … More
Technology and Civil Society – Part 1: Information, Conspiracy and Insanity
Information, Conspiracy, and Insanity Information Overload It goes without saying that our information society is producing an amount of information … More
What is Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) in the context of geopolitics?
The modern monetary theory (MMT) combined with the excessive money printing and low interest rate policy of the US Federal … More
The Rise of Venture Capital 2.0 — Why Venture Capital is an asset class to stay
Venture capital is on the rise. The number of Venture Capital GPs is rising, the total assets under management in … More
Why bank share buybacks are a good thing
This is a response to an article and discussions on FT found here. Public debate focuses again on how bad share … More
Why BitCoin will not be a global reserve currency
With BitCoin again reaching 20.000 USD, the big dream of it becoming the de facto standard global reserve currencies of … More
Consumer SaaS prices to high — Thoughts
I recently had a great time translating my contracts and bank account data into a fully fledged P&L of my … More