My previous post explains what this blog will be about. Contrary to my statement that I’ll refrain from writing about myself, I think readers of a blog want to know who the author is. So here’s a little bit about myself:
I never blogged before, but I did use services such as Clipmarks and Diigo to share and archive things I found worth sharing. I started this blog so I can share similar things, but with a surplus value.
I’m particularly interested in science and technology, its implications for the future & society as a whole. I studied moral philosophy and cultivated a special interest in philosophy, ethics and psychology among other topics. I wrote my master thesis on Scientology. I can’t refrain from asking skeptical questions, be it about the past, present or future. My ultimate goal lies in provoking thoughts and spreading curiosity.
I also love to read science fiction. Feel free to browse my collection of books at Goodreads. I divided it up in different bookshelves:
- all | my-library
- read | currently-reading | to-read | must-read-soon
- fiction | non-fiction
- e-book
- eclectic | educational
I love & live by the following quotes:
“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.”
- Bob Marley (1979), taken from a speech by Marcus Garvey in 1937:
“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.”
“Thinking must never submit itself,
neither to a dogma,
nor to a party,
nor to a passion,
nor to an interest,
nor to a preconceived idea,
nor to anything whatsoever,
except to the facts themselves,
because for it to submit to anything else would be the end of its existence.”
- Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)
