reflections from a nerd

Faustian Foreign Policy: Are Global Powers Selling Out the Future?

Geopolitics: From Short-Termism to Transactionalism

Jan 10 • dirk

December 2025

Tech Is Accelerating—Society Is Slipping

Thesis Technology is accelerating faster than our meaning-making and governing institutions can absorb, and the resulting mismatch is pushing Western…

Dec 24, 2025 • dirk

November 2025

The Original Hallucinator: Why Humans Out-Imagine AI

Humans like to imagine themselves as rational creatures, strolling around with 86 billion neurons and a calm, sober inner narrator.

Nov 16, 2025 • dirk

October 2025

Quantum Spielerei 15: The Wall That Sometimes Isn’t — Tunneling

Take a marble and a brick wall.

Oct 10, 2025 • dirk

The Fragility Paradox: How Comfort Made Us Soft

The Age of Ease: Prosperity, Fragility, and the Human Spirit

Oct 3, 2025 • dirk

September 2025

Quantum Spielerei 14: Space Isn’t a Stage, It’s the Cast

Space Isn’t a Stage, It’s the Cast

Sep 27, 2025 • dirk

How Slow Minds in Fast Times Break Societies

Technology’s Rapid Pace vs.

Sep 21, 2025 • dirk

Quantum Spielerei 13: Black-Hole Drums, Gravitational Waves, and the Underground Ear

Quantum Spielerei:

Sep 15, 2025 • dirk

After God’s Exit: How the Humanities Dropped the Compass

A Table, Not a Throne: Rebuilding Shared Rules for a Post-Religious Age

Sep 12, 2025 • dirk

After God’s Exit: How the Humanities Dropped the Compass - Deep Dive

A Table, Not a Throne: Rebuilding Shared Rules for a Post-Religious Age

Sep 12, 2025 • dirk

Degrees Without Deliverables: The Hidden Bill Societies Are Paying

Prefer the Deep Dive?

Sep 11, 2025 • dirk

Degrees Without Deliverables: The Hidden Bill Societies Are Paying - Deep Dive

TL;DR - go to the short version

Sep 11, 2025 • dirk