Sitemap - 2025 - reflections from a nerd
Tech Is Accelerating—Society Is Slipping
The Original Hallucinator: Why Humans Out-Imagine AI
Quantum Spielerei 15: The Wall That Sometimes Isn’t — Tunneling
The Fragility Paradox: How Comfort Made Us Soft
Quantum Spielerei 14: Space Isn’t a Stage, It’s the Cast
How Slow Minds in Fast Times Break Societies
Quantum Spielerei 13: Black-Hole Drums, Gravitational Waves, and the Underground Ear
After God’s Exit: How the Humanities Dropped the Compass
After God’s Exit: How the Humanities Dropped the Compass - Deep Dive
Degrees Without Deliverables: The Hidden Bill Societies Are Paying
Degrees Without Deliverables: The Hidden Bill Societies Are Paying - Deep Dive
Transfers vs. Flywheels: East Germany and Poland’s Divergent Post-1989 Paths - Deep Dive
Why Poland Feels Up and East Germany Feels Overruled
Quantum Spielerei 12: Superposition — And, Not Or
Democracy’s Talent Problem: Why We Keep Hiring the Same People for a Very Different Job
The Politician Factory: How Western Democracies Select Performers, Not Builders - Deep Dive
Quantum Spielerei 11: Quantum Computers, Your Laptop on Jazz Hands 🤹♂️🧪
Woke Floats, Tech Sinks: The New Policy Asymmetry -Deep Dive
Woke Floats, Tech Sinks: The New Policy Asymmetry
Quantum Spielerei 10: Stealth vs. Spooky — When Quantum Radar Turns On the Lights
The 50-Cent Dollar/Euro: How Public Spending Loses Half Its Value Before It Hits the Ground
Quantum Spielerei 9: Glow Motion: The Quantum Dot Dance Party in Your Lamp
Truth Was Never Yours to Begin With
Quantum Spielerei 8: Entanglement—The Universe’s Long-Distance Relationship
Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow—Why the Humanities Are Slamming the Brakes on Technology
Moral Theories Are Great… Until You Need One That Actually Works
Quantum Spielerei 7: Einstein—Reluctant Dice-Player, Accidental Quantum King
Heroes, Not Passengers: A Bold Blueprint to Re-Spark Student Motivation
Quantum Spielerei 6: The Cosmic Hackathon That Keeps Shipping Updates
Turning Passengers into Pilots: Lessons from 60 Years of Workplace Data - deep dive
Turning Passengers into Pilots: Lessons from 60 Years of Workplace Data
Quantum Spielerei 5: Nobody Knows What We’re Doing—And That’s Fine
The Strongman Detox Plan: Clearing Clutter Without Losing the Culture
Quantum Spielerei 4: Alpen Illusion
Paperwork: Humanity’s Funniest Apocalypse
Quantum Spielerei 3: Truth on Back-Order
Red Tape vs. Neural Nets: Why Bureaucracy Keeps Losing the AI War
Red Tape vs. Neural Nets: Why Bureaucracy Keeps Losing the AI War - Deep Dive
Quantum Spielerei 2 - Reality, Roasted
“Diversity™ – When Difference Becomes Dogma”
“Diversity™ – When Difference Becomes Dogma” - Deep Dive
Monopoly Mindset vs. Modular World: A Slow-Motion Train Wreck
From Paradoxes in Education to Public Sector Fatalism
How to Avoid a Civilization Crash: The Art of Listening to the Universe
When “Traditional is the New Progressive” is Just Old Wine in a Cracked Flask
New Century, Old Systems: Why Democracy Struggles in the 21st Century
Chasing Unicorns: The Futility of a ‘Universal’ Moral Code
Regulation Nation: How Rules Backfire and Break Things
The Real World Is Uncertain—So Why Do Schools Teach the Opposite?
The Autocracy Factor: Why Russia and China Make Us Rethink Global Trade
Refusing to Evolve: How Static Institutions Fuel Extreme Voter Reactions
Leave No One Behind (Except… Well, You Know Who)
Where Redistribution Falls Short: A German Reunification Story - the Nerd's Perspective
Where Redistribution Falls Short: A German Reunification Story - revisited
Where Redistribution Falls Short: A German Reunification Story
Top-Down Culture Wars: Why They Fail
Why Europe Needs to Get Its Ducks in a Row—And Fast
Ursula von der Leyen, the Big Swinging Duck of EU AI
Crime and Punishment in the 21st Century: A Lost Concept?
The Myth of Objectivity: Why We Need to Talk About Judicial Bias
AI: The Battering Ram at the Gates of Old Professions?
The West’s Greatest Threat: How Outdated Bureaucracy Is Holding Us Back
In Defense of Less Moderation: Why Simpler Rules Beat Bloated List
Moderation Nation: Is AI Killing Intellectual Diversity?
Beyond the Facts: How State Education Must Evolve in the Information Age
When Corporations Grow Up and Democracies Stay in Diapers
Why Tearing Down Democracy Won’t Fix It: A Dialectic for the 21st Century
We’ll Never Know the Full Truth—But That’s OK
When ‘All Perspectives’ Go Too Far: The Postmodern Rabbit Hole
Between Bureaucracy and Billionaires: Navigating the Great Government-Business Divide
Europe’s “Low Mediocrity” Meets a High-Speed World: Why Incrementalism May No Longer Cut It
Stop Drowning in Paperwork: Real Ways to Tackle Western Poverty