12.11.02022

Post photo: man with e-scooter | © Shutterstock

wave ride

Life begins with it, similar to when a pebble is thrown into water and immediately a wave begins to spread and this in a circle of 360 degrees.

Life takes its direction with the very first decision and every subsequent decision causes you to drift a little to the left or right on your wave crest. And as soon as the wave subsides and is no longer recognizable, that's it with your own life.

You can measure both the total distance covered (lifespan) and the number of angles that you have reached at the end (depth of life).

There are two important things to add to all of this, namely that you are not the only wave spreading at the same time and that it makes a big difference whether said pebble falls in still water or a choppy sea.

In any case, every wave ride should be very individual and your own influence is very limited. However, two lessons can be learned from this: firstly, it depends on how you decide right at the beginning and secondly on the number of decisions, which should also go in one direction if possible.

E-scooters and co.

Today we can once again read in the Heilbronner voice how in Heilbronn e-scooter driver harass us Heilbronn and even worse harm them. Anyone who walks in Heilbronn knows this problem. Approved, if not even encouraged, by the city leaders and the local council, the e-scooters, bicycles, motorbikes and other vehicles of all kinds race wildly along the sidewalks and through the pedestrian zones, cross the streets as they please and finally present theirs Rental objects everywhere where they can cause trouble to as many fellow citizens as possible.

Of course, the landlords of these supposed means of transport were released from any liability and motivated to unload even more of these environmentally harmful and human-damaging products in Heilbronn.

I was also met by one or the other e-sportsman on the sidewalk today. What annoys me are the red cycle paths right next to it, whose only function is to further restrict car traffic. I could still understand it if it's children, but they are mostly overweight pensioners for whom the red cycle paths are probably too fussy. And even the young-feeling “cyclists” prefer sidewalks, especially when they can slalom through groups of pedestrians — preferably in Heilbronn’s pedestrian zone.

That's why it's high time we held those responsible responsible. And since we're not in the US, we should also ask the producers and operators of these potential murder devices to pay up. We must also remind our local councils and senior management that they are also responsible for what they do or do not do.

conversations

Yesterday was marked by good discussions and a very pleasing development at the UEF. Despite the permanent intervention on the part of professional politics, the calls for a constitutional convention are getting louder, especially since in 2023 the first European Congress in The Hague can celebrate its 75th anniversary. This also marks the anniversary of the fact that professional politicians, starting from Winston Churchill to Ursula von der Leyen know how to prevent the European federal state with every conceivable means. And they even manage the art of letting the ordinary rabble celebrate them as convinced Europeans.

In any case, I was able to use my Zettelkasten with one, in my opinion successful UEF compromise proposal feed, which is why I made it public; who the tools hypotheses.is uses, who can also comment on the whole thing on site and also view the public comments.

In any case, there are now many such draft constitutions, including one that Javier Giner is heavily advertised, and for some time now that of the Spinelli Group. While these cries and demands for a federal state will continue to die down, as does mine, by the way — this weblog is full of them — it is very gratifying that every generation produces new European federalists to take up this good cause. And so maybe another 75 years will pass before the good will finally prevail.

Further conversations with comrades kept me up to date on what became of the German 2% promise and where the 100 billion euro special fund "trickles away". Which doesn't really surprise me. I already had this at the big-mouthed announcement of Olaf Scholz suspected in the Bundestag.

The real highlight, however, was the conversation with Detlef Stern, which this time didn't focus on our Zettelkasten. And so I spend the next few days preparing ideas for project management. I'm currently playing around with a few work packages and trying to figure out how to make it clear that you don't really juggle these until they come in the thousands — I've yet to decide if complexity is the right word.

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Tweet archive

Detlef Stern recently drew my attention to a tweet that probably circulated on Twitter a while ago. Unfortunately neither of us could find the source anymore. Nevertheless, there is a little bit of truth in this tweet, so that others will certainly be happy about it.

Time
How to stop time: kiss. How to travel in time: read. How to escape time: music. How to feel time: write. How to waste time: social media.

Anon

Since 2019, Amazon has been offering a notebook which has the following cover:

"How to stop time. kiss How to Travel in Time. Read. How to Escape Time. Music. How to Feel Time. Write. How to release time. breathe"

And so I assume for once that this can be taken as the source for the above quote. In any case, I think it's a well-done notebook title.