Amor fati. – Friedrich Nietzsche I came across this quote lately, when thinking about my own future. I have this trait to (over)think decisions or events that might or might not happen in the future. This is what sometimes keeps me lying in my bed without being able to fall asleep. And I believe, we …
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Weekly Learnings Week 46
Quote of the week I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan Weekly thoughts We often experience painful events in our lifes, but some are more painful …
Weekly Learnings – CW28
Quote of the week Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ~Marcus Aurelius Things I learned this week People get machine learning incredibly wrong It’s not that machines will take over our jobs. Machine learning is a way for computers to make use of …
On Jazz and Classical Music
In 2003 the 16-year old me went into a music store with his father. It had taken years of continuous persuasion but finally I had been convinced by my parents to start playing an instrument: electrical guitar. For me it was the begin of a musical journey: from hard rock to blues to funk; from …
Reflections on Victor Frankl’s meaning of life
On Friday, September 25, 1942 the 37-year old psychologist Victor Frankl was brought to the Nazi Ghetto Theresienstadt (Terezin in today’s Czech republic), along his wife and his parents. At this point Frankl was already a very well regarded doctor of psychology and philosophy. In his early career he already worked alongside with Sigmund Freud and Alfred …
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