Writing on things that move me
All my longer thoughts on programming, technology, philosophy and more. Newest first.
2026
- Wisdom is your Lover
Your wisdom is an intimate model of reality you curated all your life. Why it should not be pushed onto everybody and how to share it so the right people can find it.
- Ambient Poetry
How I turned one of my symbolic poems into a spoken-word soundscape with AI, and why it still feels like my own work.
- Aims, Not Goals
Acceptance, direction and why I try to live by aims instead of fixed goals. The effort stays, it just gets less brittle and more present.
- Not the OM You Think
About altered states, rituals and why breath, cold, rhythm, sexuality and other strong practices only transform you when there is a solid structure around them. Otherwise it is just entertainment.
- Rules, Space and Growth
Why yoga practice needs rules and some structure. Not as dogma, more as a container that gives enough safety and space to explore and grow.
- Time Machines Made of Paper
Analog photography, information fasting and physical things as anchors for memory, in a world where almost everything became data.
2025
- Structured Trust Assurance
Security in digital assets is mostly about how trust is organized around the moment someone signs. A tool I am building to turn real business processes into an explicit trust model.
- Guesswork and the Path Ahead: Why Planning Matters
A plan in IT is mostly a structured guess. Predictive vs adaptive planning, when which one fits, and why hybrid approaches like the Unified Process often work best.
- AI Copilot in VS Code: Tips for Using Claude Sonnet 4 Effectively
I love and fear AI coding assistants at the same time. Six habits that help me use Claude Sonnet 4 in VS Code without losing my own coding skills.
- AI-Powered DEX Arbitrage Bots
An experiment with a transformer-based arbitrage bot for DEX pools. It worked surprisingly well on V2 pools, and on V3 a rule-based approach did the same job. Not everything is a nail.
- The Social Shadow
People have a shadow, the parts of themselves they prefer not to see. Societies have one too. Some thoughts on Jung, projection and what the AfD in East Germany might tell us about it.
- Lessons From My Startup Journey
What 15 years of starting tech startups taught me. Most of them failed, but each one left something: about money, motivation, patience and building things that last.