Musings

A Picture Lies More Than a Thousand Words

The Threat of Fake Images and Videos in Our Dig­i­tal World In an era where visu­al media is omnipresent, the old proverb “A pic­ture is worth a thou­sand words” reminds us of the once-powerful impact of photography

Whom Do Humans Trust? An Interdisciplinary Dive into Trust Through Time and AI Challenges

In a world brim­ming with con­nec­tions — both real and vir­tu­al — trust remains the invis­i­ble glue hold­ing soci­eties togeth­er. From ancient tribes to mod­ern dig­i­tal net­works, humans have always nav­i­gat­ed the del­i­cate bal­ance of whom to

Next Level Business Model Innovation — The Decentralized Network GAIA‑X Could Become

Accord­ing to BCG, Busi­ness model inno­va­tion is the art of enhanc­ing advan­tage and value cre­ation by mak­ing simultaneous—and mutu­al­ly supportive—changes both to an orga­ni­za­tion’s value propo­si­tion to cus­tomers and its under­ly­ing oper­at­ing model. Pro­fes­sors Giro­tra and Netessine,

The Mindful Revolution

The Mindful Revolution — Entering The Next Evolutionary Level

I’m very happy to announce the pub­li­ca­tion of my first book: The Mind­ful Rev­o­lu­tion. It took me much longer than expect­ed — the orig­i­nal release date was Novem­ber 2019. How­ev­er, I real­ized that it’s quite a chal­lenge to

brain fodder - some DAO ideas to brainstorm on.

DAO — Brainstorming On Decentralised Autonomous Organisations

Ideas are cheap — most of them not worth a sec­ond thought. Approach­ing a short East­er break in times of Coro­n­avirus — what could be bet­ter than brain­storm­ing on some ideas lying around. That said, I invite you to col­lab­o­rate and com­ment on this brain fodder:

How to manage the Coronavirus COVID-19 crisis

SARS-CoV‑2 — How to manage the Coronavirus Crisis

Com­plex sys­tems, cor­po­ra­tions, economies, organ­isms, or ecosys­tems, tend to become ever more com­plex. Due to a mul­ti­tude of depen­den­cies, com­pe­ti­tion, rela­tion­ships, and other types of inter­ac­tions between their parts, and dis­tinct prop­er­ties, s.a. non­lin­ear­i­ty, emer­gence, spon­ta­neous order,

Introducing Connex Coin – Germany's First Real Estate Investment Token

Connex Coin – Germany’s First Real Estate Investment Token

With our team at RAAY RE, we proud­ly present Con­nex Coin — the first real estate invest­ment token that qual­i­fies as an invest­ment accord­ing to Ger­man and EU law. Con­nex Coin is the appro­pri­ate invest­ment option for

The Humanitarian Blockchain - Distributed Ledger Technology For Good

The Humanitarian Blockchain — DLT Applications For Social Good

With my com­pa­ny Datarel­la we have spe­cial­ized in Blockchain tech­nol­o­gy. Ini­tial­ly, we had start­ed with data sci­ence and data ana­lyt­ics stuff, but moved on to Blockchain in 2015, when Ethereum was launched, the first dis­trib­uted protocol

How to choose a healthy diet

On Healthy Eating — How To Choose A Sustainable Diet

Since nutri­tion is an essen­tial part of our REWIRE upgrade pro­gram, I‘m often asked whether there is a sim­ple way to eat com­plete­ly. health­ily. My answer: yes, there is a way to opti­mize your food intake — at

Hiding vulnerability behind an armoured truck

Vulnerability Is Power — Remove Your Armour

Glob­al defense spend­ing is high­er than ever, with USD 1.822bn, or 2.1% of glob­al GDP. With over 200 mil­lion sold SUVs, the share of big­ger and heav­ier cars has reached its all-time high rep­re­sent­ing 40% of

10 Practices That Make Sense

12 Daily Habits That Always Make Sense

What con­nects suc­cess­ful people? 

Michael Reuter - How to communicate in a non-violent way

Non-Violent Communication Improves Relationships

2019 was a year with­out a New Year’s res­o­lu­tion for me. I can­not tell whether that made any dif­fer­ence, for good or bad. How­ev­er, I was inclined to give it a try for 2020 — which, at least, marks a new decade.

GOOD READS

The Mind­ful Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

Die Acht­same Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

What‘s our prob­lem?, Tim Urban

Rebel Ideas — The Power of Diverse Think­ing, Matthew Syed

Die Macht unser­er Gene, Daniel Wallerstorfer

Jel­ly­fish Age Back­wards, Nick­las Brendborg

The Expec­ta­tion Effect, David Robson

Breathe, James Nestor

The Idea of the Brain, Matthew Cobb

The Great Men­tal Mod­els I, Shane Parrish

Sim­ple Rules, Don­ald Sull, Kath­leen M. Eisenhardt

Mit Igno­ran­ten sprechen, Peter Modler

The Secret Lan­guage of Cells, Jon Lieff

Evo­lu­tion of Desire: A Life of René Girard, Cyn­thia L. Haven

Grasp: The Sci­ence Trans­form­ing How We Learn, San­jay Sara

Rewire Your Brain , John B. Arden

The Wim Hof Method, Wim Hof

The Way of the Ice­man, Koen de Jong

Soft Wired — How The New Sci­ence of Brain Plas­tic­i­ty Can Change Your Life, Michael Merzenich

The Brain That Changes Itself, Nor­man Doidge

Lifes­pan, David Sinclair

Out­live — The Sci­ence and Art of Longevi­ty, Peter Attia

Younger You — Reduce Your Bioage And Live Longer, Kara N. Fitzgerald

What Does­n’t Kill Us, Scott Carney

Suc­cess­ful Aging, Daniel Levithin

Der Ernährungskom­pass, Bas Kast

The Way We Eat Now, Bee Wilson

Dein Gehirn weiss mehr als Du denkst, Niels Birbaumer

Denken: Wie das Gehirn Bewusst­sein schafft, Stanis­las Dehaene

Mind­ful­ness, Ellen J. Langer

100 Plus: How The Com­ing Age of Longevi­ty Will Change Every­thing, Sonia Arrison

Think­ing Like A Plant, Craig Holdredge

Das Geheime Wis­sen unser­er Zellen, Son­dra Barret

The Code of the Extra­or­di­nary Mind, Vishen Lakhiani

Altered Traits, Daniel Cole­man, Richard Davidson

The Brain’s Way Of Heal­ing, Nor­man Doidge

The Last Best Cure, Donna Jack­son Nakazawa

The Inner Game of Ten­nis, W. Tim­o­thy Gallway

Run­ning Lean, Ash Maurya

Sleep — Schlafen wie die Profis, Nick Littlehales

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