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Some books I read in 2021

Another year of the pandemic. I thought I’d wrap up by briefly reviewing some books I’ve read during the year. Friedrich Nietzsche – The Birth of Tragedy. Despite this being probably Nietzsche’s earliest famous book, I somehow never managed to get a foothold in it previously. Here he formulates his early philosophy in terms of […]

Posted 04 January 2022 † Johan § Life § Philosophy ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Covid-19 and time

I can now conclusively answer the question raised at the end of my blog post from December 2019: the 2020s are not a decade of orderly peace. What a strange year. But weren’t years always strange? Time passes not only quantitatively but also qualitatively. A year spent with Covid-19 seems to have passed differently from […]

Posted 12 May 2021 † Johan § Bioinformatics § Computer science § Life § Philosophy § Software development ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Covid-19

It seems clear by now that Covid-19 is one of the great crises of our time, more so than the financial crisis of 2008, judging by the size of the measures announced and already taken by various countries and by the impact on human lives. In Japan I have been following live data from Toyo […]

Posted 13 May 2020 † Johan § Life ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: