April 6. Into Paraguay.
An idea: economy of participation. Imagine a grocery store. Every person that participates in the store either as customer or as a worker gets a share of its stock. The more goods and services people buy, the more stock they get. The harder people work, the more stock they get. Hence, the store is owned …
April 2.
I know people. I know people that really love the idea of doing everything that can be done automatically automatically. They tell me about their dreams. Wouldn’t it be nice they say, wouldn’t it be nice to have a computer that does all that work for us? I mean, that’s what really keeps them warm. …
April 1. Cookies.
Gee, this guy must have a huge authority conflict. Since I am not reading this kind of feedback, I provide it myself here. It’s a common reaction. This guy is looking for something beyond authority because he is looking for something not yet infected by fear. And that something he hopes, that long thread of …
March 30. Time, being, freedom, etcetera.
Instead of this:
“Time/being/freedom/the soul/matter/consciousness itself is like dripping honey” I advice you to write this:
“I think about dripping honey and I feel good.”
Perhaps you like those abstraction. I reckon you know them much better than I do. I don’t like to talk about these words because it O feels like arguing …
March 25. Backups.
I have to make backups regularly. Backups are an interesting phenomenon. They can make you feel safe. I mean, right after you made a backup, right after you saved all your work on various usb-sticks, as well as on various servers on different continents so that your work will survive a partial nuclear winter, and …
March 21. The brewery in our head.
“Mi nombre es Cecilia si necessito cualcosa me llamas…” said the friendly waitress in the café where I write today. Writing in Buenos Aires is optimal. Firstly, it’s one of the worlds most literate cities, with an impressive amount of good bookstores. Secondly, the wifi cafés are plenty and affordable. Thirdly, the climate stimulates creativity. …
March 20. I read it in the guidebook.
Rested. Travel guidebooks use a rhetorically smooth English that I like to call mashed language. The smoothness of the idiom gives me an artificial taste in the mouth, a taste like a wine that is everymen’s friend but leaves the connaisseur with a bitter aftertaste. It’s the length of the sentences, the range of the …
March 19.
Daniel works at the Argentinian Correos. He is a very friendly and goodlooking guy. He travels daily between Cordoba and Buenos Aires for three months now. Before, he went to all parts of Argentina – he knows every Correos headquarter in the country. His camionette is accompagnied by a custodia-car to protect him from robbers …
