The Best Ginger Tea Ever
Posted on August 28, 2009 | by Markus Stocker
Around the turning point of 2008, in a somewhat turbulent phase, I was a regular customer at a neighborhood café of the city that was then my home. In the midst of a sense of loosing too much, there, I found something: The Best Ginger Tea Ever. Since then, I moved twice, across oceans and [...]
Attractors For Opinion
Posted on August 21, 2009 | by Markus Stocker
In Chaos theory, an attractor is a “set of states of a dynamic physical system toward which that system tends to evolve, regardless of the starting conditions of the system.” A Chaotic system is an example of a Complex system and I hope stating that life is a Complex meta-system of Complex systems is not [...]
Do We Need Perfect Information?
Posted on August 15, 2009 | by Markus Stocker
Last year a friend suggested to me “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” as a must see for what had been called my own personal documentary film festival. After having seen “The Corporation” almost a year ago, this was the second documentary for this festival. I still have at least three to go. This [...]
What Moves Shares & (Some) Faces?
Posted on August 8, 2009 | by Markus Stocker
This recession has been also interesting, not just painful, at least for people with a curiousity for how stock markets react to news. (And, yes, there are probably dozens of other reasons for recessions to be not just interesting but even useful and necessary: They are important regulators in a feedback control loop, so, should [...]
Artificial Boundaries
Posted on August 2, 2009 | by Markus Stocker
If you believe, that you’ll always love someone you loved, indeed, that love cannot be past without being prologue, I believe you agree with me: The emotional separation that is typically enforced following the breakup of a (romantic) relationship is an artificial construct. In fact, one that requires a whole lot of energy to keep [...]
