Stefan Streit

  • The only thing I can wish ...

    For all of us. That we don’t try so hard to go back to being comfortable and realizing in time, that we have to change, or nature will change our environment in a way we won’t be able to sustain life very long anymore.

    This is not a threat, it is a realistic view I think, of the years that lie ahead of us. Again, money and technology are a great thing, but it won’t be able to balance what isn’t in balance anymore.

    Our brains are given to us to continuously explore alternatives and be capable of dealing with change. So Why not using them as they are supposed to be applied?

    Let us give to ourselves the opportunity and foster an environment, in that we are capable of utilizing close to 7.5 billions of this SuperComputers.

    Happy 2021, wherever you are and Godspeed!

  • A beauty of a day ...

    Here at least, in my little field of sight. Anything was peaceful, mainly quiet for the whole day.

    I’d struggled with my energy levels today, but I was enjoying the day and doing my walk.

    But still I ask myself, will our believe in technology really safe us?
    If we’ll sell all our empathy for it, it won’t work.

  • Focused on my own ...

    Not really in an egotistical way, but recovering from a very slow day, yesterday.

    I realized when I was walking, planet earth is still turning and enjoyed the nearly full moon (hours away).
    It is fascinating how the change in position, let look him always different in size.

    All this is was keeps me alive and curious. I didn’t listen to anything during my walk today, also to give myself space and doesn’t flood my brain.

    So it was a good day, as usually the most really are and I’m quite thankful for that.

  • A day ...

    I had a very long night without being able to fall asleep.

    My whole planning was kinda gone because I was continuously tired and without any imagination of what to do to feel better, stronger.

    I walked later in the day, but also this took a energy toll - sometimes amazing, when the brain and the rest of your body isn’t really in sync.

    Wasted time, not really - still be able to see, listen and hopefully understand life a tiny bit better again.

  • They both said it ...

    “Unfortunately humankind is smarter than it is wise.”
    Eric Weinstein

    “Troublemakers in many parts of the world are often well educated, so it’s not just education we need. We must pay attention to inner values.” Dalai-Lama

    I say … “we need - education of the young (and old) to let them understand how they learn best, each one of the approx. 7.5 Billions individually - we have all to become “earth citizens”, getting rid of thinking of us as nationalities.

    “Taking out the pressure of life”, that all this lying ends, between nations, corporations, scientists, individuals - there is no time to be wasted, but not, because anything has to go faster!“

  • Hunters around the house ...

    And the misunderstanding of Why their is any need to hunt, exists.
    By the way, they not really hunting, the let the dogs do their “dirty work”, a shot occasionally.

    But why? A fox doesn’t bring you anywhere with your nutritional intake.

    One of these things … Where it is a complete waste, to drive 20 times up and down with cars, polluting the environment and putting pressure on a mainly destroyed habitat anyhow.

    Forestry and “industrial grass lands”, Ireland isn’t that nice at all, when you look in the “human touched details” closely and even so their are only approx. 4 Mio. around here - it’s hard to find an untouched spot.

    I’m sorry for all Islands inhabitants, not only the humans.

  • The friendly reminder ...

    To myself as well.

    The great “green energy company/media talk” makes sense when the overall energy use continuously goes down and “green sources” replacing all, what came before.

    NOT when we’re using more and adding on the “green color”, to cover for a still growing demand.

    So may turn off this lights, turn off the electric heater a little bit earlier.

    Don’t buy stuff in the first place you hardly need at all, specially if you can’t bring them to use, even in giving them to someone else.

  • It doesn't matter ...

    When, How or Why you die, at least you stayed curious, until your last breath.

    If this is the case, I believe, you never don’t missed out on anything.

    My conclusion after listening to an Interview (Podcast) with Jill Tarter (Into the Impossible Ep.103).

    I wish for my girls, they’ll find the surroundings, to be able to develop themselves into a similar kind of “a strong - (due to) smart - women”.

    I’m not a scientist and in the moment, I feel myself not really very helpful as dad, to help them archiving this. But I don’t give up hope - for all of us “earth inhabitants”.

  • To not forget ...

    Everyday counts and it is good to be able to understand that.
    To find in everyday the beauty that is still around us.

    It’s hard sometime, but imagination is able to help as long as we aren’t getting lost in there.

    Watching science-fiction, so we’re able to imagine it, we should be able to do good as well, I think.

  • What farmers can do ...

    And “make use of” the UBI (Universal Basic Income), that they will get too. - To stop burning their trash in the backyards and also the nasty stuff like plastic, empty hydraulic oil cans, etc.

    Got really angry as I saw on my round what they pilled up on there “burning spot” today.

    Why there even telling their kids they love them, because the suffering they will cause them in doing this stupid, ruthless thing - I guess, because to safe money - for a dead world ???

    So there are many ways an UBI can be applied, to the better for all of us!

  • The shortest ...

    Day of the year, so a short note as well.

    Live your life to the fullest, but don’t stand on the shoulders of others in doing so.

    I was able to laugh a couple of times during listening to Podcasts today, very relaxing. Hope you had the same opportunity, too.

    I hope, as the days getting longer, that our moods will lighten up accordingly as well, here in the darker parts of earth, at present.

  • I just wrote about it ...

    Yesterday and today I heard about it, in another context as well on the StarTalk Podcast.

    But that it is, with everything - the nationality of someone is a complete outdated thinking, only to keep citizens “small and handle them carelessly”, because a very small group of us 7.5-8 billions still live in the past, where power and oppression is the only thing to drive development.

    If we got our self-management (our taking on responsibility for ourselves) not in order, with it the ability to work together without discrimination, I do think, we’ll be screwed.

    Yes, it easier to handover responsibility to a few and blame them afterwards, but that is also part of, what all of us have to stop doing! - Anyone is part of the whole - nature doesn’t care, if we like or dislike this fact, but every single life depends on it!

  • Is the majority ...

    Turned nuts, or waken up finally?

    It doesn’t feel very much as the second, because people are clinging to old values in an ever changing, even faster changing, ecological system that doesn’t care about our values - it only wants to balance out, the imbalanced.

    And we are worried about someone else could have more then we do, perfectly to be seen with “cold war gameplay” between the “former power nations” (cyberattacks), or the “Brexit live show”, because if this planet collapse, no one will care about power anymore, only about survival.

    When we allow that, to come - then humanity needs no zombies, the cruelties will be on the raise by its own.

    There is intelligent life on earth and I won’t stop to believe in it - please wake up and do less to hurt the environment and people around you.
    No need to do more worthless things, if they don’t have any direct impact on “human potential growth”, or the regeneration of our ecological systems.

    The only solution with all this, to work globally together, no need for commercial organizations, only humans they really care about life.

    We are all earth citizens (if we like it or not). Don’t listen to any Propaganda that try to tell you any different!

  • What really ...

    Should be done, in Kindergarten and the first ten years of school?

    To help every single individual there, to understand how she/he/it is capable of learning and how every single one does it, in his own way the best.

    Not to filling them up with outdated information, or forcing them to let collapse their brains, only to meet the “standard criteria”, measured by multiple choice tests.

    Wrecking brains in learning stuff, only by “short term memorizing” to reach the marks isn’t helping, I even believe it destroys inspiration and creativity.

    We have to change the basics, if we want to succeed and survive as species, I think.

  • A little bit ...

    Angry today, after I listened to a Podcast from Sam Harris’s Making Sense series Ep.#228 today.

    Why, you’re asking?

    Because it is always the same - the good story we tell ourselves - that we are helping afterwards.
    First we earn the money - who cares how many are suffering on the mere fact of how we’re doing so - and than we give it back to charity.

    This is a flawed approach in a flawed system.

    It reminds me working in the big companies, hearing the great stories of achievements - everyone pretending, selling “pro-active Software”, doing the “pro-active approach” to make anything more efficient and everything will be better for everyone.

    Did I really saw this “pro activity” in IT of companies as an example?
    Maybe a handful of companies they tried hard, but because of the general consensus “of making more profit = money”, anything else was more pressing than the “pro-active work”, to avoid problems in the first place.

    The time to think stuff through before applying it, doesn’t take place in an “endless growth driven system”, because there is no time for it.

    I refering back to the statement, I like Ricardo Semler (Semco Brazil) so much for, as he said: “If you have so much left now, that you have to give it continuously to charity, could it be, that you took to much along the way, all the time, in the first place?”

    I do think our goal should be that there is no need for any charity anymore, because we already taking care of that as part of a “human (earth inhabitants) centered system” to begin with, that they are not necessary anymore.

  • Interesting it was ...

    I did it, I could keep word that I gave to myself and finished the servers before midnight, three of them all together.

    And the interesting thing was, as it became with my evening routine 1 a.m. in the morning and I woke up again at 4:30 a.m., having a dream to be an IT service technician, who was working for a Chinese customer, trying to fix weird Computer problems on his Apple Hardware.

    Our brain and our consciousness are fascinating.

  • A good day ...

    But challenges along the way. So I keep it short and sweet, because I’m stubborn too at times and this Server has to run today the way I want it to.
    Also we have an orange storm warning, so it may be a restless night anyhow.

    I listened to another Episode of James Altucher’s Podcast today, brought me to my own conclusion that addictions are caused by our “reward hungry” brains. So beside the internal stress factors that causes us searching “rewards”, we definitely don’t need the additional external ones.

    So it looks like, I just riding the wave … with this “server setup”. 😁

  • The crazy stories ...

    We tell, we see, that are created to entertain us, to scare us and to make us believe in things that aren’t even there.

    Not an easy thing to handle.

    The highest valued thing these days it feels to me is trust, the ability to receive it as well as give it.

    It is interesting that we see all the strong, fighting women, I’ve two girls and I want them strong, but we have enough fighting because of men.
    In my understanding we need less war, less fighting anything, it brought us definitely nowhere in our development, only more suffering.

    Please can we not simple stop with that?

  • The not so ...

    Good minutes from yesterday’s reflection were carried over to today. 1st day since months that I only walked 3 km outside, didn’t feel well at all - completely exhausted, ready to leave for good.

    As I’m still writing … not that easy to get rid of me after all.

    Hope tomorrow will have more energy, that is shared with me as well, available 🤔

  • I'm investing ...

    Still to often, into the wrong things.
    I still try to run this “money game” that you can’t win, only when you’re born rich, or take it away from others. Because it can not function differently.
    It was created as “endless growth system, infinite resources included”.
    But they aren’t there, this “infinite resources” = someone or something has to suffer, it doesn’t matter in which way you try to turn it around.

    Something like this can’t be find in nature and if found, this systems are failing rather sooner, than later too.

    I was just starting a couple of weeks ago with the “mostly sugarless trip”, but caused myself a bad relapse.
    Unfortunately cooking doesn’t bring me any joy, nor relaxation, it’s more the opposite - but if you want to avoid sugar, beside the sweets itself, there is no way around it.

    So in a bad place, with regards to getting healthier and happier.

    I listened attentive to my kids today and what I heard, following my own interpretation, it was about the constant tries to escape “real life” and yes, this is worrisome, too.

    Why is it at times so hard to simple “fall back”, on all “the little good things” that happened today as well? … I won’t give up to remember myself on them! 😀

  • Today I've to ...

    Remind you, that the one 100% sure thing in our life, is our own death.

    Everyone of us has to face it, maybe in a few minutes, or in 93 years.

    But even so this is coming for everyone of us, doesn’t give us the right to determine it for others.

    And this is the reason why we should care about each other, the environment we are in, we have to live in and anything that generates an impact on this variables.

    It’s nothing awful or complicated, simple things anyone can do - in taking care on her-/himself, the next living being around you, stuff you use.

    Start now, don’t wait or make it complicated.

  • Are we done ...

    Not sure, I’m it for the day.
    So many uncertainties around, not really in a writing mood, either.

    So a short one … doing the right things, at the right time and changing the “old normal” instead of going back to it. That’s my challenge in the moment.

    Around Christmas many not so great things happened in my life so, not a very restful, relaxing time for me and my fourth year “alone” (kids are with me on the 24th), because we celebrate in the evening on that day.

    But not to forget to mention, I’m surrounded by my furry friends (5 of them) so never really alone, anyhow.

  • Being back ...

    In applying Wim Hof’s breathing technic and I hope it helps my body to further gaining strength. Feels weird and strange again, have always an interesting taste in my mouth, producing a smell I can not categorize.

    Interesting and hopefully more helpful than destructive for my body. I kept on to apply the cold showers, but I’m not doing it 10 minutes long.

    Today I’m once more angry with myself, about something I don’t grasp properly. I worked around the problem, but doesn’t like it either - I want to understand (like Rumpelstilzchen).

    I’m already trapped in my anger spiral. What a waste of time and energy. At present, this realization does make me even more cranky.

  • Don't take me serious ...

    It’s all bullshit when I tell you my overall feelings are negative, because yesterday wasn’t that bad at all.

    Many good things happened, only in the end, I - my brain - didn’t get what it / I wanted, the needed outcome just at that time.

    But time is not really our opponent, it’s always ourselves who puts the pressure on, as we do on this planet’s ecosystem, too.

    Take a step back, breath in, let go of our imagined stress, that we created for ourselves.

    May it is another reward, only generated to please our brains, to make us feel more important then anyone else around us?

    By the way I solved the issue on another level today and it worked just fine.

  • When you ...

    Learn something, but you aren’t able to even put your problem that you encountered into words to describe your issue - to understand it in greater detail - then you have troubles, as I do.

    It’s about “regular expressions” , I do even believe its a rather simple issue, but I’m not capable - at least not now - to put it in words and be able to find a solution online for my challenge.

    So the overall feeling is - 🙁

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