Practicing Law
The profession of a lawyer is very challenging. Every penny you earn in that job is hard labor, and work conditions are often bad. When, back in the 1980s, I was working in an international law firm in Cologne, Deringer, Sedemund and Partners, today fusioned with an even bigger international law firm, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. I had to work even on Saturdays for a lousy salary of not even...
Read MoreThe Longhaired Ape
The question if Adolf Hitler was Jewish is discussed among historians, I saw on the Internet, however the controversy remains. What I want to show in this blog entry is that while the matter is of little importance for the course of history, it is revelatory to understand the root problem of human destructiveness. In every family, there are people who stray from the pack, who are different. In my...
Read MoreBuilding the Bridge
Some friends were suggesting some time ago I’d have to build a bridge between myself and my ‘alien’ writings, on one hand, and society, on the other. Others said similar things, more with regard to my scientific writings, saying that what I have so amply accumulated in the footnotes of my e-books should be demonstrated, more visibly, in a Wiki-like website, which was, after all,...
Read MorePublishing Narcissism
I also believe that thinking all true information will one day stream into your house via electronic media is a narcissistic delusion, based on an illusory understanding of democracy. Many Americans and many non-Americans think that is a viable option for the future, ignoring the fact that all professional publishing involves censorship of some kind. For example, the so-called social criticism on...
Read MorePublishing Authenticity
I sketched out my essay The Webolution back in 1998, and it was a prediction that the e-book will ultimately be a cultural revolution. I was commenting on Bill Gates’ book ‘The Road Ahead’ saying it was a much too limited view of the information highway of the future, as it was lacking to describe the cultural dimension. After publishing this essay on ipublica.com at that time,...
Read MoreThe Publishing Challenge
I think that Nelson, my best friend, is talking not only for himself but for many young people these days. He says I prefer an audio book over a book or article and a video over an audiobook. Now let me reply to this first. I agree in principle but as I have Apple TV now I saw a lot of Youtube videos recently, primarily on science, anti-gravity research and so on. And I saw that most of those...
Read MoreA Positive Mind
I am researching since more than twenty years on the principles that people apply to become successful, or those they don’t apply, and not even know about, and that still make for these people becoming successful. The truth is that we are not always conscious of all the implications of our thoughts, actions and desires. But things turn out better for those who have a positive mindset. Many...
Read MoreMy Publishing Story
I am writing since high-school, was elected best of school for writing essays, and a co-founder and editor of our school magazine. The essays I wrote for the baccalaureate were read in front of the entire school. Both of my parents were writers and journalists. I tried to publish early, when still living in Germany, without any success. When I got manuscripts back, I was noticing they had not...
Read MoreAccreditation Please
There is a certain consistency in the way scientists and publishing houses reacted in respect to my writings. If I wanted to qualify it and give it a name, I can only use the word ‘denial’. As this is a phenomenon that goes back to my youth, when I was already refused by publishers in Germany, still writing in German language only, I wanted to find out the reason. It could not be my...
Read MoreAreas of Interest
