Ink to Blog
Ink to Blog
Victor
I am Victor, a software developer from Germany. I use this blog to structure my thoughts or think them to a conclusion. Some topics are more intuitively written, while others have more research behind them. I will tag them accordingly in the future. The name of my blog comes from the fact that I often write my thoughts about a topic in my journal first and later extract it to a blog post.
Latest Posts
As a teenager, I searched for an identity and found it with music, inside gaming subcultures and the things I consumed. I could assign a role to myself and people would recognize me as someone from that group. It defined me through my...
In my employment contract there is no mention of productivity or an expected outcome. The one thing that is stated: I give time, I receive money, which means I trade time for money. Wouldn't it make more sense to demand something that is...
Gifting can be fulfilling. The gifting person almost always gains something as much as the receiver of our present. Many of our actions are driven by motivation. Gifting is also one of them. Seeing the other person happy or showing them...
Without me, there would be no observer that could experience or assign values to things. If I had not been born, there would be no one who would know that something like an "existence" is even an option. I am the prerequisite for my...
I have no big struggles at the moment. Weeks are flowing into one another and every week feels roughly the same, with small deviations. Months fly by in the blink of an eye. I am mostly healthy and can pursue my hobbies in my free time....
There is no theory too stupid to believe in. If there exists an idea about something, people will defend it. So I no longer wonder how people can believe in a theory that is so far removed from reality that you have to abandon all reason...
One often overlooked benefit of journaling is recognizing our own thinking patterns. Because journaling records our thoughts, after some time we should have an index of the things we think about. We can use this to our advantage to...
Boredom is mostly seen as something negative. We want to kill boredom, because it feels bad. It is the signal that we are starved of engaging activities. My view on boredom is different now from when I was younger. Although the feeling...
Staying slim and fit has always been a goal that has guided me throughout my life. I have been exercising with varying intensity and frequency since I was a teenager. Of course, there were the usual benefits of working out: Staying...
I will present three widely used logical fallacies that share the same principle: my statement is true because I am pointing to some other thing that was present or also true. This other thing doesn't have a correlation to the thing I...
Why do a lot of people feel undesirable during the online dating process? We can of course face rejection while we are already in touch with a person because it just doesn't click. But at least there was an initial willingness to get to...
Why do a lot of people feel undesirable during the online dating process? We can of course face rejection while we are already in touch with a person because it just doesn't click. But at least there was an initial willingness to get to...
When it rains, I feel safe. The outside transforms into a place that should be avoided. Sunny weather will push you to go outside to take advantage of the chances it offers, but rain will not push you. It signals that you'd better stay...
It's a never-ending cycle. I notice that I waste too much time scrolling on my smartphone. I reach a point where I want to change my behavior with long-lasting success. For some time I succeed to follow the rule I have set for myself to...
Power is owned, strength is used. Power can be inherited, but strength cannot. Strength is something you have to show and display repeatedly when the situation demands it. To see the use of strength is evidence enough that a person...