Bye bye…

This blog is discontinued.

Please check out my new one http://natari.us/

A letter to my little Sister

How is life on the 6th of June 2011 in Passau, Germany?

From San Francisco i can report the following: Its 12:21am and dark outside. We’re having a slight breeze coming from west (like always) with top winds coming from east (like always), which makes the clouds melt in to each other (like…you guess it…most of the time…and its beautiful). Sun will go up in about 5h….gotta be awesome!

This place is, right now in history, in this universe, one of the few places to be if you are different and feel like to change the world, have an impact and be a part of something! The infidel may disagree, like i did when i was young and a fool.

While you may not be driven by change, I insist you need to come here to see, understand and spread the word that its happening here, right now. damn it! There is no place in this city where people are not creating the stuff that their dreams are made of…its inspiring. They are coming from all over, its a huge diverse melting-pod…latins, asians, africans, americans, europeans, gays, straights, musicians and quantum physicist. One may be foolish enough to call them goofy because they left every thing they had behind to follow their dreams and do what is widely considered stupid: Trust their guts and hope it will work out somehow!

Being here i can tell you: They are not! They are the people, who not driven by money, but by imagination create what is known as “future”.

This City is the home of those who suffer from being called crazy where they come from. You should see the eyes of those who just arrived, they can’t believe this place really exists…full of liked minded creators who don’t discriminate you because you have no idea how to make that crazy stuff happen you talk about! And you need to see the faces of those who have to leave because their visas run out…yes, it can be sad too!

San Francisco waits for you

What we need to learn from Wikileaks

I pretty sure everbody has followed the News about Wikileaks, so i won’t need to detail what is currently Happening. This will not be another article about wether Wikileaks does good or bad. Rather than that, i would like to look at it from a Technology Point of View, because it sadly shows us how vulnerable and centralized the Web in reality is. It demonstrates how easy it is for Governments and Companies to censor information, communication and stop money transactions.

I think it’s time to start seriously about pushing p2p and other decentralized technologies to give us, the people, back the power! Projects like diaspora and p2p DNS have already started working on that mission and it is on us, the users, to make them succeed by switching from centralized services like facebook and google to decentralized ones.

We also need to start thinking about independent payment networks (p2p!?) that simple cannot submit our private data to secret services and companies!

We can do this! This is the moment! This is our time! Successful Projects like Wikipedia already proof that this is possible, so what are we waiting for…let’s go!

Just my 2cents

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Ever heart of that!? Its Parkinson’s Law. A friend pointed me to it. I found it very inspiring and worth sharing with you.

Parkinsons scientific observations, such as the increase in the number of employees at the Colonial Office while Great Britain‘s overseas empire declined (indeed, he shows that the Colonial Office had its greatest number of staff at the point when it was folded into the Foreign Office because of a lack of colonies to administer).

He explains this growth by two forces: (1) “An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals” and (2) “Officials make work for each other.” He notes in particular that the total of those employed inside a bureaucracy rose by 5-7% per year “irrespective of any variation in the amount of work (if any) to be done.”

Their are some great Corollaries:

• Data expands to fill the space available for storage.
• Storage requirements will increase to meet storage capacity.
• Nature abhors a vacuum.

In terms of computer executable code filling CPU resource (see software bloat), a similar law is Wirth’s law.

A second aphorism, attributed to Parkinson and sometimes called “Parkinson’s second law”, is “expenditures rise to meet income“.

The Stock-Sanford Corollary to Parkinson’s Law reads, “If you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute to do.” If a task can expand to fill the time allotted, then conversely, the effort given can be limited by limiting the allotted time, down to a minimum amount of time actually required to complete the task. This phrase is often associated with procrastination.

Parkinson even goes that far to say that: Even if quiting the core tasks of a organisation the administration would still grow!

What does that mean to us!? I would say that it shows how important it is to put up timeframes or deathlines for all of our todo’s! because if not it will take infinite to complete them 🙂

I would sum it up to this: Limits are the friend of efficiency!

best,

Matthias

Chill Out Music

found some great music on iTunes by Denez Prigent which i can’t stop listeing to.

you may know one of his tracks from the motion picture “Black Hawk Down”!?

check it out!

New Track

Hi,
i did a new track which i would like to share with you guys.

if you are ridin on the current house music wave, u gonna love it! 🙂

Hello world!

Hi folks,

so this is my first post to my new private blog. its not the first time i’m trying to start a private blog so lets cross fingers i’ll be writing more then two posts and then forget about my blog 😉

what will i be posting about!? well, like the subdomain says about all my recurring thoughts…that means the stuff that don’t gets out of your head and u just feel that it needs to be spreaded.

best,

Matthias