Moritz (better.delete@this.not.tell) on February 26, 2012 2:29 am wrote:
> I found the personal off-topic content in the introduction strangely interesting.
> "I was the co-founder of Strandera, a start up ..."
> First I thought, interesting to know what these respected distant Internet-people do off-line.
> Then
> "A while back, my friend and colleague Andreas Stiller reported ..."
> I was like wait, Andreas Stiller as in as@heise an author in my favorite computer magazine (c't)
> from my home city of Hannover in Germany? Must be, unlikely there are that many in this field.
> kll
> Reading your Authors description I find that you care for economics. Although not formally educated
> in the field of macroeconomics I took deeper interest in it with the 2008 events. One of my general
> fascinations is how complexity arises from simple rules and many agents and how people are incapable
> of dealing with large systems coping by making it a conspiracy or what I find similar God, ghosts,
> ect.(because both are reductions to a single(human) entity, which people are used too.). Even money-flow
> is difficult for most, it seems to disappear all the time, especially in government.
> Putting something off-topic on the page is inappropriate, but are you active
> in that area on some other site? My favorite blog and forum about it closed some
> time ago and I have not come across a similar level of discourse since.
> I hope I did not cross some line. I try to read and enjoy quietly/leave the posting
> to the more experienced, but it is hard not to get exited when you find smart people.