Month: December 2025
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When “Very Good” Is Not Enough
At some point I stumbled across Adolf Hitler’s paintings online. Not in a history book. Just… there. Watercolours. Buildings. Streets. Quiet scenes. The uncomfortable question followed immediately:All wrongdoings aside — purely as a painter — was he any good? The honest answer surprised me. Yes. He was good. Technically competent. Solid perspective. Careful execution. His…
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A Cup of Coffee That Shouldn’t Have Existed
Here I am, sipping my morning coffee while watching the new Veritasium video about antimatter. At school I always loved physics. I wasn’t a physicist or a mathematician, but something about it pulled me in. I even sat the physics exam for fun and got admitted to university for applied physics, although I never pulled…