What This Is About
This blog is my place for thoughts that don’t need to be loud to have an impact.
Some are foundational, some offer a calm interpretation of current events, and others explain how things work beneath the surface.
Together, they form a picture of how I read the world — in patterns, questions, and connections.
And perhaps you’ll find something here that helps you:
a bit more orientation in a noisy world, more clarity in complex situations, and an understanding of connections that are easily overlooked.
Not as quick answers, but as thoughts that may strengthen your own thinking.
And when an idea needs more space, you’ll find deeper papers that let understanding go a little further.
WHEN ORDER MEETS SILENCE
Why do structured ideas so often meet silence instead of resistance?
A reflection on habits of thought, quiet order, and the question
of why some ideas do not need to be refuted in order to be ignored.
THIS WAS 2025 – AND WHAT MAY MATTER FOR 2026
The Year 2026 – A Thought Experiment (Part 2)
2026 begins without a rupture — but with the question of what orientation might rest on going forward.
A thought experiment on what follows from 2025 — not as an outlook, but as a measure.
Not to predict what will come, but to recognize what endures as things go on.
THIS WAS 2025 – AND WHAT MAY MATTER FOR 2026
The Year 2025 (Part 1)
2025 appeared stable. Much worked, much continued —
and that was precisely what made the year deceptively calm.
A reflection on a year of restraint and postponement, and on the question of what stability actually means when nothing escalates.
Not to judge, but to understand how stability truly came about —
and what it failed to prove.
PHILOSOPHY OF RESILIENCE
Part 2 – Control Thinking
Control is not the opposite of thinking — it is thinking in a state of alert.
Structures, rules, and metrics arise not only from rationality, but often from the attempt to soothe uncertainty.
This text explores what happens to our mental space when fear pushes thinking into immediate control — and what becomes possible when the impulse to secure everything at once is briefly suspended.
It is a text about a form of thinking that does not merely fight uncertainty, but is able to carry it.
PHILOSOPHY OF RESILIENCE
Part 1 – Uncertainty
Uncertainty arises from the fear of loss.
Those who cannot bear this fear try to control uncertainty.
Those who can bear it begin to think.
„UNFILTERED POWER“ –
WHEN POWER BECOMES VISIBLE
Trump is not the subject of this essay —
but he is the mirror through which something more
fundamental becomes visible.
Not about him, but about us:
about how political systems operate once they stop concealing
what usually remains hidden.
→ To the article: “When what is hidden suddenly becomes loud”
For readers who want to go deeper: the full paper, including all chapters, historical references, and sources, is available as a downloadable PDF [here].
THE RARE MOMENT IN WHICH A THOUGHT EMERGES
We live in a time in which much is said – but very little is truly thought.
Between quotations, formulas, and ready-made opinions, something is lost that has always been scarce:
the moment in which a thought genuinely belongs to us.
What does it mean today to think for ourselves when the world offers us finished answers at every turn?
THE TRUTH EVERYONE KNOWS –
BUT NO ONE SAYS OUT LOUD
The wish is long-term.
The reflex is short-term.
Between them stands a system that wobbles —
and a truth we only rarely admit.
THE RISK DOESN’T EMERGE
WHERE EVERYONE IS LOOKING
There are moments when markets trade nothing but expectations — and reality slowly fades from view.
Those who look closely will notice: the greatest risks don’t arise in the market itself, but in the assumptions behind it.
For the scientific-analytical paper that questions a central market assumption, click [here].
THE FUTURE BELONGS TO PRIVATE INVESTORS
In our academy, we don’t work with the largest pools of capital — we work with the largest responsibilities: people who carry their own money, their own future, and their own decisions.
This is where real stability — and real competence — emerge.
Not because institutional investors are wrong, but because self-competence has a stronger impact than delegation.
When many people understand what they are doing, the entire system becomes more stable than any glossy fund ever could.
→ [To the article “Private Instead of Institutional Investors”]
NVIDIA – THREE EPISODES
ABOUT A MODERN ILLUSION
Sometimes a stock doesn’t rise because a company is strong – but because we need something larger than ourselves.
NVIDIA is not just a corporation; it is a story that our time tells about itself – shaped by longing, by speed, and by an illusion we rarely question.
And from that illusion emerges something we eventually call a fair price.
→ [To the article: “NVIDIA – A Story About Meaning, Not About Valuation”]
THE TRILLION QUESTION:
POWER, MARKETS AND MUSK
Historically, rulers treated entire realms as their private property — emperors, kings, conquerors. Their control over resources often exceeded anything a modern billionaire possesses. And yet none of them ever had “a trillion in the bank.”
Today, power no longer shows itself in land or treasure, but in corporate valuations and equity stakes. The concentration of power hasn’t disappeared — it has simply changed its form.
The news about Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar package isn’t a scandal to me. It’s a mirror — an invitation to reflect on how much power can gather in the hands of a single person, once through empires, now through market prices. And what that says about our time.
THE SILENT RISK OF ETFs:
WHEN FUNCTION REPLACES MEANING
There are systems that do not fail but become dangerous precisely because they function too well.
Markets, algorithms, processes – everything appears to run smoothly,
each mechanism reinforcing the next.
Yet the more flawlessly a system operates, the easier it loses touch with reality.
Prices begin to confirm each other, models validate models, data circulates between machines.
Nothing breaks – and yet something fades: meaning.
Some thoughts on fundamentals.
WHAT TRULY MATTERS: PRICE OR HOLDINGS?
This text explains why the Amygdalus Academy is being created – and why it must think differently from traditional financial education.
There is no shortage of information, yet many people lack a structure that stabilizes their behavior and supports them in difficult phases.
Over the years, I have seen that orientation doesn’t come from adding more knowledge, but from repeatable processes that make building position and substance tangible.
This is where Amygdalus begins: with a methodology like AES – not loud or speculative, but systematic, transparent, and built for the long term.
If you want to understand how real stability emerges – in action, not just in thought – the answer begins here.
A few reflections of our own.