# #philosophy — Jan Wilmake's Blog

Posts tagged with **philosophy**

## Posts

- [Outcomputed](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2024/outcomputed.md): 1/1/2024 - Predicts the decline of human utility as AI surpasses knowledge workers in capability, proposing becoming "compute allocators" to stay relevant in an AI-dominated future.
- [The post-smartphone era is coming.](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2024/the-post-smartphone-era.md): 1/1/2024 - Explores the shift from smartphone apps to natural language voice interfaces powered by AI agents, advocating for open source approaches to eliminate traditional business boundaries.
- [Why are systems always so hard to integrate with other systems?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2024/why-are-systems-not-working-together.md): 1/1/2024 - Analyzes the barriers preventing seamless system integration and proposes solutions like API search engines and GPT normalization to overcome vendor lock-in and integration complexity.
- [Why I won't join your startup](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2024/why-i-wont-join-your-startup.md): 1/1/2024 - Advocates for independent one-person companies forming reciprocal networks instead of traditional co-founder startups, reducing interpersonal risk while maintaining autonomy and flexibility.
- ["Human-to-Human Content Generation: Embracing the Social Computing Age"](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2023/social-computing.md): 11/14/2023 - Explores the concept of transforming everyday conversations into various forms of digital content through AI-powered "Chatcasts," ushering in the age of social computing.
- [Increasing innovateability](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2023/innovateability.md): 8/1/2023 - Proposes a new system called "purpose driven openness" that uses LLMs to calculate alignment between entities, enabling innovation while preventing misuse of shared technologies.
- [Communify](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2023/communify.md): 1/1/2023 - Explores the idea of creating an algorithm to form perfect communities by clustering people together based on purpose-driven alignment, reducing chronic stress and screen dependency.
- [Controllable Immersion](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2023/controllable-immersion.md): 1/1/2023 - Envisions using AR technology to give individuals control over their digital immersion by filtering out unwanted content and ads from their reality, building a Human OS for healthier digital interactions.
- [Why I like the four seasons in the Netherlands](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2021/why-i-like-the-four-seasons-in-the-netherlands.md): 5/20/2021 - A personal appreciation of each of the four seasons in the Netherlands, from cozy winter gatherings to spring flowers, summer freedom, and autumn storms perfect for water sports.
- [What is Corona, really, and why should we change our mindset?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2021/what-is-corona-really-and-why-should-we-change-our-mindset.md): 5/10/2021 - A philosophical perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic as a social construct that has accelerated the separation between people, both online through internet bubbles and in real life through safety measures.
- [Quitting my job, living cheap, working full time on my startup(s). Saving hundreds of euro's every month.](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2021/quit-job.md): 2/10/2021 - The story of quitting a job to work full-time on startups and implementing aggressive cost-cutting measures to reduce monthly expenses by 300 euros, extending runway to 3 years with 20k in savings.
- [Didn't do shit](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2021/didnt-do-shit.md): 1/14/2021 - A deep reflection on productivity struggles and an innovative solution to align short-term dopamine rewards with long-term goals by automating restrictions and rewards through APIs connected to WakaTime coding metrics.
- [Expanding at the speed of light, and preserving it into eternity](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2021/expanding-at-the-speed-of-light.md): 1/3/2021 - A philosophical exploration of humanity's ultimate purpose to expand in all directions at the speed of light, starting with the evolution revolution on Earth before spreading to other planets and eventually focusing on preservation.
- [The Evolution Revolution](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2021/the-evolution-revolution.md): 1/3/2021 - A vision of a future where humanity uses CRISPR and AI technologies like AlphaFold to control biological evolution, creating non-selfish plants and animals that serve humanity, from houses grown by trees to food-gathering animals.
- [Living in harmony with animals](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2020/live-in-harmony-with-animals.md): 11/18/2020 - Inspired by magpies that recycle bottle caps for food, this article envisions a future where animals serve practical purposes like cleaning trash, delivering packages, and performing tasks instead of robots.
- [What I think Facebook should do](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2020/what-facebook-should-do.md): 9/18/2020 - A proposal for Facebook to offer a premium ad-free subscription that helps users achieve their personal goals by curating content based on their values, rather than maximizing screen time.
- [Know Thyself. But how?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2020/know-thyself-but-how.md): 9/15/2020 - Exploring the concept of building a platform called MindMirror to help people save their experiences, opinions, and memories in one place to better understand themselves and connect the dots in their lives.
- [Why I'm afraid to start dating](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2020/why-im-afraid-to-start-dating.md): 6/5/2020 - A candid exploration of common dating fears and anxieties, from worrying about being boring to fear of rejection, with practical reframing advice to approach dating as a game of mutual discovery.
- [Why I made FriendTime](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/why-i-made-dunbar.md): 10/27/2019 - The journey from creating an addictive mafia game to building FriendTime, an app designed to bring people together in real life and maintain meaningful relationships.
- [The Human Network Explosion](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/human-network-explosion.md): 5/24/2019 - How urbanization and modern communication have caused a Human Network Explosion that our brains aren't designed to handle, potentially leading to increased mental and physical health problems.
- [How I'm going to try to become 10x as productive within a month](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/how-i-became-10x-as-productive-within-a-month.md): 5/2/2019 - Implementing extreme productivity rules including browser tab limits, locked Freedom.to mode, phone delegation, and codebase-first development to achieve 70 hours of coding per week.
- [The theory of everything and the ultimate equilibrium](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/the-ultimate-equilibrium.md): 4/30/2019 - A philosophical exploration of technological evolution and the need to create equilibrium between humanity and technology to avoid being consumed by our superior creations.
- [Daylight is good for me](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/daylight-experiment.md): 4/25/2019 - An experimental approach to maximizing daylight exposure and restructuring the day into four 6-hour quarters to improve productivity, energy levels, and overall well-being.
- [The Hammock Experiment](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/hammock-experiment.md): 4/25/2019 - Experimenting with sleeping in a hammock for a week and discovering six unexpected benefits including better air flow, easier cleaning, and improved sleep quality.
- [Lean Life](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/lean-life.md): 4/23/2019 - Adopting a lean lifestyle as a solo entrepreneur with rules for freelancing, managing finances, and maximizing time for personal startup projects while maintaining financial security.
- [What would a social network that's actually good for humanity look like?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/what-would-a-social-network-thats-actually-good-for-humanity-look-like.md): 3/19/2019 - Envisioning a humane social network with activity-first design, verified identities, small communities, layered sharing, freemium model, and government-enforced open standards.
- [My food goals of 2019: Eat more paleo, ecological and don't go to the supermarket every day](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/my-food-goals-of-2019-eat-more-paleo-ecological-and-dont-go-to-the-supermarket-every-day.md): 2/24/2019 - A detailed monthly grocery plan focused on eating paleo, reducing supermarket trips, minimizing plastic packaging, and spending only 192 euros per month on sustainable food.
- [My 7 Levels of Freedom to minimise stress, doubt and regret and maximise possibility, happiness and growth](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/my-7-levels-of-freedom-to-minimise-stress-doubt-and-regret-and-maximise-possibility-happiness-and-growth.md): 2/7/2019 - Seven levels of freedom to minimize stress and maximize happiness, including location freedom, time freedom, independence from physical objects, and freedom from external expectations.
- [Why I can't quit Facebook](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/why-i-cant-quit-facebook.md): 2/5/2019 - Exploring the challenges of quitting Facebook including timeline memories, contact management, event invitations, FOMO, and the addictive nature of algorithmic content bubbles.
- [Are VR Autonomous Segways the future, or was it just a dream?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/i-saw-the-future-in-detail.md): 1/24/2019 - A dream-inspired vision of future urban transportation featuring autonomous VR-enabled segways that could revolutionize commuting by reducing surface area and allowing multitasking.
- [Fighting housing crises and loneliness with Cheap Community Living](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/fighting-housing-crises-and-loneliness-with-cheap-community-living.md): 1/18/2019 - A vision for affordable pod-based co-living that solves housing crises and loneliness through rating systems, noise-canceling technology, and community-focused design.
- [The new hackers will impersonate the ones you love](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/the-new-hackers.md): 1/11/2019 - How advancing AI tools for face and voice replication will enable sophisticated impersonation attacks, making verified platforms essential for online security.
- [The AI Boom is Near...](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/ai-boom.md): 1/2/2019 - A reflection on how AI and machine learning will soon understand us better than we know ourselves, leading to personal AI advisors that could transform decision-making and human behavior.
- [Pivoting to a creation-centric metric of productivity](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/pivot-creation-centric-metric-productivity.md): 5/22/2018 - A shift in measuring productivity from passive learning and time spent to active creation and hands-on coding, introducing the Groundhog Day 100 Days of Code challenge.
- [The dark side of globalization](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/the-dark-side-of-globalization.md): 4/2/2018 - A critical reflection on the risks of global internet uniformity and platform manipulation, arguing that decentralized regional diversity provides safer experimentation for humanity.
- [How to create a sustainable world?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/how-to-create-a-sustainable-world.md): 3/26/2018 - A philosophical exploration of humanity's environmental impact and potential solutions, discussing climate-control, evolution-control, and population management as strategies for creating a sustainable future.
- [The importance of rooms lies in hyperpolar immersion](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/the-importance-of-rooms-lies-in-hyperbolic-polar-immersion.md): 3/21/2018 - Exploring how different physical and digital environments can create focused immersion states for various goals, especially when living in limited spaces or traveling.
- [It's Nyepi in Bali. Time to reflect](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/its-nyepi-in-bali-time-to-reflect.md): 3/17/2018 - A personal reflection on maintaining a disciplined EAT, CODE, KITE, REPEAT routine in Bali, setting ambitious goals for building community software and creating sustainable technology solutions.
- [The Multiple Personality Coder](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/as-a-full-stack-developer-its-good-to-have-multiple-personality-disorder-2.md): 2/27/2018 - A humorous exploration of different mental modes developers shift between while coding, from debugging to perfecting UI, illustrated through fictional programmer personalities.
- [Why I went to Bali and why I don’t know where I’m going next](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/why-i-went-to-bali-and-why-i-dont-know-where-im-going-next.md): 2/8/2018 - A reflection on the concept of intermittent hyper immersion shifts and how regularly changing environments accelerates personal growth and learning through challenging assumptions.
- [How I’m going to make 2018 my most impactful year yet — A clear vision, fear-setting, and a crystal clear plan.](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/2018-year-of-creation.md): 1/19/2018 - A personal manifesto outlining ambitious 2018 goals, using fear-setting and extreme accountability measures to build two apps while pursuing a vision of working productively in paradise.
- [Justified Dopamine](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/justified-dopamine.md): 12/27/2017 - Seeking dopamine from productive activities like work and exercise rather than quick hacks like social media, gaming, and sugar to align with long-term goals.
- [The basis: what comes after happiness?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/the-basis-what-comes-after-happiness.md): 11/20/2017 - Moving beyond the pursuit of happiness by understanding and mastering our impulses, creating stable habits to focus on bigger issues like the planet.
- [Be conscious!](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/be-conscious.md): 11/16/2017 - A brief reflection on levels of consciousness and the journey toward higher awareness and making a difference in the world.
- [Real artists Ship - A look back at 2017.](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/real-artists-ship.md): 11/9/2017 - A reflective look back at 2017 as a year of learning React Native and JavaScript, documenting the journey from ideas and failed projects to finally achieving productive flow and being ready to ship real products.
- [Is Facebook as addictive as Heroin?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/facebook-heroin.md): 10/18/2017 - A critical analysis comparing Facebook's addictive nature to heroin, examining how social media algorithms designed for user retention may be turning people into zombies with shortened attention spans and reduced real-world value.
- [Why openness from day one is so damn important for solo entrepreneurs in software](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/why-openness-from-day-one-is-so-damn-important-for-solo-entrepreneurs.md): 10/9/2017 - Four reasons why solo software entrepreneurs should share their startup journey openly from day one, including getting valuable feedback, mutual learning, social accountability, and maintaining happiness during long development cycles.
- [I don't know or I don't flow](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/i-dont-know.md): 9/12/2017 - Embracing an uncertain travel lifestyle and going with the flow instead of rigid planning, finding balance between work focus and nomadic freedom.
- [Capitalism drives cyborgs to the top, if we like it or not](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/capitalism-drives-cyborgs-to-the-top-if-we-like-it-or-not.md): 8/13/2017 - A speculative warning about the potential future where capitalism drives the creation of cyborgs who may become superior to humans in business, exploring both optimistic and pessimistic scenarios for human-machine integration.
- [What is the perfect way to study and work on the move?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/perfect-travel.md): 8/5/2017 - A framework for working and studying while traveling, exploring the three phases of settling into a new location and how to maximize productivity through cultivating a habit of change.
- [Counterproductive behaviors of solo-entrepreneurs](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/counterproductive-behaviors-of-solo-entrepreneurs.md): 8/4/2017 - How solo entrepreneurs can maximize productivity by suppressing urges for doubt and communication, creating focused environments and turning decisions into habits.
- [Google makes us creative, but also more self-determined](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/internet-makes-us-creative.md): 7/20/2017 - How Google encourages creativity through positive feedback but creates echo chambers that make us more self-determined yet less open-minded.
- [Cycling through your life part IV - The cycle of the future: towards grown consciousness](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/cycling-through-your-life-part-iv-the-cycle-of-the-future-towards-grown-concsiousness.md): 7/17/2017 - A philosophical metaphor comparing the evolution of bicycle design to the growth of human consciousness, illustrating how internal reflection and external action have changed over time from 1800 to 2200.
- [Cycling through your life part III: The μCycle](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/the-mcycle.md): 7/17/2017 - A conceptual framework for personal growth through rapid iteration, creating a feedback loop that cycles through dreaming, planning, learning, creating, and sharing to accelerate learning and development.
- [What coding teached me about business (and vice versa)](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/what-coding-teaches-me-about-business.md): 7/4/2017 - Six key principles learned from coding that apply to business: structure, logic, efficiency, automation, independence, and transparency.
- [Nomadic Entrepreneurs Interview #1 - Tomas Laurinavicius](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/nomadic-entrepreneurs-interview-1-tomas-laurinavicius.md): 7/3/2017 - An interview with Lithuanian lifestyle entrepreneur Tomas Laurinavicius about his journey from self-taught designer to nomadic blogger, his mission to empower one million people, and tips for aspiring location-independent entrepreneurs.
- [Purpose: Find your ikigai](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/purpose.md): 7/2/2017 - A brief exploration of finding purpose through the Japanese concept of ikigai, the intersection of what you love, what you're good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for.
- [4 Reasons Writing Makes You A More Succesful Entrepreneur](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/why-i-write.md): 6/14/2017 - Four key reasons why writing and blogging benefits entrepreneurs: promoting openness, helping achieve goals through accountability, serving as efficient networking, and organizing thoughts effectively.
- [My solution to revert global warming is creating a status-symbol of your CO2 footprint: A simple MVP idea](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/reverting-global-warming.md): 6/11/2017 - A startup MVP idea to combat global warming by creating an app that turns carbon footprint reduction into a status symbol, gamifying sustainable lifestyle choices through social recognition and financial incentives.
- [True Entrepreneurship](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/entrepreneurship.md): 6/6/2017 - A short poetic reflection on true entrepreneurship inspired by Columbus, emphasizing the importance of taking risks and daring to do what others call stupidity to discover new truths.
- [Jan, clean up your room!](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/about-cleaning-up.md): 5/24/2017 - A practical guide to decluttering and minimalism learned from traveling in Asia, outlining seven steps to simplify your living space and life by choosing a style, creating transparency, and focusing on experiences over possessions.
- [Is Skynet already there? My prediction of the collapse of internet as we know it](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/skynet.md): 5/17/2017 - A prediction about the potential emergence of a distributed deep learning virus that could achieve human-level intelligence by utilizing multiple computers, exploring the implications and preventive measures needed to avoid an AI threat scenario.
- [Effective Communication](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/effective-communication.md): 5/6/2017 - A metaphorical exploration of how people process information differently, comparing them to sheep, rocks, and fish in the river of spoken language to illustrate effective versus ineffective communication patterns.
- [Elephant-shit](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/invisible-elephant-shit.md): 5/6/2017 - A critical examination of how commercial media prioritizes emotion-driven content over truth, using the metaphor of elephant shit to illustrate how news coverage often amplifies fear while ignoring more significant issues.
- [Internet connects the unconnected, but disconnects the connected](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/the-internet-connects-the-unconnected-but-disconnects-the-connected.md): 5/6/2017 - A philosophical exploration of how the internet paradoxically brings distant people together while driving physically close people apart, contributing to rising individualism and weaker community ties globally.
- [The habit of Change](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/habit-of-change.md): 4/28/2017 - A philosophical reflection on why developing a habit of change is essential in our rapidly evolving world, using the metaphor of a rock in a river to illustrate how adaptability creates resilience and growth.
- [16 Ways To Learn A New Language While Having Fun](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/learn-language-having-fun.md): 4/28/2017 - Sixteen practical methods to learn a new language through complete immersion using music, movies, apps, and social connections, making language acquisition fun and efficient without traditional classroom methods.
- [The Hawk-view every starting solo entrepreneur needs](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/hawk-view-entrepreneur-needs.md): 4/24/2017 - Lessons from working intensively on a startup about the importance of maintaining a broader perspective as a solo entrepreneur, balancing four key areas: learning, creating, networking, and sharing.