Category Archives: Thoughts
God Doesn’t Speak But Money Does
In 2004 I found myself going through a personal crisis and of all places I found solace in religion. I grew up in a Jewish exceedingly anti-religious family with very strong Jewish traditional values. I know, it sounds controversial, however, … Continue reading
The Economy and The Middle Class
Not much of a post, but more a comment. The current economic policies and trends are totally destroying the middle class. While the upper/rich class may be the “brain” and the lower/poor class the “body” and “muscles” of society, the … Continue reading
The Closing of 2009
Just as I do every year, I sat down to write this post. I found it particularly difficult; you see, it was not a good year. I always try to focus on the bright aspects of the year that passed. This year is difficult. Continue reading
Thinking In Time And Space
When I was a child I wanted to be a Theoretical Physicist. Maybe the fact that Albert Einstein was somebody I looked up to might have had something to do with it. However, looking back into it, he was an … Continue reading
Filed under General, Interesting, Thoughts
Customer Service In The Era Of The Internet
I despise talking to customer service. Most of the companies I have had to call either for information, to report a problem, ask for a refund, get an RMA, or anything related to service, have resulted in horrible experiences. The … Continue reading
Ethics And Morality
For a while now, I have been concerned with Ethics and Morality. What they mean, how they relate to each other, how humanity interprets and implements them, whether they extend beyond humanity and planet Earth, the history of Ethics and … Continue reading
God
So … here comes Bob and tells me that he had a discussion with a Rabbi and the Rabbi suggested that God might have created the Universe several billion years old and earth with all the fossil evidence of an … Continue reading
A Hybrid Solution
In an early blog posts, Building Scalable Web Systems, I discussed very high level some of the needed premises and basis to architecting scalable systems. What the post did not deal with is insurance and Downtime. What is the point … Continue reading
Filed under Business, Technology, Thoughts
Ducks, Rows, Lines And Business Processes
Image courtesy of rengawman.wordpress.com I like my ducks in a row. Oh yes .. I do indeed. Every time my ducks get out of alignment I react, to some extent, poorly. This is particularly true as I help build companies … Continue reading
Filed under Business, Technology, Thoughts
The End Of Progress
NOTE: In order to make the best read of this post – but you do not have to – you can read The Last Question, by Asimov (at https://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm) and one of my previous posts called Downtime (at http://www.fabianschonholz.com/2008/01/06/downtime) — … Continue reading
Filed under Religion, Technology, Thoughts
