The reason for today's distress

Yesterday’s illnesses did a master reset for our weekend plans resulting a super relaxed Sunday morning session with Valtteri (having his Space Police-Gansta wars and speaking constantly), me listening to divine flow of notes (Das Wohltemperierte Klavier András Schiff – J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 1, BWV 846-869 - Prelude in C sharp major BWV 848) and digging into Hesari’s I did not have time to read during then week.

Late Tony Judt: “The core reason for the distress of our time is that we have placed the pursuit of our individual material interests as virtue, which blurs our awareness of common goals”… exactly to the point.

World build on a static model vs dynamic...

Had a really brain stimulating discussion again with Otto (as always) in Café Picnic…. One new observation worth of writing down:

Only for the last 20-30-40 years we (the “western” life style people) have been living according to sort of “static resources world model” – we assume that energy, water, warmth, all sorts of food and goods are available to us at any given time. The whole (business) world  seem to be actually build upon that demand. More such things are created for us every year. All the competition is around who delivers us the best/cheapest static supply.
Only for the last 20-30-40 years ago world had been based on “dynamic resources world model” – we consume what is “naturally” available at given time of the year, we have bright light when there is day, we buy goods when old ones are worn out….

Our top chefs are actually bringing the dynamic resources world back to food – they emphasize increasingly how we should cook according to our own natural year rotation, from local ingredients.
Solar and wind energy are examples of the same in technology.

Peculiar thought but instead of building ever bigger farms of servers to serve increasing static demand, could we go towards dynamic model eg by Sami Pekkola’s legendary “pick a number for internet service queue” idea – “Our service if powered with solar only - We will service you when resources are available”.

More seriously, looking forward in seeing more companies who make profitable business from being limited, sustainable, dynamic. Might also fit to emerging new work force’s philosophy “do work to able to live, not live for work”?

Socialistic Finland.... because of duopoly

An old thought came into my mind from last summer based on observing how absurdly food retail works outside of capital (and Turku, Tampere, Oulu) area in Finland.
K- and S-groups (having now about 80% of the market) have driven large parts of Finland practically to equivalent of old Soviet Union when it comes to food –  totally centralized “5 year planning” with no power for individual to effect  on supply and shortage of choices (the same everywhere, with not a single “drop” of locality). Centralized production, increasingly producing what people do not want, not really interested if the chain is really sustainable.

The food capitalists did it with “competition” and money what the communist did not manage force upon us :D

The ball is now in Evira and government to really enable the selling local food (all  stuff) and  let the competition start again.

Home laboratory observations leading to not voting for Kokoomus anymore beacuse of Henna Virkkunen...

There’s an increasing worry about the number of Finnish youth dropping out of “wagon” after compulsory schooling – no education, no jobs. I heard number 30 000 in the morning YLE1. I am not sure what the stats say but I believe that group is increasingly consisting of boys.
I have now seen how my two older boys have been going through the “new” course based upper comprehensive school (classes 7-9) instead of the old half year terms based schooling which I myself had. I can only say that I am convinced that the courses based system really has an impact to drive increasing number of boys to to “not experiencing success”-zone. Since all courses are counted for total grades, boys end up having lower grades since they mature later.
Now Henna (and/or the ladies in Opetuministeriö) seems to be showing boys the door by driving this development even further – there is less and less moments for pulling the act together.
Actually, I am not sure if anyone else has REALLY benefitted of this, except the school book publishers – are there REALLY sensible arguments why Otto’s and Vili’s (having a 3km distance between their schools) practically all schools books are different?? 2 x 6 x in average 120€ per year revenue for publishers yes…
(OK –Pisa results are great, but I think my (and previous) generation is doing quite OK with just one set of books).

Typical tuomobs but anyways simply beacuse of what Henna Virkkunen stands for, my vote goes this time to some other party.

I wish someone would turn the education “wagon” for more boys friendly direction, kill the current courses based system, kill the school book business, stop the evident/looming crisis when we have lots of young men not on board on the society.

...hhhhm

So nice that businesses like Erottajan Suutari/Sinatron Oy still exists… 6 hours after fetching the beautifully repaired and polished (!) shoes, I still smile.