Science

Method over opinion

I trust science 100%.

Why

Because it's the only system built to correct itself. A hypothesis that survives one test is still only a hypothesis that survived one test. A hypothesis that survives every test gets as close to truth as anything on this planet.

Science is not one opinion among many. It's the method we use to figure out which opinions are garbage. That's not a detail. That's everything.

I do not trust it because researchers are infallible — they are not. I trust it because the system is designed to find their mistakes. Peer review, replication, falsifiability, primary sources. That beats every influencer hype, every gut-feel politics, every „my truth" podcast format, every time.

What that means in practice

Two schools that shape my thinking

Psychology is the science I work with most — privately, in relationships, in teams. Two strands, both indispensable, both incomplete without the other.

Behavioural psychology

What you do is what you are. Behaviour is measurable, changeable, trainable. Conditioning, reinforcement, heuristics — the tools that actually move the needle.

Minds that count

  • Ivan Pavlov — classical conditioning. The dog, the bell, the saliva. The start of everything.
  • B. F. Skinner — operant conditioning. Reinforcement shapes behaviour. Skinner box, schedules of reinforcement.
  • Albert Bandura — observational learning. The Bobo doll experiment. Self-efficacy as a concept.
  • Daniel Kahneman — System 1 and System 2. Cognitive biases as standard equipment for the brain. „Thinking, Fast and Slow" should be required reading.
  • Amos Tversky — with Kahneman: prospect theory. We aren't rational actors, we are loss-averse with bad statistical intuition.

What I use them for

  • Building habits (small triggers, immediate reward).
  • Catching my own biases before they trick me at decision time.
  • Understanding others structurally rather than morally — behaviour follows incentives.

Depth psychology

What you do has roots you don't see. Unconscious, early imprint, symbols, dreams, transference. Less measurable, often more true.

Minds that count

  • Sigmund Freud — the beginning. Much of it is outdated, but the fact that an unconscious exists was a revolution. The super-ego explains more politics than most political science.
  • C. G. Jung — archetypes, shadow, individuation. The part of yourself you reject rules you most. „What we cannot stand in another can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves."
  • Alfred Adler — individual psychology. Inferiority feeling and the striving for significance. Sense of community as life goal. Underrated.
  • Viktor Frankl — logotherapy. Meaning as psychological necessity, not luxury. „Saying yes to life in spite of everything" is depth psychology lived under the most extreme conditions.
  • Erich Fromm — the bridge to society. „To Have or to Be". What consumer culture does to the psyche.

What I use them for

  • Understanding patterns of my own that reinforcement schedules can't explain.
  • Taking dreams seriously without making a religion of them.
  • Seeing the shadow in relationships — mine and other people's.

What both need

Behavioural psychology without depth becomes marketing. „How do I get you to do X?" That's the discipline that built casinos and social-media apps. Powerful, but empty.

Depth psychology without method becomes esoterics. „Your star sign explains your mother." Nice to read, hard to test, easy to mistake for truth.

Both together — strict method plus the courage to look behind behaviour — actually understands people. And understanding people is the foundation for everything we build here.

What we don't do