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Why Investors Can’t Afford to Ignore Cybersecurity: A Wake-Up Call

In today’s hyper-connected world, where data is the new oil and dig­i­tal infra­struc­ture under­pins near­ly every busi­ness, cyber­se­cu­ri­ty isn’t just an IT check­box — it’s a cor­ner­stone of sus­tain­able value cre­ation. Yet, investors often over­look it, treat­ing it as a periph­er­al con­cern rather than a core eco­nom­ic dri­ver. Draw­ing from insights on the per­sis­tent under­es­ti­ma­tion of cyber risks, this post explores why cyber­se­cu­ri­ty demands a seat at the invest­ment table. I’ll break down the

Jan­u­ary 20, 2026

Whom Do Humans Trust? An Interdisciplinary Dive into Trust Through Time and AI Challenges

In a world brim­ming with con­nec­tions — both real and vir­tu­al — trust remains the invis­i­ble glue hold­ing soci­eties togeth­er. From ancient tribes to mod­ern dig­i­tal net­works, humans have always nav­i­gat­ed the del­i­cate bal­ance of whom to rely on. But what shapes this trust? Draw­ing from phi­los­o­phy, soci­ol­o­gy, anthro­pol­o­gy, his­to­ry, and psy­chol­o­gy, this post explores the essence of human trust, how it has evolved, and the pro­found chal­lenges posed by the

Jan­u­ary 13, 2026

The Attention Economy: When Influence Becomes Currency and Truth a Casualty

In an era where scrolling through social media feeds has become as habit­u­al as breath­ing, atten­tion has emerged as the ulti­mate com­mod­i­ty. Coined by econ­o­mist Her­bert Simon in the 1970s, the “atten­tion econ­o­my” describes a world where human focus is scarce, and plat­forms, influ­encers, and politi­cians com­pete fierce­ly to cap­ture it. What began as a frame­work for under­stand­ing infor­ma­tion over­load has evolved into a sys­tem where ordi­nary peo­ple trans­form into influ­encers, ped­dling con­tent on

Jan­u­ary 12, 2026

Navigating Truth in the Age of AI: The Fragile Credibility of Photos and Content

In a recent post on vali.now titled “Assess the Verac­i­ty of Pho­tos”, Rebec­ca John­son delves into the chal­lenges faced by even sea­soned jour­nal­ists, like those at The New York Times, when ver­i­fy­ing images amid a flood of syn­thet­ic media. The piece recounts how, fol­low­ing U.S. mil­i­tary strikes in Venezuela, Pres­i­dent Trump’s social media post of Nicolás Maduro in cus­tody sparked a wave of ques­tion­able pho­tos. It high­lights the steps pro­fes­sion­als take—from acknowl­edg­ing uncertainty

Jan­u­ary 9, 2026

Serendipity: The Science Behind Connecting the Dots

Revis­it­ing “Con­nect­ing the Dots” Years ago, I wrote about my per­son­al approach to life and work: con­nect­ing the dots. Instead of rigid New Year’s res­o­lu­tions or elab­o­rate strate­gies, I chose to stay open, mind­ful, and engaged with my sur­round­ings. When I’m fully present—focusing on each moment and con­tribut­ing what­ev­er I can—unexpected con­nec­tions emerge. Dots appear that I can link togeth­er, lead­ing to insights in my per­son­al life and even in busi­ness deci­sions. But when I’m

Decem­ber 18, 2025

The Human Element: Why Social Engineering Wins in the Age of Machines

After decades spent build­ing dig­i­tal prod­ucts for clients and part­ners, I found­ed vali.now with a sim­ple, frus­trat­ing real­iza­tion: the most sophis­ti­cat­ed secu­ri­ty sys­tems in the world were con­sis­tent­ly being undone not by code, but by con­ver­sa­tion. With Datarel­la, we have watched as orga­ni­za­tions poured for­tunes into tech­nol­o­gy that cre­at­ed impen­e­tra­ble dig­i­tal walls, only to have their own employ­ees polite­ly open the front door for any­one with a con­vinc­ing story. This para­dox — that

Decem­ber 17, 2025

Why longevity is important for all of us

Accord­ing to the Cam­bridge Dic­tio­nary, longevi­ty means “a long life.” It might not be sur­pris­ing that research into extend­ing the human lifes­pan is called “Longevi­ty” or aging research in mod­ern med­ical sci­ence. How does this dif­fer from the rest of med­i­cine? Today’s med­ical progress has pri­mar­i­ly been respon­si­ble for increas­ing the aver­age human lifes­pan by address­ing health con­di­tions that pre­vi­ous­ly had a high mor­tal­i­ty rate and sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduc­ing infant mor­tal­i­ty rates.

August 29, 2024

Meditation: The Silent Symphony in the Brain

As we delve into the com­plex world of med­i­ta­tion and its pro­found effects on our brain, let us explore the var­i­ous regions of the human cere­brum that are har­mo­nized through med­i­ta­tion. From the calm­ing effect on the amyg­dala to pro­mot­ing cre­ativ­i­ty in the pre­frontal cor­tex — med­i­ta­tion can change our think­ing and per­cep­tions of our­selves and our envi­ron­ment. The Amyg­dala: The Fear Cen­ter Med­i­ta­tion has shown that it reduces activity

August 28, 2024

The Mindful Revolution: Harnessing the Power of Our Brain to Create a Better Future

I firm­ly believe that our mind can heal not only our phys­i­cal body but also our emo­tion­al well-being. By focus­ing on cre­at­ing pos­i­tive emo­tions, we can enhance our longevi­ty and achieve our goals more effec­tive­ly. Our thoughts, reac­tions, and emo­tions shape the real­i­ty we expe­ri­ence daily. To change our lives and cre­ate a new per­son­al real­i­ty, we must first alter our mind­set by rec­og­niz­ing and mod­i­fy­ing our uncon­scious habits, behav­iors, and

August 23, 2024

Introducing NOMIX — The Future of Personalized Health Optimization

At NOMIX, we are on a mis­sion to empow­er indi­vid­u­als to take con­trol of their health and longevi­ty through the use of cutting-edge tech­nol­o­gy. Our team of experts in the fields of AI, blockchain, and biotech­nol­o­gy has been work­ing tire­less­ly to devel­op a rev­o­lu­tion­ary new plat­form that com­bines the power of decen­tral­ized arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence with the lat­est advances in bioin­for­mat­ics and bio­mark­er analy­sis. Our flag­ship prod­uct, the Col­lec­tive Dig­i­tal Immune Sys­tem (CODIS),

April 28, 2023

Co-operation

Recent­ly, there need­ed to be more time to blog. How­ev­er, today, I found one pas­sage in the audio­book “The Cre­ative Art” by Rick Rubin, so impres­sive that I want to share the fol­low­ing slight­ly edit­ed snip­pet: Coöper­a­tion is a prac­tice. Indi­vid­ual actors and per­spec­tives come togeth­er to cre­ate a new vision. Each actor adds their own orig­i­nal point of view. Each can solo or lay­out, as best serves the work. Each time we coöperate,

March 14, 2023

Datarella, Biennale de Paris, Ocean Protocol Launch Invisual Art Market

In a world pre­mière, Datarel­la, Bien­nale de Paris, and Ocean Pro­to­col, present DIAM, the Decen­tralised Invi­su­al Art Mar­ket­place. DIAM allows buy­ing invi­su­al art in a total­ly new way, by com­bin­ing the inter­na­tion­al art mar­ket with Web3, the lat­est tech­no­log­i­cal devel­op­ment. DIAM is the Decen­tral­ized Invi­su­al Art Mar­ket­place. It intends to value a new form of cre­ativ­i­ty, a new form of art: Invi­su­al Art. The idea of DIAM is to unleash cre­ativ­i­ty on a glob­al scale. DIAM’s dream is

Novem­ber 18, 2022

GOOD READS

The Mind­ful Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

Die Acht­same Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

What‘s our prob­lem?, Tim Urban

Rebel Ideas — The Power of Diverse Think­ing, Matthew Syed

Die Macht unser­er Gene, Daniel Wallerstorfer

Jel­ly­fish Age Back­wards, Nick­las Brendborg

The Expec­ta­tion Effect, David Robson

Breathe, James Nestor

The Idea of the Brain, Matthew Cobb

The Great Men­tal Mod­els I, Shane Parrish

Sim­ple Rules, Don­ald Sull, Kath­leen M. Eisenhardt

Mit Igno­ran­ten sprechen, Peter Modler

The Secret Lan­guage of Cells, Jon Lieff

Evo­lu­tion of Desire: A Life of René Girard, Cyn­thia L. Haven

Grasp: The Sci­ence Trans­form­ing How We Learn, San­jay Sara

Rewire Your Brain , John B. Arden

The Wim Hof Method, Wim Hof

The Way of the Ice­man, Koen de Jong

Soft Wired — How The New Sci­ence of Brain Plas­tic­i­ty Can Change Your Life, Michael Merzenich

The Brain That Changes Itself, Nor­man Doidge

Lifes­pan, David Sinclair

Out­live — The Sci­ence and Art of Longevi­ty, Peter Attia

Younger You — Reduce Your Bioage And Live Longer, Kara N. Fitzgerald

What Does­n’t Kill Us, Scott Carney

Suc­cess­ful Aging, Daniel Levithin

Der Ernährungskom­pass, Bas Kast

The Way We Eat Now, Bee Wilson

Dein Gehirn weiss mehr als Du denkst, Niels Birbaumer

Denken: Wie das Gehirn Bewusst­sein schafft, Stanis­las Dehaene

Mind­ful­ness, Ellen J. Langer

100 Plus: How The Com­ing Age of Longevi­ty Will Change Every­thing, Sonia Arrison

Think­ing Like A Plant, Craig Holdredge

Das Geheime Wis­sen unser­er Zellen, Son­dra Barret

The Code of the Extra­or­di­nary Mind, Vishen Lakhiani

Altered Traits, Daniel Cole­man, Richard Davidson

The Brain’s Way Of Heal­ing, Nor­man Doidge

The Last Best Cure, Donna Jack­son Nakazawa

The Inner Game of Ten­nis, W. Tim­o­thy Gallway

Run­ning Lean, Ash Maurya

Sleep — Schlafen wie die Profis, Nick Littlehales

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