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Welcome to My Blog

– by TM Garret Schmid

If you came here for one neat topic and a clean brand, you might be disappointed at first. Not because I cannot pick a lane, but because life does not show up in clean lanes. And the older I get, the more suspicious I become of anything that pretends it does.

In this blog, I will talk about religion and philosophy, and about antisemitism and racism. I will talk about history and modern world problems. I will write about music, trauma, and recovery. I will dive into technical worlds, and talk about artificial intelligence, binary code, engineering, and problem solving. And there even might be a rant here or there, about immigrants(I am one), responsibility, or how people talk big about values until it costs them something.

And yes, I know how that looks. It looks like someone who cannot decide what he wants to be. But here is the truth even though I said at the beginning it looks like there is no one neat topic or clean brand, there actually is…. There is one lane, and it is not a topic. It runs like a red thread through everything I write or talk about. It is a question. How do human beings become what they become, and how do we change it without lying to ourselves? That is the only thing I have been circling for most of my life, whether I knew it or not.

If you are here because you want a simple world where the good people are always right and the bad people are always over there – this blog will frustrate you. If you are here because you are tired of being manipulated – by others, by your own emotions, by your own past, by your own certainty – then you are in the right place. 

Read. Disagree. Think. 

But do not outsource your conscience. 

And do not let anyone, including me, do your thinking for you