Hubertus Väth
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Hubertus Väth
@HubertusVth
Managing Director @FMFDigital. Tweeting about the Financial Centre #Frankfurt, #Banking, #Finance, #Economics, #FinTech and #Brexit. My opinions are my own.
Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland Katılım Ekim 2011
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Richard Feynman didn’t just revolutionize physics; he diagnosed the fundamental sickness of modern status-seeking.
To Feynman, the Nobel Prize was a "pain in the neck." While the world fixates on the external validation of the Swedish Academy, he viewed the "honors" as fundamentally unreal—a distraction from the only metric that actually matters in high-level pursuit.
His philosophy provides a masterclass in intellectual autonomy:
1. The Kick of Discovery: The "prize" is the moment of insight, not the medal. If the work itself isn’t the reward, the accolade is a hollow substitute.
2. The Utility Filter: Real prestige isn't a title; it’s the observation that other brilliant people are actually using your work to build the future.
3. The Institutional Trap: He resigned from the National Academy of Science because it devolved into a "who's who" club. When an organization spends more time gatekeeping than innovating, it’s dead.
We live in an era of "profile-first" achievement where the badge often precedes the breakthrough. Feynman reminds us that true "nobility" in work isn't decided by a committee—it’s found in the pleasure of finding the thing out.
Validation is a lagging indicator. Focus on the kick.
In a world obsessed with digital badges and titles, what is the one "kick of discovery" in your own work that no trophy could ever replace?
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Für alle, die an der kontroversen Diskussion um die Mittelverwendung des SVIK interessiert sind, zur Lektüre empfohlen 👇.
Jens Südekum@jsuedekum
Lieber Herr Stelter, bitte entschuldigen Sie meine späte Antwort auf Ihre Anmerkungen. Die letzten zwei Tage waren – gelinde gesagt – sehr „dynamisch“. Deshalb komme ich erst jetzt dazu. Ich antworte schrittweise auf Ihre Punkte. /1
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@MathiasPriebe @DIEZEIT Verbrannte 600 Mrd. Euro später, dämmert es selbst im Elfenbeinturm.
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@MathiasPriebe So selbstverliebt lasen sich seine Traktate. Seit der Kritik durch Popper an seiner fehlenden “Wissenschaftlichkeit”, im legendären “Positivismusstreit”, habe ich ihn nicht mehr so treffend dekonstruiert gefunden.
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Der Übergang des Subjekts Jürgen Habermas in den Zustand radikaler Apophasis – jener Schwebe, in der das kommunikative Handeln nicht mehr als performativer Akt, sondern als stumme, unhintergehbare Kontingenz des leiblichen Substrats erscheint – vollzieht sich am 14. März 2026 in Starnberg als jene finale Dekonstruktion, die die Theorie selbst immer schon antizipierte: Die Unhintergehbarkeit des Arguments trifft auf die absolute Hintergehbarkeit des Argumentierenden, wodurch die idealisierende Unterstellung einer fortwährenden Diskursgemeinschaft sich nunmehr als kontrafaktische, posthume Projektion erweist. Was hier nicht endet, ist die Geltungssphäre des kommunikativen Vernunftpotentials; was hier lediglich suspendiert wird, ist dessen empirisches Trägerindividuum, das sich in die Anonymität der Lebenswelt zurückzieht, aus der es einst hervorging – ein performativer Akt der Selbstaufhebung, der die prekäre Rationalität des Öffentlichen nicht negiert, sondern in ihrer radikalen Endlichkeit allererst freilegt, sodass die nachmetaphysische Reflexion fortan ohne personalen Signifikanten, doch mit umso größerer normativer Dringlichkeit, weitergeführt werden muss.
R.I.P Jürgen Habermas
#Priebshow
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1957 traf ich Jürgen Habermas das erste Mal auf einer After-Hour Montagmorgen im Berghain.
Wir verstanden uns sofort gut. Wir waren - ohne es freilich zu wissen – schon lange in der gleichen Telegramm-Gruppe "Taxidienst Berlin".
Von da an liefen wir uns immer mal wieder über den weg.
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🌐 FOOD for THOUGHT – Online Event
Frankfurt Main Finance and the Association of International Banks in Germany are delighted to invite you to the next edition of FOOD for THOUGHT.
📌 Thursday, 12 March 2026 | 09:00 – 10:00 (Frankfurt time) | Online
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Michael Born, Counsel at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP. Under the title
“CRD VI and BRUBEG – Navigating Germany’s new cross-border banking rules”
he will address the fundamental reshaping of cross-border banking in Germany following the transposition of CRD VI through the Banking Directive Implementation and Bureaucracy Relief Act (BRUBEG). For third-country institutions – including banks headquartered in the UK, Switzerland, the US, Asia and beyond – the new framework represents a pivotal moment to reassess market access strategies and structural setups within Germany and the wider EEA.
👉 Register here: eventbrite.de/e/food-for-tho…
(The event will be held in English.)
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Recommended reading 👇
Isabel Schnabel 🇪🇺🇺🇦@Isabel_Schnabel
Last week, I had the honour to hold the #EugenBöhmVonBawerkLecture of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. I argued that the narrative that Europe is in decline is misleading and that Europe should unlock the full potential of the Single Market by introducing a #28thRegime. 1/20
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Widerspreche Ihnen höchst selten, aber hier mit Nachdruck: Als serieller Gründer kann ich Ihnen versichern, bei Gründung zahlt man sich erstmal wenig und kündigt sich auch nicht. Vielmehr geht es darum, wohin werden hoch bezahlte Arbeitsplätze verlagert? Jedenfalls nicht nach Deutschland. Haupthindernis aus Sicht der Arbeitgeber ist der Kündigungsschutz. Zumindest in dem Sektor, den ich kenne.
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Schade. Noch nie was von den Kosten des Scheiterns und den enormen negativen Auswirkungen auf Gründung und Innovation gehört. Dabei stand es im Handelsblatt. Das hier ist einfach schwach: handelsblatt.com/100193782.html…
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This woman explains how your self-image decides how people treat you...
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💬🗣️ Wie fällt das Fazit für 2025 aus, Axel Hellmann?
Unser Vorstandssprecher blickt zurück: 25 Punkte aus 15 Spielen, Herausforderungen in Bundesliga und Champions League, die Arbeit von Dino Toppmöller sowie Verantwortung im Verein. Themen sind zudem der Frauenfußball, eine nachhaltige Profiliga, Partnerschaften und wirtschaftliche Stabilität.
Der Vodcast ist ab sofort auf Eintracht.TV verfügbar, der Podcast überall, wo es Podcasts gibt!
#SGE
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@archeohistories “Danton’s Death” by German writer Büchner gives testament to the dynamics of mass killings for the “good cause”.
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On the eve of execution, the condemned of Revolutionary France were often given paper, ink, and a few hours to say goodbye. No speeches were allowed. No appeals were heard. The blade would fall whether the words were written or not. And so bakers, seamstresses, priests, clerks, soldiers, and widows—people who had never imagined themselves part of history—sat in cold cells and tried to compress a lifetime into a page. Many began the same way: My dear wife, My beloved children, Forgive me. The Revolution that had promised liberty and equality now granted its final mercy only in ink.
I’ve read hundreds of these letters. What makes them so unsettling is how ordinary they are. There is no grand political philosophy, no defiant rhetoric. A father worries about debts and winter coats. A mother apologizes for leaving her children without guidance. A young woman asks that her hair be given to her sister.
One such woman was a Parisian seamstress in her early thirties, arrested after a neighbor denounced her for “lukewarm patriotism.” I don’t know why, but her case struck a chord with me. Her crime appeared to amount to little more than having regularly attended Mass and failing to denounce her brother quickly enough. The night before her execution, she wrote to her sister asking that her scissors be given to their youngest niece and that their mother be told she had died calmly.
Again and again, the writers insist on their innocence—not always of crimes, but of hatred. “I die without bitterness,” one wrote, “and I forgive those who send me to death.” The language is plain, domestic, and heartbreakingly human. The Terror did not slay monsters; but it did produce victims who sounded like us.
Many of the condemned had supported the Revolution at first. Some had cheered the fall of the Bastille. Others had denounced aristocrats, signed petitions, worn the cockade. But revolutions devour loyalty as easily as opposition. A careless remark, a past friendship, a failure to applaud loudly enough could be fatal. In the machinery of suspicion, innocence was not a defense—it was often a liability. As one prisoner wrote, “I do not know what crime I have committed, but I know I am to die for it.”
On execution mornings, carts rolled through Paris streets lined with spectators who had grown accustomed to death as public ritual. The letters were folded, sealed, and handed to jailers or priests, some of whom risked punishment to deliver them. Many never arrived. Others survived by chance, preserved in family trunks or police archives—small scraps of paper that outlived the so-called Republic of Virtue. The guillotine was efficient; memory was not meant to be.
These final letters endure because they expose the lie at the heart of revolutionary extremism: that abstract ideals can replace human bonds without cost. When politics demands total purity, ordinary life becomes treason. In the end, the French Revolution did not silence its victims with the blade alone. It silenced them by convincing enough of the nation that the individual did not matter. History’s task is to read their letters anyway.
#archaeohistories
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@BStulberg @ValaAfshar Lateral thinking is a steady source of creativity and problem solving. Edward de Bono knew this.
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A massive new study on peak performance included 34,000 international top performers: Nobel laureates, renowned classical music composers, Olympic champs, and the world’s best chess players. It shows early specialization is a trap, and the road to greatness is long and varied.
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When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting.
Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous, not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. . . . That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. . . . That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. . . . That we could be together for twenty years.
That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. . . . The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday.
I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.
- Ann Druyan
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#Newsletter | What’s moving Frankfurt’s financial centre in December?
👉 Sign up to read the full stories and more insights from Frankfurt’s financial centre: brnw.ch/21wYvZb
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What a beautiful song. Happy weekend everyone.
Joe G@EastEndJoe
Close your eyes for 3 minutes and listen to this. 👇
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Mehr Kooths möchte man rufen. Mit sehr treffender Illustration 👇
Stefan Kooths@StefanKooths
Die Wurzel allen wirtschaftspolitischen Übels: Tiefsitzendes Misstrauen gegenüber Marktprozessen. Würde marktwirtschaftlich gedacht, sähe die Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik grundsätzlich anders aus. Beitrag für die „Ordnung der Wirtschaft“ in der @faznet von heute. @HGoebel
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