If you want to discuss on the following issues, feel free to email me. These are my dearest hobbies. The order is accidental.

• Restaurants
• Energy - oil, peak, etc.
• Dendrology
  • maples in particular
  • names of trees of Finland — with pictures etc
• Botanical gardens
  • Tampere, Helsinki, Lisbon, Padova, Oslo, Nancy, Bulavayo, Hangzhou, Paris, Taipei, Singapore, Sydney, Tallinn, Milan, New York (Brooklyn, Bronx), Hilo (Hawaii), Jinghong (China, Xishuanbanna, 3 different), Rio de Janeiro, Belem.
• Military history
  • especially the eastern front in WW2
  • humanity in extreme situations, and problems of leadership
  • history of Gulag and concentration camps and genocides in general
  • technological developement of warfare.
• Globalisation and its counter forces
  • global democracy, NIGD, development co-operation, future of UN, NGOs
• History, present, and practice of drug use
  • problems and inevitable collapse of current USA-led prohibitionism ("war on drugs")
  • alcohol and its place in the western culture
  • the optimal way of mixing gin tonic or caipirinja and enjoying it in the afternoon
• Work related
  • System architecting
  • Management of development of large systems
  • Strategies and organization structures.
  • Project management and systems architecting
  • Lean development
• Traveling
  • preferably by bicycle or train
  • Some favourite cities: Venice, Delhi, Sydney, New York, Paris, Prague, Darjeeling, Shanghai, Florence, Cortona, Istanbul, Maputo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Berlin, Singapore
  • Staying on colonialist or just old hotels
    • Peace Hotel (Shanghai), Pujiang (Shanghai), Old Bellevue (Darjeeling) , Hotel Athens (Cortona), Imperial Hotel (Prague)
• Philosophy
  • intuitionistic logic, constructive type theory
  • philosophy of language, especially Wittgenstein's later philosophy
  • computational linguistics
  • philosophy of science, especially Kuhn, Popper, Feyerabend
  • philosophy of art, especially Danto
  • the problem of consciousness, AI.
  • the foundations of mathematics and computing
• Reading
  • I read regularly paper copies of : Helsinginsanomat, International Herald Tribune, Economist, New Internationalist, Scientific American, Foreign Affairs, Suomen Kuvalehti, Kauppalehti, Tietoviikko, Tekniikanmaailma, Guardian Weekly
  • I follow the netsites of: Guardian, Independent, New York Times, Zeit, Iltalehti.
  • Books: too many to mention, some 40 meters at home, but see a list of books I have recently read.
• Exercise.
• Writing
  • Letters to the editor of Helsingin Sanomat

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