In recent months I have met many inspiring people. They are generous, fun to be around and solving the world’s problems. Diabetes, partnerships, waste, security, retirement – all of these are huge problems, and I met people that are doing all they can to fix these problems. I think this is the best career move […]
Author: juraj
What you’ll learn: Investment is not about picking the right financial product (like stocks or bonds or mutual funds) There’s an investment strategy that is based on your values and relates to other goals of your life – like elimination of stress There is a way to gain from disorder and chaos, not only go […]
My talk about biohacking from Paralelní Polis Hackers Congress 2015.
As you all probably know I am a fan of Bitcoin, but I am not that much of an alt-coin guy. What I mean by that is that I think that a main property of money is that it is universal means of exchange. It is good that you can store your wealth as savings […]
Chaos Communication Congress is the oldest hacker conference in the world and the largest of its kind in Europe. It takes place at the end of each year in Hamburg and brings current research in the field of security, networking and increasingly also politics and other topics related to “hacking” – the unconventional use of […]
Hacking the Czech Parliament via SMS A parliamentary drama of 223 actors The Czech art collective Ztohoven’ project “Moral Reform” was accomplished in collaboration with web security experts. Together they created the unique art concept of a mobile phone mass-hack. “Am I the only one who sees all the bad things we do? It’s impossible […]
For the past few years, I have been an iPhone user. At first I was jailbreaking, that got frustrating pretty soon, so I forgot about phone freedom, which for me means I can install any app I want, not any app that Steve or any other guy (however nice) approves of. I mainly missed a […]
There was an interview with me on a Slovak web about money and I decided to translate it to English (and do a few minor edits). Enjoy! Is Bitcoin a pyramid scheme? Certainly not, is more like gold. Juraj Bednar talks about the most popular virtual currency in the world. Mining and buying are two […]
If you have an intellectual minute, read Avoid news by Rolf Dobelli I highly agree. I have not watched TV for years now (we don’t have a subscription and I did not bother installing an antenna) and I’ve been practicing a healthy news diet for more than a year now. It really helps, especially with […]
This Tedx talk is about hacktivism in a modern world and it’s morality. It talks about Moral Reform, an artistic performance of Czech art group called Ztohoven. The setting: Czech Parliament. More about Moral Reform can be found in my previous blogpost or at the project’s page on Ztohoven.com. There is also an English translation […]