Oliver Reichenstein

Madness and Imagination

We all have reason to get mad about how universally ugly, dumb, and badly made things are around us. And while many of us are angry enough to take things into our own hands, unfortunately, making things better is not for everyone. It takes more than frustration, anger, and rage against the machine, it more than money, skill, and brains, to do things differently. It takes imagination.

My topic for this year's Beyond Tellerrand in Düsseldorf. https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2026

I wanted to quickly explain why school kids should learn markdown instead of MS Office, and ended up writing a major Epos on Markdown vs obsolete writing formats:

https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish

This is, I kid you not, about 1/6th of what I wrote. I'll publish the rest later.

I wanted to quickly explain why school kids should learn markdown instead of MS Office, and ended up writing a major Epos on Markdown vs obsolete writing formats:

https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish

This is, I kid you not, about 1/6th of what I wrote. I'll publish the rest later.