scholarium continues an interdisciplinary tradition almost lost in academia: economics, psychology, geopolitics, technology and culture understood as one reality and tested against actual decisions. From this work grows a portfolio around technology, Bitcoin, privacy and places for location-independent people.01
Technology
Tools for knowledge work, ownership, communication and entrepreneurial agency.
The Viennese tradition
as a workshop.
scholarium continues an interdisciplinary tradition almost lost in academia: economics, psychology, geopolitics, technology and culture understood as one reality and tested against actual decisions. From this work grows a portfolio around technology, Bitcoin, privacy and places for location-independent people.
Scholien. Monthly marginal notes by Rahim Taghizadegan on the present, written in the mode of the Viennese school.
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Scholien remain the free entry point. The salon opens the protected circle.
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The Viennese tradition was once one of the West's sharpest instruments for understanding human action. Before it became an ideological label, it was an interdisciplinary program: economics, psychology, law, money and culture as one reality in which decisions have consequences and knowledge is dispersed.
One could turn this into lectures, curricula, certificates; the market for that is large and reliable. Theory worth anything, however, matures through real decisions: in companies, wealth allocation, publishing, Bitcoin, technology and the building of places. Whoever joins the salon enters this working context.
The shared salon.
The salon was never just an event. In the Viennese tradition it was an intimate room where theory, practice and culture met: conversation among people who had something to say and could listen to one another.
Today scholarium is no longer only a Viennese or Zug project. It is a growing network of places, companies, families and thinkers. The salon follows Rahim's routes: Vienna, Zug, Istria, Madeira, journeys and small circles where serious conversation becomes possible.
Participation begins with a one-time inscription. A portion of the conversations is recorded and shared privately so that good discussions can be revisited and deepened.
The threshold has a purpose. Candor needs a circle bound to one another: whoever speaks here does not mince words, and that bears no walk-in trade. Trust rests on reciprocity; the inscription is its form.
144 places · twelve by twelve
Salon place
CHF 1,440 · one-time inscription
One square, one place
- A place in the protected circle
- The salon's conversations, to listen again
- The digital library: twenty years of condensed reading
- Preferred invitations to seminars and journeys
Course fees are spent after the final session; memberships expire with the next invoice. The inscription, by contrast, acquires a place, and the place remains: personal, transferable, saleable, like a seat on the old exchanges. Its value hangs on the circle. The library grows, the recordings accumulate, the network thickens; the number of places stays at 144.
Three hours at a Zug law firm cost the same; what remains is a file note. What an objection at the right moment is worth, before a choice of residence, a sale, a major allocation, can never be priced in advance and is hard to overstate in hindsight. Whoever leaves one day passes the place on or sells it.
Travel, accommodation and special formats are reserved separately.
The salon includes seminars, courses, dinners, long conversations and private work on individual questions. It is a way to learn the Austrian school in its useful form: as an instrument for sober judgment.
The themes are practical without becoming banal: companies, education, career, family, place, wealth, technology and the decisions that determine how someone lives and acts.
Coaching rhetoric and guru poses do not last long in this circle; cheaper providers exist for both. Tested knowledge, lived experience and a network that holds in earnest are unfortunately not scalable. Hence the 144.
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Kontor
Thought becomes enterprise.
A kontor was a node: residence, warehouse, legal room and point of connection to a network larger than any single place. scholarium is a kontor in this sense.
From its educational work, scholarium develops a growing portfolio around technology, Bitcoin, privacy and infrastructure for location-independent people.
Portfolio fields
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Bitcoin
Infrastructure and holdings around hard money, self-custody and digital property.
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Privacy
Protected spaces for thought, wealth, communication and personal decisions.
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Places for the location-independent
Locations, hosts and networks for people who think flexibly about jurisdiction, family and work.
To approach the kontor as a shareholder, write to info@scholarium.at.
Rahim Taghizadegan is an Austrian economist, author and entrepreneur based in Zug. He represents a direct line of the Austrian school while working across technology, Bitcoin, education, investment and place-building.
The unusual point is the overlap of teaching and practice: he teaches entrepreneurship as an entrepreneur, is a successful investor, and builds the places others merely discuss.