Eigentlich hatte ich mir vorgenommen nichts über Corona / Covid19 zu schreiben, weil ich weder Virologe, Epidemiologe oder Politiker bin. Da mich die aktuelle Situation in Deutschland belastet und ich das irgendwie kanalisieren muss, schreibe ich meine Gedanken trotzdem nieder. Normalerweise schreibe ich meine Artikel auf Englisch. Da sich aber alles hier auf die spezielle…
Living single As long as you are single or in a partnership with no common household everything is easy money wise: you spend your money, your partner spends his or her money. Done! But wait! What happens, when you eat in a restaurant together? Do you split the bill or do you pay this time…
The Grades I’ve stolen this concept from the Clean Code Developer initiative. https://clean-code-developer.com/grades/ The main idea is that you don’t try every financial advice all at once but organize it into different stages from easy to hard.
Climate change, you know the drill. Believing in the 1% improvement thing / atomic habits I would start small but consistent. And also believing in the Management 3.0 experimenting culture I would run experiments. Some ideas: Household Switch to green electricity Buy more used / second hand stuff Especially books and furnitures Stop throwing away…
lernOS is an operating system for lifelong learning and learning organizations. Inspired by Scrum, Working Out Loud, Getting Things Done and Objective and Key Results VUCA world (Volatility, uncertainty,_complexity_and_ambiguity) Networking over isolation Trust over suspiciousness Openness over silos Participation over exclusion Agility over stability Levels Individual Team Organizations lernOs sprints lernOS is practiced in time…
The Rules 10h before sleep – no caffeine 3h before sleep – no more eating 2h before sleep – no more work 1h before sleep – no more tv / tablet 0 times snoozing the alarm clock in the morning So when I want to get to bed at around 22:00 (10pm) my schedule would…
In Thoughts on building a library I introduced you to the concept of a personal library. In this part I will guide you through some issues I had with sorting and cataloging my library Categories After buying a ton of books over the last couple of years, I hadn’t figured out yet how to categorize…
The Dark Ages The dark ages are the years between stopping playing with LEGO as a child and starting again to play again as an adult. In my case more than 20 years. Getting back to it When my older daughter turned 4, we decided to give her her first LEGO as a birthday present…
After building the LEGO Ideas Saturn V rocket I was curious about more real space sets. LEGO once had a set of the Curiosity Rover which isn’t available anymore and is insanely expensive when You want to buy it used. But thanks to Christoph Zeller I discovered a MOC on rebrickable.com Searching for parts Searching…
Sewing Machine When my wife told me that she wanted to buy a sewing machine I just build her one 🙂