Category: Allgemein

  • The Sandpaper Year

    What Nobody Tells You About Following Your Passion As the year ends, I’m getting reflective. Specifically, about the gap between the dream and the doing. I moved to Sweden to pursue a master’s in strategic entrepreneurship. On paper: perfect. In reality: I’m working 20 hours a week as a Sales Manager for a German company…

  • The Age of the Artist Is Over. Welcome to the Era of the Curator.

    AI has automated execution. You used to need skill to bring an idea to life. Now you need taste. In a world where you can build anything in minutes, the real power lies in knowing what deserves to exist. The internet is already overflowing—overflowing-er now, if that’s possible. AI tools have turned content into a…

  • 15 Life Lessons at 24

    What I’ve Learned So Far How much wisdom can you accumulate by 24? Perhaps not a lifetime’s worth, but enough to share. Here’s my collection of insights—imperfect, evolving, and entirely my own. A wise friend I met at McDonald’s once told me that life becomes increasingly nuanced with age, and that advice is inherently personal.…

  • Lonelitude

    One person; enough to be alive.One less, and I’d be dead.Add just one more, and I am whole. Walking the fine line between solitude and loneliness,Swinging back and forth, like a pendulum. This world wasn’t made for me.Standing at the city’s edge,a glowing streetlight reflects in my pupils.The door swings open, and I leap out.

  • Linguistic Gems – Capturing the Inexpressable Across the Globe

    Rain drummed softly against the windows of the library as I wandered between the shelves, seeking refuge in words. One particular book stopped me—a dictionary of untranslatable words. A single word leaped off the page, striking me with its bittersweet resonance: Saudade—a Portuguese term that conveys a deep longing for something or someone absent, a…

  • In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish

    Rating: 10/10 My Thoughts: Mahmoud Darwish is a skillfull poet. In his final work, all the experience he accumulated throughout his lifetime add up to this masterpiece. Beautiful, unique, sensitive. Quotes: “Letters lie before you, so release them from their neutrality and play with them like a conqueror in a delirious universe.” “All letters are…

  • How to Live by Derek Sivers

    Rating: 9/10 My Thoughts Derek Sivers is one of my favourite internet people. In his book he offers 26 mutually mostly exclusive ways to live your life. Many elements resonated on a deeper level with me, while others sounded very wrong. Use this book as a compass and follow the elements that ring true to…

  • This is Marketing by Seth Godin

    You should read this book if you: Seek to create anything. It shifted my perspective on how marketing can be defined. This book is full of little gold nuggets of practical wisdom. Summary (9.5/10) If you see a way to make things better, than you have a marketing problem. The best way to complain is…

  • Smart Brevity by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz

    My Thoughts (7.5/10) Everybody should read this book. The authors make the point that most words are used to sound smart and waste time. They encourage you to be efficient and effective in your writing and focusing on the reader. Summary Even the most demanding high readers want fewer words. Listen to customers and data,…

  • The Serendipity Mindset by Christian Busch

    Rating: 6.5/10 My Thoughts: This book changed the way I think about how to be proactive in your own luck and how good social ties can significantly influence your life. We all like to have a plan and control. This is reflected in the way we form organizations and governments. The unexpected makes out the…