Life What if… ? During the pandemic, a lot of rather moderate things happened in everyone’s life but sometimes you aren’t prepared for additional struggle in terms of human connections coming after the two-year-COVID-streak.
Thoughts Great minds discuss ideas - average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people The pandemic has shown that, sometimes, extraordinary efforts are needed to keep things running. While people separated in many ways, other consolidated to form an even stronger (work-)force, despite the general conditions and underlining Eleanor Roosevelt‘s original citation.
Work New Work: The Rise of the Triple Peak Day Recently I wrote about the fact that the model of hybrid work is here to stay. A new Microsoft-study also underlines that a 9 to 5 day is obsolete as well. Things have changed over the last years and so did the way we work in many genres. The way
Work Return to offices is announced, but the model of hybrid work is here to stay! COVID-19 has been one of the riders of the apocalypse during the last two years but, in one special way, it was a driver to change the way we work these days. The pandemic was our generation’s plague since appearing first in the end of 2019 and while it
Thoughts The only thing we have to fear on the planet is man How right Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung was with this phrase is mere frightening and perfectly fits into the horrible events of, now, 2022. I feel tired. I feel sad. Unhappy, sorrowful and stunned about the state of our world these days. Two years, we all have been in the
Life Carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders We always strive for more. Higher, faster, further - there seems to be no limit in everyday life. But, sometimes, we are just vulnerable humans with a - more or less - healthy soul. These days, Max Eberl, manager from my favorite soccer team Borussia Mönchengladbach, retired from his role
Music Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it: Silver Lake by Esa Holopainen Amorphis-mastermind and guitarist Esa Holopainen didn’t rest in 2021 and released his „Silver Lake“-solo debut in this dying year.
Life Thank you: Not all superheroes have capes! Yet another year with the „pandemic“-flag has nearly passed. A year with frustration, deprivations, disenchantment but also traces of hope in an unsteady future.
Music Wrong Direction It didn't need the great song entitled "Wrong Direction" from Amorphis' 2018 "Queen of Time"-album to sum many different situations up in one wording.
Facebook I finally escaped Facebook — and I am happy with that Some days ago, I had my thoughts on why Facebook won’t be „The Metaverse“. Now I made the break with the service after 17 years.
Life I am stuck: Writer’s Block or just Silly Season? After a week off in Norway, I still haven’t found my writing routine again. What has changed?
Life Life is vivid — try to live it that way! Experiencing the Black Metal-wave in the 90s, visiting Norway was surely one thing on my bucket list. Decades later, I set my foot on…
Space There are no passengers on spaceship earth — we are all crew „Space“ is a term that stands for many things but today, Marshall McLuhan’s statement is the best headline for reappointing our world of…
Thoughts You are not your resume, you are your work „Work“ is something that always took care of earning an honest penny but it’s also a story with ups and downs.
Death Death smiles at us all — all a man can do is smile back He is omnipresent and while it is part of our life in many ways, losing someone (or something) is always a struggle which isn’t on our…
Thoughts Is our Post-Covid-working life here to stay? With the pandemic, life has changed and so did the way we work and even the way we love.
Office The long hard way to the perfect home office setup Working from home is no kind of extravagance nowadays: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that, once work must or should be done remotely…
Thoughts Goodbye, 2020 — it just wasn’t a pleasure! In the meantime, the year with the probably biggest impact on the post-World War-generations is finally over. The new decade has just…
Sports Is running the ideal kind of sporting activity for me? I have always been this soccer guy. Medium-talented, but with the ability to take the ball and deal with it until I needed to get home as…
