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Our Purpose

Our purpose? We are living on a beautiful planet among billions of stars. This makes us often philosophize about the purpose of life. Are we here solely to be? Or are we here with a greater purpose? Maybe, there is no grand purpose. Our purpose is to be a human. Being a human on planet […]

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Finding Really Good Books

Finding really good books is a multi-billion dollar market. Think about it for a moment: How do you find new books to read? I assume it will either be through: The best way to find a new good book is through a recommendation. You are conversing with a real person, he understands your situation, your […]

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Global Citizen Journalists

For the last two years, I thought about setting up a global network of citizen journalists. One journalist per country. Every journalist is reporting on what is happening in his country on a monthly basis – covering everything from problems and corruption to progress and opportunities. Today, it’s easy to recognize the problems of one’s […]

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Force and Authenticity

When you do something, there are always two ways of doing it. Either you have to force yourself, or it feels natural to you. If you force yourself to do something, then what you do is not authentic to you. People sense this inauthenticity, which makes everything you do even harder. When you really, from the core […]

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Ambition Magnets

Over the last two years, we’ve seen a massive shift towards remote work. Employees were forced to work from home. Just as executives, lawyers, and civil servants. Many enjoyed and learned to love working remotely from where they want to work – not from where they have to work. This shift towards working remotely also […]

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Times Ahead

It is unbelievable how much fun we had and how worry-free we were living between 2009 and 2020. I’ll never forget the worryless nights and parties as a teenager. I’ll never forget the limitless travels between 2013 and 2016. The good old days. Now we have some hideous years ahead… To evolve better into the […]

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My Learnings from the Corona Pandemic

If there is one thing the corona virus taught me so far, it is that time is an extremely precious asset. Unlike money, you cannot make more time. Wasting time simultaneously means wasting life. And the corona virus pandemic taught me greatly how much life time we are carelessly wasting.

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Did Humanity Give Up On Greatness?

It’s photos like this – images of the venus’ surface – which make me realize that we live in a super pessimistic time.

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Greed Hinders Innovation and Progress

If there is one thing which is slowing down our human progress what would it be? I propose that human greed is a significant obstacle to innovation and human progress.

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Dear HR-Historians, It Is Not The Employees Fault

“It is shocking, how many people start applying for new jobs only after six, seven, or nine months. It is also terrifying that many have barely survived more than one or two years in other jobs. Are they all misjudged geniuses?”