Reflecting and calming down are the most valueable things to do when being on vacation. Focusing on yourself and rethink your life will come automatically within hours. The good thing for me is to be pulled out of everyday life and routines. This leads to more space to re-think where I am right now and … More Life is better at the beach – my book list
Expertise is developed through hours of deliberate practise. One dimension is a challenging goal which relies on your nature of motivations. Who are you? Optimist Pessimist take more risks are more vigilant explore more options more detail oriented try something new? “Yes!” try something new? “Is it safe?” “can do” attitude failure is not an … More Optimist vs Pessimist
In our industrialized world where we live today with mobile phones, computers and much more technologies, a rational fear for individual survival is so far away and rare than ever before. So what are people afraid of? Failure! The fear of failure is a really one of the biggest poison in creative environments like building software. Celebration Grid … More About the Fear of Failure
The open gilded cage A colleague of mine @frankgollas inspired my working situation at Matrix42 in a perfect illustration: the open gilded cage. The door is open free to leave or stay. Image: Cover of “Bird in a Gilded Cage: A Suffragette Story” by Susan Griffin I am working at Matrix42 now since April 2006 and have … More Journey to be continued…
Number Crunching This blog got about 2,800 views in 2012. In 2012, there were 14 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 18 posts. There were 17 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 5 MB. That’s about a picture per month. The busiest day of the year was October 22nd with … More Blog Recap 2012: number crunching, attractions and personal summary
