Things are never as good or as bad as they seem to be Hi everyone, for a moment imagine being a soldier at the eastern Front 1944 somewhere in the Ukraine. Thousands are dead, the landscape a wasteland and it seems that this madness will go on for years. If I told you that within 12 years from there […]
There is no doubt that the pandemic has and will change many areas of our lives. We will certainly not go back to the office of 2019 nor the movie theater, even education will change. Why? The old forms of doing things simply weren’t all that efficient . If people can be as productive from home, why […]
Behind the mask … Today one of my pet peeves occurred: someone aka a prospect was late. As in very late..think 40 minutes. I thought to myself: ” How can you be so unreliable? This will never amount to anything.” As I started training him, I heard my mother in the back of my head, […]
This newsletter was inspired by the manic trading action in GameStop , ticker GME. For those not living in the US, the short was heavily shorted, a bunch of small traders got together to drive the price from 13 $ to 430$. Rags to riches? Yes, a few people made a lot of money. But someone […]
What Friederich der Grosse can teach us in 2021 As you may have figured out, German history is a subject that is dear to me. So I jump at every opportunity to bring it into the newsletter or any random conversation as well. Friedrich’s birthday this past Sunday is as good of an excuse as any. So […]
There is a lot of talk about overcoming adversity and being positive these days but I do not find it all that actionable. Therefore I decided to compress my 2020 experiences into this newsletter. Disaster struck twice, as I lost the business and got sick with covid within 48h. Additionally, living in NY was ( for […]
In order to save the city, we had to destroy it” said a US Army Lieutenant after the battle of Hue during the Set offensive 1968. Without getting a morality debate about weighting US imperialism vs irregular VC warfare, we shall simply look at the statement as such. Destroy the city to save it. Save […]
Yes, We live in very dark and unpredictable times. But today I want to talk about things that really matter: the biceps bench as seen in the picture du jour. Because…biceps make everything better and the idea of building a massive steel structure just to train a vanity muscle is simply genius. No, this isn’t about 20 inch […]
50 years ago Willy Brandt did something remarkable. Obviously I am talking about him breaking protocol and kneeling at the memorial of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising 1944. The Warsaw ghetto uprising so some of the worst war crimes which was brutally put down by the SS Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger ( consisting of criminals , similar to the Proud Boys of […]
I had one of these masked elevator exchanges in my building, where my counterpart said ” We are not having a Christmas tree this year, not feeling festive” Being german my first reaction was : Tannenbaum muss. Immer. Then I thought about it and I could somewhat understand him. My mother passed around Christmas, so […]