Entrepreneurs need better managerial skills than I could have imagined: My personal worst-practice example. — We were heading back from a trade fair where we had spent a few days trying to get some leads to feed our CRM. We were exhausted and heading back to Berlin. At some point, we came across that burger joint, which offers crowns to their younger, juvenile or engaged-in-a-drinking-game…

Social networks are too toxic for mankind. — Let me avoid clickbait: The one social network, but technically it is an antisocial network, which I still use is LinkedIn. LinkedIn and how I handle it I use it for professional reasons since this is where my clients find me. Professional reasons are the only reason I would use these toxic platforms. If you ever…

How I made USD 200 in just two hours on medium — Most posts like these lack a basic understanding of economics. — The my article went viral post I am genuinely happy for people if they have an article that performs well. Many share their enthusiasm by writing a little post about it, which typically reads somewhat like this: I recently had my first article go viral I have written a bunch of articles that did not go…

Don’t just hate them back, they are stuck without even noticing it. We should feel sorry for them. — Racism and xenophobia are two brutal ways of creating distinctions between people based on where they are from or what they look like. They often go hand in hand: You are not from here and/or look different to the decent people from here. Therefore, I have a bunch of misconceptions…

I started to collect trash from the beach where I regularly surf since I could not stand it anymore — And the lazy seagulls would not do it. — The Philosophy Be the change you want to see in the world is, as far as I know, a quote from Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian revolution. As is usual with Internet quotes, this one does not hold up to reality either. I looked it up to find that the quote…

I have been working in the industry for 11 years now, most of it self-employed. I learned a thing or two so let me share some observations. — Thankfully, the old days, when clients (at least in Germany) would expect you to be on their premises four days out of five are over. No more early Monday morning flights and late nights back on Thursday. …

Have you ever heard that young people are great at learning, and as you get older, it becomes increasingly hard? — I started to learn Portuguese in my mid-thirties. The reason is simple: I am kind of moving to Portugal. I spend a lot of time here, and if I ever settled down again, I would probably do it here. The Portuguese are very good at speaking English. Stereotypes would have…

I spent a few weeks here and love it — Here is why. — On the Northernmost edge of the Portuguese coast lies a little town called Vila Praia de Ancora, and I fell for it. The climate and the landscape The further north you go in Portugal, the greener and rainier the climate becomes. That is why the northern coast is called costa verde, the green coast. And…

The capital of Senegal is a great location for the slightly more adventurous and those who have a taste for Africa. — The Western world (where I am from) talks about Africa in terms of crisis, corruption, exploitation, child labour and child soldiers, tropical diseases, hunger, climate catastrophe, etc. It seems like every problem on Earth takes a liking to this continent and decides to stick around.