When you’re 18, you have it all figured out. You’re about to graduate from high school (if you still had the blessing of 9 years of secondary school education in Germany), or have already graduated. You’re in the middle of a new life, and everyone around you has it figured out too. Except for the…
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Sometimes, we take our knowledge for granted. When moving in certain social circles, some stuff is just very basic knowledge. As an entrepreneur, I sometimes forget that I too, at some point, didn’t have the knowledge I had at some point. Recently, I talked to a friend of mine who’s just started to found his…
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Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 37 seconds So you know how they say: “when you don’t know what to write about, just start typing and don’t stop.” Fair enough. That’s what I’ll do. (Note: this whole post was written in one setting, without review or anything like that. Just words as they kept coming Well, today’s…
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Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 53 seconds Frankfurt Airport, roughly two weeks ago. We’re waiting for our flight to Rome. As we are trying to board, everything halts and we are ushered back into the terminal. A thunderstorm is coming up and holy shit, it’s huge. No departure for us – yet. Out of boredom,…
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Estimated reading time: 3 minutes, 7 seconds Cigarettes are shit. There is not a single good thing about them. They’re expensive, they make you smell like an ashtray, heavily impact your athletic ability and worst of all, they kill you. To a rational mind, there is absolutely no fucking point in smoking a cigarette. Want…
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Estimated reading time: 4 minutes, 45 seconds 700,000 hours – what are you gonna do with them? Let’s do some math. 80 * 365 * 24 = 700,800. Cool – anyone can do that. Thanks for reading! Or wait. What did we just calculate there? I was wondering how many hours my life would actually…
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As a short intro, I’d like to apologize for not posting anything in roughly three months. During that time, I’ve been working on my Bachelor’s thesis getting the “official” part of my life straight. Since that involves a lot of writing, I lacked motivation to write even more in my time off. You might also…
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Estimated reading time: 5 Minutes, 30 Seconds ONCE UPON A TIME … Let me tell you about a man that highly inspires me. He is a motivational speaker, who is doing his PhD at the University of Michigan right now. He is is also the owner of a huge motivational speaking business, performing at major…
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Estimated reading time: 4 minutes, 45 seconds Welcome to an experimental post! This article is going to be very different from what you usually get to see on this blog. It is about one of my more secret passions – American Football. I remember just having arrived in the USA for my exchange year in…
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“I don’t have time.” Oh, I hate this phrase with a passion. Why? Because it’s a lie. Every single person on this planet is the owner of exactly 24 hours per day. Every single person on the planet has the same amount of time. While time may pass slowly or quickly, depending on your state…
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