Some of us are morning larks, some are night owls. How does this impact your productivity, and how can you test this? Here’s a tool to track your own data, and then make improvements based on it. — Morning person, evening person, afternoon person. Which one are you? You’ll have an intuitive answer to this. I, for example, am definitely a morning person, and rather useless anytime after 5pm. Thursdays are also by far more productive than any other day of the week.

“There are two types of wells: one is empty, and whenever some water goes into it, it’s directly emptied again. The other is full, overflowing with water, giving the people all the excess water that it has.” I don’t quite recall where I read this, but it stuck for me…

Going international is tough — yet there’s very little literature on it. Here’s some good stuff. — I started working as Head of International for a rapidly growing German EdTech startup 15 months ago. …

Instant gratification isn’t worth it. Don’t let it distract you from focusing on the long term. — As I’m typing these lines, I’m on an airplane. For the first time in 11 months. But unlike last year, when we had no idea that the second and third wave of COVID would be worse than the first one, we can now see the light at the end of…

Every location change leads to environment change. Every environment change leads to a changed you. — First impressions matter. It takes us about 100ms to make up our mind about a person. Once we’ve made up our mind, it’s hard to change our initial idea of the other person. A quote I’ve often heard from my grandmothers is: “you’ve become so big — but to me…

“some time” doesn’t exist — if you want to learn or do something, you need to plan for it now. — “What do you want to learn in life?” Enjoying the buzz from the second bottle of Rosé on a grey Saturday afternoon in Berlin, the question found me rather unprepared. “That’s a good fucking question.” Sitting at our kitchen table, a few friends and I started discussing all the things…

TL;DR: Great program, can recommend — but there are a few things you need to know. Read this before applying. — A girl matched me on Bumble the other day and messaged me: “actually, I just want to know about Entrepreneur First. I’m thinking about applying — should I?” I was intrigued. That was different from the usual “hi hows it going”. And I could relate. In May 2020, I asked…

2020 didn’t go as planned. Let’s make sure we learn from it and make 2021 better. — Last year, I published my Not-To-Do list for the first time. It’s my type new year’s resolution, because I believe that new year’s resolutions don’t work. The Not-To-Do List for 2020 Instead of trying to figure out what you should be doing in 2020, ask yourself: what should I NOT be doing?medium.com New year’s resolutions add to our life: do more of this, do more of that. But in reality, our lives are full already. We…

Input can’t be observed now, only output. Make it count. — Munich, March 2016. It’s a sunny, fresh spring day, and I’m enjoying the breeze in my hair as I’m biking to the office. Only one objective is on my mind: to convince my boss to let me work remotely for a week. The day before, I may or may not…