A fisherman sits under a tree by the water and fishes. Then a businessman comes by and asks him what he’s doing. The fisherman says: “I fish something to eat for my family. Some days I catch little and some days I catch so much that I release the fish again.” The businessman replies: “If […]

When it came to the future of work, the prophets of the past swarmed. Karl Marx believed that it would be possible for anyone to “hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, practice livestock breeding in the evening and criticize after dinner … without ever becoming a hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic”. In turn, […]

This week, I changed my picture on Xing. Xing is a European career-oriented social networking site for enabling a small-world network for professionals. I thought about changing the pic, because I am about to change my job. So I thought that a new pic would match to a new job. The picture I made was okay, I was pretty satisfied with it although I did not use any make-up. Continue reading

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It’s Wednesday morning and I am sitting in a meeting at work. There are only a few people in the room but they are dressed in best clothes and they do feel very important I think. You can see this by the way they move and behave. The men do lean back in their chairs […]

I’ve always wanted to be part of the community. It used to be the smokers, I wanted to belong to. They were cool, just a very special mentality. Smoking is shit! That was never the question. In the old days, everything which was shit and which was forbidden, was cool. Being with the cool ones […]