Category Archives: Sharing my thoughts
I’m a Narcissist and I love myself for that. (Oh wait! Was it redundant?)
As a result of my rather highly active social media life, I often hear comments related to my social media behavior from friends, acquaintances and online followers. Recently, due to some above-average amount of travelling in my agenda, the frequency of my activities on social media was also above (my) average, which led to some…
Jewish vs. Bacon: The Religious Man in Me
Born to a Jewish mother and raised in a rather conservative Jewish family, being “Jewish” has always been my identity as far as the answer to the question “What is your religion?” is concerned. After having gone through Jewish school in my childhood, and voluntarily studied Talmudic Law and Ethics as a young adult, I…
Master of Happiness: My Encounter with a Syrian Refugee & Fighting Tragedy: A (Super-)Human Trait
And the weekend began. It was Saturday 6.44AM when I boarded the train from Vienna to Munich carrying in my backpack nothing more than my camera and the traditional Bavarian outfit „Lederhosen” (leather shorts) on my way to the Oktoberfest, Germany’s largest and internationally-known annual beer festival. After boarding the train, I opened my computer…
How do I manage my time? A time-bending view on time management.
Friends and other people who follow me on social media often ask me: “How do you manage your time?” referring to my apparently restless lifestyle and routine which combines a full-time office job, a freelance home-based job, a distance learning degree program at a University of Applied Sciences, running a social initiative (the Free Hugs…
Charity, Productivity, Poverty and Gift-giving – the Intersection.
Helping people in need is an authentic and noble sentiment among people. Be it through acts of kindness, charity, volunteering, or any other means of providing something of value for people who lack that what we possess in excess or have at least enough to share. Many thoughts cross my mind on the subject “charity”:…
What is the true value of a life?
The last couple of days I’ve walked to work facing the same headlines in the newspapers. All of them had it printed in large: “900 dead”. The refugees’ catastrophe in the Mediterranean Sea has cost 900 lives! [And as I write it, I can’t avoid the goose bumps and the urge to shed a tear…
Social Anxiety, Self-Confidence and Marketing.
Social Anxiety is one of those things I only managed to give a name to after I figured out that it was more than just simple inner voices transforming my social freedom into a social challenge. Having overcome a time in my life, in which I made use of all kinds of extreme techniques to…
Life rule: you only matter for as long as you give others what they want from you
“You only matter for as long you give others what they want from you” – this is one of these hard-core rules of life I’d be happier living without, BUT, there is a way to make this down-side of life turn it into a source of rewards. I once read in a parable that I…
Gays: a valuable proposition for business
According to scientists and experts, one out of ten individuals in the world is a homosexual. The statistics mean that worldwide, approximately 700.000.000 men and women are gay! This really invites for a second thought the next time someone calls the gay community ‘a minority’, doesn’t it? After all, SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION people are more…
3D Printing: Economies of Scale turning into Economies of Ideas
3D means a lot! One often reads that James Cameron’s movie “Avatar” was ‘the’ break-through into the 3D era. While it might have indeed started a ‘3D-revolution’ for both the whole entertainment industry and consumer markets, technologies that broke the barrier of the three-dimensional space (3D), such as Avatar’s ability to create 3D simulations on…