Quite a quiet blog

Jan 29

Bye bye, Hamburg!

Bye bye, Hamburg!

Jan 27

Hello Elbe!

Hello Elbe!

Jan 21

Lovely design, Creative Market, but probably not the most popular e-mail example nowadays.

Lovely design, Creative Market, but probably not the most popular e-mail example nowadays.

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Jan 18

Office Lola is just lovely.

Office Lola is just lovely.

Jan 15

Minimizing the time to market of just about every piece of the puzzle: Roughly a weekend’s design work from start to finish for all views. And development has already started—looking forward to an App Store release in the next couple of weeks hopefully!

Minimizing the time to market of just about every piece of the puzzle: Roughly a weekend’s design work from start to finish for all views. And development has already started—looking forward to an App Store release in the next couple of weeks hopefully!

Sometimes it’s just that simple.

Sometimes it’s just that simple.

Jan 14

“Blogging isn’t writing, it’s graffiti with punctuation.” — Some dinosaur of a doctor talking in Contagion.

Jan 13

Most popular cities where Eisenhower users come from.

Most popular cities where Eisenhower users come from.

Ever since we introduced our Facebook Social Graph integration, friends keep complaining about my musical taste. How can that be? Just for the record: I’d rather call it “broad”. 

Ever since we introduced our Facebook Social Graph integration, friends keep complaining about my musical taste. How can that be? Just for the record: I’d rather call it “broad”. 

Jan 11

“Every click is a wish,
every link is a promise.” — Recently quoted by Mark Rees in a discussion on user experience.

Jan 09

Why you should always keep a copy elsewhere

Startups are like people: They are born, they grow, and when they die, they take all saved memories with them to their graves. Except these memories are not really theirs, but yours instead.

Jan 07

“The beauty of the Amazon.com making-doors-into-desks tradition was not that it was cheaper (it probably wasn’t), but rather the mentality that it engendered that Amazon was a place that didn’t waste money on fancy furniture. In its early days, Intrepid Learning Solutions used to give out “Scrappy Awards” to employees who demonstrated superhuman abilities to save money.” — David Cohen and Brad Feld in Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup (Page 96)

Jan 01

Japan in The Big Picture.

Japan in The Big Picture.

Dec 29

With snowflakes on YouTube even Warren Buffett is funny.

With snowflakes on YouTube even Warren Buffett is funny.