au revoir
I'm taking a break.
My first letter went out in 2013 and I've been relentless about the consistency with my letters and my summing up series. On the other hand I'm also relentless about scheduled breaks and space for creativity. So I wanted to let you know, that this is the last letter you'll get for a little while.
My letters have always been more on the tension between culture and technology than anything else. More and more I come to the conclusion that our main challenge for the 21st century isn't technology. It's culture.
And for me personally, it feels like a calling to leave a longer lasting impact.
It's worth mentioning that I still will be available for client work, coffee dates and discussing all the ideas on how culture & technology can work together to create a better world for all of us. So feel free to reach out, I'd love to hear from you!
Thanks a lot for your support and your feedback, it is heavily appreciated.
Talk soon.
previously
- the bullet hole misconception popular
- the lost medium popular
- culture over technology popular
- knowledge trumps iq
- summing up 112
- training wheels
- patterns
- summing up 111
- be considerate
- trust and lemonade
- summing up 110
- effective websites
- the 10,000 visitor fallacy
- summing up 109
- marketing secrets
- the 300 million dollar button
- summing up 108
- in data we trust
- broken websites
- summing up 107
- getting rid of humans
- digital laziness
- summing up 106
- black belts and silver bullets
- summing up 105 - the mother of all demos
- bicycles or tricycles
- you vs. i
- tyranny of choice
- summing up 104
- i loathe restaurant websites
- summing up 103
- most businesses' positioning is terrible
- another one bites the dust
- summing up 102
- summing up 101
- summing up 100
- summing up 99
- summing up 98
- summing up 97
- summing up 96
- summing up 95
- summing up 94
- summing up 93
- vdb17
- summing up 92
- summing up 91
- summing up 90
- summing up 89
- summing up 88
- summing up 87
- summing up 86
- razzle dazzle websites
- summing up 85
- your business in munich podcast
- summing up 84
- summing up 83
- humane websites
- summing up 82
- websites are processes
- summing up 81
- the lost medium - live
- summing up 80
- my voxxed days belgrade talk
- summing up 79
- summing up 78
- summing up 77
- on discoverability
- summing up 76
- summing up 75
- summing up 74
- summing up 73
- summing up 72
- on ditching css frameworks and preprocessors
- summing up 71
- we really don't know how to compute
- the interactive web
- logic or biology
- on advice
- the gervais principle
- the psychology of pricing
- change of affiliation
- empowering kids to create
- the web we lost
- information entropy
- all my blogs are dead
- project managers, ducks, and dogs marking territory
- lego's 1981 ad campaign
- building a princess saving app
- summing up is dead, long live summing up
- summing up 70
- summing up 69
- summing up 68
- sketchpad
- summing up 67
- the humane representation of thought
- summing up 66
- summing up 65
- networks without networks
- summing up 64
- summing up 63
- summing up 62
- summing up 61
- summing up 60
- summing up 59
- not just a label relaunch
- summing up 58
- summing up 57
- summing up 56
- summing up 55
- summing up 54
- summing up 53
- the help me help you dinner
- summing up 52
- summing up 51
- summing up 50
- summing up 49
- summing up 48
- summing up 47
- summing up 46
- summing up 45
- summing up 44
- summing up 43
- summing up 42
- summing up 41
- the internet regression
- summing up 40
- summing up 39
- hiring and firing for startups
- summing up 38
- pencil and paper thinking
- big ideas
- summing up 37
- summing up 36
- summing up 35
- the future of computing
- summing up 34
- summing up 33
- summing up 32
- summing up 31
- summing up 30
- summing up 29
- summing up 28
- summing up 27
- luck
- summing up 26
- summing up 25
- summing up 24
- summing up 23
- summing up 22
- summing up 21
- the bullet hole misconception
- summing up 20
- dear mr nokia
- summing up 19
- some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled
- summing up 18
- summing up 17
- do not be a front rudder
- summing up 16
- summing up 15
- gnome outreach program yearbook 2013
- summing up 14
- on why removing features makes people unhappy
- summing up 13
- summing up 12
- summing up 11
- quick tip for remembering names at, during and after meetings
- summing up 10
- summing up 9
- summing up 8
- summing up 7
- summing up 6
- summing up 5
- application specific passwords for dovecot
- summing up 4
- summing up 3
- summing up 2
- summing up 1
- jquery scramble plugin
- typical development processes of free and open source software projects
- the sane way of adding custom latex packages
- summer of code is over - a summary
- the gnome bazaar
- gnome outreach program yearbook 2012
- that is all folks
- gnome release schedule
- creating beautiful graphics with pgfplots
- return of the travelling gnome
- missing in action
- gnome screencasts - take six
- gnome screencasts - take five
- gnome screencasts - take four
- gnome screencasts - take three
- gnome screencasts - take two
- gnome screencasts
- hdr photography
- cheese was taken over by the portuguese
- opw is over
- gnome video effects gallery
- gnome contacts our ideas
- new gpg key
- some cheese awesomeness
- some devdoc hackfest tidbits
- the retroscope
- holiday
- a whole bunch of news
- cheese three zero
- offline
- www
- gnome summer of code goes sailing
- munich meets gnome
- summer of code is on
- graduation
- yes
- cheese 3.0
- head crash
- the new cheese tour
- announcing the zeitgeist hackfest 2009
- do gnome do
- bu-bu-bu-burst mode
- i am still enjoying gcds
- gcds, soc and a hackfest
- i am not david siegel either
- recent improvements in cheese
- the awesome gnome summer of code director ideas triaging meeting
- happy birthday
- speckhackfest is over
- muine is dead, long live muine
- it runs like a german tank
- speck hack fest registration open
- a step closer to world domination
- announcing the speck hack fest 2008
- getting ready for 2.24
- awesomeness
- re: getting things done
- cimi is my hero for today
- we sometimes accidentally do something great
- dear lazyweb
- im wondering...
- about that april fools joke (2)
- about that april fools joke
- bye bye cheese
- easter eggs
- some title
- 10 days left...
- hey...
- out of unstable hell
- dingdong, parcel service
- bugzilla bingo
- 3.. 2.. 1.. blog post!
- our christmas present for the gnome people
- getting stable
- new pants for cheese
- photo booth. say cheese
- cheese!
- gnome-changelog
- contact me!
- so long, and thanks for the cheese
- congratulations!
- news from the v4l-land
- some quotes from yesterday
- this is for the ubuntu guys
- the hulk is out
- its not only my birthday
- soc - part2
- soc - part1
- summer, hooray!
- so right, so right
- wohoo!
- know vim
- new...
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