When I started to blog again I thought about switching my CMS from GetKirby to Statamic but then again I changed my mind. I did some updates and improvements instead, that are quite handy. Updates for SEO I found this useful SEO plugin for GetKirby that I am now using to write better meta…

I am a bad manager. There, I said it. On the internet. But I am not hesitant to admit it. To myself and everyone else. Because you are probably a bad manager, too. And most of the time it’s just our human nature why we are bad managers. Because we constantly get in our own way. I am emotional Our b…

If you’re thinking about founding an agency or starting to freelance, chances are that you’ve started to read articles on Medium or other blogs as a guidance and source of inspiration. Around 95% of these articles advise you to try harder and work harder (night shifts) to make your dreams come tru…

With the digital revolution or the information age information is more accessible than ever. It also became easier to share information with others and to be one of the many voices of the choir that is called the internet. Before the internet if you wanted to read valuable content you bought a…

Social media and digital devices are the new lifestyle drugs of our time. It’s insanely hard to avoid them and it’s a struggle to say no. While becoming a father definitely helped me to shift my focus and attention towards the most important thing of my life I still struggle from time to time to jus…

Because I work in a company that carries the word digital in its name I thought I might have enough credibility to write a piece about digital transformation – whatever that is, right? If you are working in the media industry you very likely stumbled on the term digital transformation, heck you p…

This is not some philosophical post about design theory nor an essay about the roots of the term. I just want to add some thoughts on design, especially in the digital context and how I understand it and put it into practice. Let’s ask Wikipedia first: “Design is the creation of a plan or con…

Although I have more of a management role these days I am still very much involved in designing and building digital products. And I still like that a lot. When you call yourself a “creative” person it is hard to just stop creating. Design or digital design is quite different today than it was a few…

Basically right after I updated my website, I stopped blogging again. Same procedure as every year. Why is that so? Well, first of all I am the kind of person who wants to do several things simultaneously and second I became a father of a wonderful little girl, named Lilli, in November last year. …

Not much to share this week but you might notice some changes on this very site. I finally included my food blog here and will update it with more recipes in the next couple of weeks. Because I find it too stressful to write my recipes in English I will write the in German. If I hear a strong…