Welcome! You are on my Now page – it contains those things about me that I would tell a friend I haven’t seen in a year. I am living in the Taunus hills northwest of Frankfurt, Germany, and have my focus on the following:
Now!
5 role models
Professionally
- flying the Boeing 787 Dreamliner for Lufthansa
- returning to my roots in photography
- working on financial freedom with trading & seasonal investment strategies, with an interest in rolling tiny houses
Personally
- finding my life partner
- selling my house
- building a life I can look back on in old age and say: “Fuck, that was awesome!”
Thoughts
- A large part of human communication is in LLM (we are chatbots!).
- “Getting lucky” is the sum of preparation, attitude, opportunity and action (possibly plus an undefined part of pure luck).
Health
- get into the shape of my life
- 365 days sober
- meditate daily
- more inspiration & lightness instead of order & stability
Reading
- The Case Against Reality (Donald Hoffman)
- Outline (Rachel Cusk)
- How to Change Your Mind (Michael Pollan)
- Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (The Letters of Richard P. Feynman)
Last updated: August 18th, 2025.