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Hello there!
I am a Computer Scientist and Software Engineer from Germany.
Although I was born in Bonn, I grew up in Brussels, New Delhi and Berlin.
Residence, Work, Travel (work in progress)
The red dotes show the places I have visited.
City: Berlin, Germany (current)
Sources for map
Books I recently read
Disclaimer: If not otherwise stated, the notes of the following books are my own.
The ideas stated in the notes are from the authors of the mentioned books, if not otherwise stated.
I do not claim any of the ideas as my own and the purpose of these notes are foremost intended for myself.
Feel free to ask me for summaries or reviews of these books. I am happy to share them with you.
Current Reading Stack
- Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (Robert Musil, 1930) engl. The Man Without Qualities
2025
Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins (Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) (Milan Kundera, 1984) engl. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2024
- Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (Anil Seth, 2021)
- Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (Michael Lewis, 1989)
- Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You (Ali Abdaal, 2023)
- The Trading Game: A Confession (Gary Stevenson, 2024)
- The Brothers Karamazov (Братья Карамазовы)(Dostojewskij, 1879-1880), translated by David McDuff
2023
2022
- Ultralearning (Scott H. Young, 2019)
- Fast this way (Dave Asprey, 2021)
- Outliers (Malcom Gladwell, 2008)
- Digital Minimalism (Cal Newport, 2019)
- The Craft of Research (Booth, Colomb, Willliams, Bizup 2016)
- Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007)
- Fooled by Randomness (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2001)
Some Movies I adore
- Drive my car (ドライブ・マイ・カー Doraibu mai kā) by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021
- Beautiful Boy by Felix Van Groeningen, 2018
- 小武 (Xiao Wu, Pickpocket) by Jia Zhangke, 1997
- 버닝 (Burning) by Lee Chang-dong, 2018
- Annie Hall by Woody Allen, 1977
- Fritz the Cat by Ralph Bakshi, 1972
- Office Space by Mike Judge, 1999
- Sideways by Alexander Payne, 2004
- Mind Game (マインド・ゲーム, Maindo Gēmu) by Masaaki Yuasa, 2004
- Jojo Rabbit by Taika Waititi, 2019
- Twin Peaks (Mark Frost, David Lynch), 1990-1991
Music
You can look at what I am listening to at the moment:
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What to read next?
Recommendations I have gotten over the years.
- Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace, 1996)
- Notes from Underground (Dostojewskij)
- The Idiot (Dostojewskij)
- **We**( Russian:Мы, romanized: My) is anovel by Russian writer (Yevgeny Zamyatin)