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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 dots show the places I have visited.
City: Berlin, Germany (current)
Sources for map
- Map tiles and data: OpenStreetMap
- Map rendering library: Leaflet
- Visited city coordinates from local file: cities.csv
Explore my personal Library, check out some Book summaries, or learn more About me.
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 stated otherwise.
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), English title: The Man Without Qualities
- Thinking in Systems (Donella H. Meadows, 2008)
- Demons (Dostojewskij, 1872), translated by Robert A. Maguire
- The Iliad (Homer, c. 8th century BC), translated by Robert Fagles
- The Odyssey (Homer, c. 8th century BC), translated by Robert Fagles
2025
- Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins (Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) (Milan Kundera, 1984), English title: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Outlive (Peter Attia, 2023)
- How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen (David Brooks, 2023)
- The Idiot (Dostojewskij, 1868-1869), translated by David McDuff
- Why We Should All Be Feminists (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2014), based on her TED Talk
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
- Dopamine Nation (Anna Lembke MD, 2021)
- Crime and Punishment (Dostojewskij, 1866), translated by David McDuff
- Scattered Minds (Gabor Maté, 2019)
- Animal Farm (George Orwell, 1945)
- On the Road (Jack Kerouac, 1957)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949)
- Indistractable (Nir M. Eyal, 2019)
2022
- Ultralearning (Scott H. Young, 2019)
- Fast This Way (Dave Asprey, 2021)
- Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell, 2008)
- Digital Minimalism (Cal Newport, 2019)
- The Craft of Research (Booth, Colomb, Williams, Bizup, 2016)
- Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007)
- Fooled by Randomness (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2001)
Some Movies I adore
- The Holdovers by Alexander Payne, 2023
- 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: SpotifyWhat 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), a novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Odyssey (Homer, c. 8th century BC), translated by Robert Fagles