About Me

Hello there!

I grew up as a member of Germany's working class, in a small city on the North Sea coast.

After spending a year in North Carolina for high school and studying at an international campus university, I worked across corporate and startup environments in business, management, and tech for the better part of a decade.

Most of this time, I have spent trying to understand how things work and why they are the way they are. Once I had learned that knowledge is a network, meaning the more you know, the easier it is to learn something new, I never ran out of things worth learning about.

But a lot of what shaped how I see the world did not happen in an office or on the factory floor.

More than a decade of martial arts and football taught me more about teamwork, humility, and recognizing exploitative leadership than most management courses ever could. Growing up with anime like One Piece and Dragon Ball, as well as spending years listening to rap, gave me an early and healthy distrust of authority and unchecked power.

Gaming taught me more about strategy and system design than any corporate mentor. Following Formula 1 for most of my life taught me that obsessing over every detail and knowing which details actually matter are two very different skills.

Improving by a thousandth of a second only matters if you finish the race.

Nowadays, I try to learn as much as I can and write when I come up with something worth saying.