- If it’s raining out, take the dog for a run.
- End the meeting a few minutes early and go for a stroll with the team.
- Instead of an afternoon snack, consider some sunshine.
Montag, 9. Dezember 2019
Go Outside
Before you make a big decision, go for a walk around the block.
Dienstag, 3. Dezember 2019
Gall's Law
Reflections on perbit Insight before 2020.
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system."
However he did add a qualifier "A simple system may or may not work."
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system."
However he did add a qualifier "A simple system may or may not work."
See also Systemantics.
Montag, 11. November 2019
Off Stage
We don’t notice people when they’re not in front of us. Of the tens of thousands of people, familiar and famous, that we know, we spend precious little time concerned about the ins and outs of their day. And more poignantly, the same is true for the way the world ignores our day to day as well.
Humans’ selfish survival instinct is to be aware of whoever is on stage in front of us, and then to move on to the next urgency. It’s a trap to believe that anyone in the world is as concerned about the thoughts in your head as you are.
Copernicus was right –the world doesn’t revolve around us. Most of the time, the world doesn’t even notice.
That doesn’t make your narrative less important but it’s a useful reminder that just about everyone would appreciate being noticed a little more. Particularly when they’re off stage.
-Seth Godin, again.
Donnerstag, 31. Oktober 2019
Rugby World Cup Final
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| Faf de Klerk |
The Springboks' route to the World Cup final has been characterised by the strength of their hulking forwards and dominant physical displays.
But directing the Bok brutes around the pitch in both attack and defence has been Faf de Klerk, the blond-locked, box-kicking number nine (Scrum half).
Footage of De Klerk going nose to nose with Wales lock Jake Ball, who stands 25cm taller than him, went viral on social media during the match.
"We're great friends. It was just a nice moment between us," joked De Klerk afterwards. A case of the 'smallest guy on the pitch' leading the fight. In a South Africa side packed with giants, it is the 5ft 7in scrum-half who stands out.
Montag, 28. Oktober 2019
MONEY, COMMUNITY and PROPERTY
Willi Haller aus vergangenen Tagen, zum Nachdenken (long read):
Without a doubt, money is one of man's greatest inventions. Without money as a means of exchange, a society based on division of labor, as it is today, spread all over the world, would be inconceivable. However, with its role as medium of exchange, its purpose cannot be adequately described.
The second, basically equally great function of money is that it can be easily saved and that it can be capitalised as financial assets. This saving and the consequent relinquishment of consumption may be problematic for some representatives of unlimited growth. However, it is indispensable because there are many projects which can not be financed from current income and often require the cooperation of many to finance them.
The absolutely necessary criticism of our financial behaviour is therefore not directed against money par excellence, but against the way in which we deal with accrued capital, to whom we make it available and under what terms this is conducted.
The pure doctrine proclaims that money is not a commodity but based on trust and obligations and is therefore without obligation to claim an accrual, that is, interest. This is quite true, especially since most cash currencies have no gold security and their value is ensured almost entirely by trust.
There is a problem with interest, both in principle and in the way the interest rate is set. A fundamentalist criticism would flatly reject the application of interest. It relies on the Bible (which rejects interest rates among its peers) and the Koran (which represents the same line as the Bible). As is well known, Jesus goes even further than the so-called Old Testament. He simply says: lend without expecting anything in return. The pros and cons of interest could be arguably disputed. The fact is that it has a downright murderous offspring called compound interest. It ensures that there is exponential growth in the absence of debt service or lack of continued consumption, leading to an explosive increase in money. If, for example, a gift of ten thousand dollars in the form of a government bond was given to a baby a few years ago, its value accumulates to around one million dollars if the person does not consume the credit and its increment until retirement age. The big debt crisis of the so-called Third World has its roots here.
Out of this emergency, especially with reference to Silvio Gesell, the Nestor of interest-free or negative interest rates in recent times, to demand a complete renunciation of interest, goes past the realities. Not only are billions of dollars being raised daily by all sorts of banks and private individuals but this is specifically linked to the conditions for paying interest. In addition, almost everyone claims an annual growth for their monetary assets which goes beyond inflation compensation.Our consciousness demands this, and the zeitgeist seems to be in agreement.
Regrettably, it is usually overlooked that our interest-rate attitude is related to both a demand for and promotion of separateness by us all, an individualization that strives for every attainable financial security, above all for old age. A renouncement of this protection presupposes a solidarity community which really deserves to be called such. Unfortunately, it is virtually non-existent these days.
Much more problematic is the form of fixing interest rates practiced almost everywhere today. It is based on the so-called “credit rating” and ranges from AAA 1 for the best, most creditworthy addresses down to the loan seekers who are not creditworthy at all and therefore are not granted loans. The interest rate to be set depends on the creditworthiness, ie the credit rating. It is the lowest among the AAA 1 addresses and grows on the way down so that actually, in the end, those who pay the highest interest are the ones who need money most and vice versa. The old adage is thus confirmed: Those who do not need money can borrow as much as they like for the lowest rate of interest and those who need it most urgently don’t get a penny.
There is one last point to mention about money. We have a downright sacred awe for everything related to money. It’s not just that we do not or rarely talk about it but it is also virtually exempt from tax. Apart from an insurance tax [in Germany], the entire financial system is tax-exempt, while all sales of goods or other services are subject to value added or sales tax. It is a matter of urgent necessity to apply a value added tax of at least 0.1% on all stock exchange transactions and all bank transactions. This would not only open up a huge source of revenue for the states, but would also reduce the risk of speculative transactions everywhere.
It is usually overlooked during the whole discussion about money and capital, that the capital employed per job has grown tremendously over the past decades. According to figures from the German Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden, today we need an average of around a quarter of a million marks (or roughly half in euros) to finance a job with all the trimmings. As a rule, employees do not have enough financial assets (or credit) to do so. Outside investors are therefore indispensable. So how are they going to be paid or compensated?
Let’s move on to the question of property. Again, there are no simple black and white answers. Property, as we know it today, was probably created in the first half of the last millennium BC. Before that, everything belonged to everyone, so it was common property and private property was largely unknown.
This changed with the tremendous upheavals of the time, which were mainly due to climatic conditions and which lead to the private ownership of land. For example, private ownership of land was largely unknown among the ancient Teutons. There was the commons, the parish common and the fief. That seemed to be essentially enough. Today it has become an almost sacred cow for Westerners and one which has to be defended under all circumstances. It seems that there is the need for a differentiated approach.
Nobody seems to seriously question private property for the objects of everyday use. In home ownership, however, this is different and even more so with land ownership. For Westerners, owning a home seems to take on the role of a second skin. Private property with home ownership is therefore probably morally harmless, even though ownership, for example, through a foundation and the lifelong right to reside might seem more appropriate. It becomes problematic only when home ownership exceeds its own needs for the purpose of serving investment (and tax savings). The same applies to ownership of land.
Nobody will seriously question the ownership of resources for the founder and original entrepreneur. Again, as with many property issues, it will only be problematic for the first or second consecutive generation because they have contributed little or nothing to the emergence and preservation of wealth. The most problematic is undoubtedly ownership of more or less large amounts of money that are not used to cover one’s personal cost of living. It then only serves to increase and exercise power, for which, as a rule, it is poorly qualified and does little good for the debtor and the general public, often even harming it. The ideal here would undoubtedly be to place the sums which exceed one’s own financial needs into a foundation in order to use them to to meet part of the capital requirements of the economy and the rest of society. The keyword for this is called “neutralisation of capital”.
W. Haller (2002)
Without a doubt, money is one of man's greatest inventions. Without money as a means of exchange, a society based on division of labor, as it is today, spread all over the world, would be inconceivable. However, with its role as medium of exchange, its purpose cannot be adequately described.
The second, basically equally great function of money is that it can be easily saved and that it can be capitalised as financial assets. This saving and the consequent relinquishment of consumption may be problematic for some representatives of unlimited growth. However, it is indispensable because there are many projects which can not be financed from current income and often require the cooperation of many to finance them.
The absolutely necessary criticism of our financial behaviour is therefore not directed against money par excellence, but against the way in which we deal with accrued capital, to whom we make it available and under what terms this is conducted.
The pure doctrine proclaims that money is not a commodity but based on trust and obligations and is therefore without obligation to claim an accrual, that is, interest. This is quite true, especially since most cash currencies have no gold security and their value is ensured almost entirely by trust.
There is a problem with interest, both in principle and in the way the interest rate is set. A fundamentalist criticism would flatly reject the application of interest. It relies on the Bible (which rejects interest rates among its peers) and the Koran (which represents the same line as the Bible). As is well known, Jesus goes even further than the so-called Old Testament. He simply says: lend without expecting anything in return. The pros and cons of interest could be arguably disputed. The fact is that it has a downright murderous offspring called compound interest. It ensures that there is exponential growth in the absence of debt service or lack of continued consumption, leading to an explosive increase in money. If, for example, a gift of ten thousand dollars in the form of a government bond was given to a baby a few years ago, its value accumulates to around one million dollars if the person does not consume the credit and its increment until retirement age. The big debt crisis of the so-called Third World has its roots here.
Out of this emergency, especially with reference to Silvio Gesell, the Nestor of interest-free or negative interest rates in recent times, to demand a complete renunciation of interest, goes past the realities. Not only are billions of dollars being raised daily by all sorts of banks and private individuals but this is specifically linked to the conditions for paying interest. In addition, almost everyone claims an annual growth for their monetary assets which goes beyond inflation compensation.Our consciousness demands this, and the zeitgeist seems to be in agreement.
Regrettably, it is usually overlooked that our interest-rate attitude is related to both a demand for and promotion of separateness by us all, an individualization that strives for every attainable financial security, above all for old age. A renouncement of this protection presupposes a solidarity community which really deserves to be called such. Unfortunately, it is virtually non-existent these days.
Much more problematic is the form of fixing interest rates practiced almost everywhere today. It is based on the so-called “credit rating” and ranges from AAA 1 for the best, most creditworthy addresses down to the loan seekers who are not creditworthy at all and therefore are not granted loans. The interest rate to be set depends on the creditworthiness, ie the credit rating. It is the lowest among the AAA 1 addresses and grows on the way down so that actually, in the end, those who pay the highest interest are the ones who need money most and vice versa. The old adage is thus confirmed: Those who do not need money can borrow as much as they like for the lowest rate of interest and those who need it most urgently don’t get a penny.
There is one last point to mention about money. We have a downright sacred awe for everything related to money. It’s not just that we do not or rarely talk about it but it is also virtually exempt from tax. Apart from an insurance tax [in Germany], the entire financial system is tax-exempt, while all sales of goods or other services are subject to value added or sales tax. It is a matter of urgent necessity to apply a value added tax of at least 0.1% on all stock exchange transactions and all bank transactions. This would not only open up a huge source of revenue for the states, but would also reduce the risk of speculative transactions everywhere.
It is usually overlooked during the whole discussion about money and capital, that the capital employed per job has grown tremendously over the past decades. According to figures from the German Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden, today we need an average of around a quarter of a million marks (or roughly half in euros) to finance a job with all the trimmings. As a rule, employees do not have enough financial assets (or credit) to do so. Outside investors are therefore indispensable. So how are they going to be paid or compensated?
Let’s move on to the question of property. Again, there are no simple black and white answers. Property, as we know it today, was probably created in the first half of the last millennium BC. Before that, everything belonged to everyone, so it was common property and private property was largely unknown.
This changed with the tremendous upheavals of the time, which were mainly due to climatic conditions and which lead to the private ownership of land. For example, private ownership of land was largely unknown among the ancient Teutons. There was the commons, the parish common and the fief. That seemed to be essentially enough. Today it has become an almost sacred cow for Westerners and one which has to be defended under all circumstances. It seems that there is the need for a differentiated approach.
Nobody seems to seriously question private property for the objects of everyday use. In home ownership, however, this is different and even more so with land ownership. For Westerners, owning a home seems to take on the role of a second skin. Private property with home ownership is therefore probably morally harmless, even though ownership, for example, through a foundation and the lifelong right to reside might seem more appropriate. It becomes problematic only when home ownership exceeds its own needs for the purpose of serving investment (and tax savings). The same applies to ownership of land.
Nobody will seriously question the ownership of resources for the founder and original entrepreneur. Again, as with many property issues, it will only be problematic for the first or second consecutive generation because they have contributed little or nothing to the emergence and preservation of wealth. The most problematic is undoubtedly ownership of more or less large amounts of money that are not used to cover one’s personal cost of living. It then only serves to increase and exercise power, for which, as a rule, it is poorly qualified and does little good for the debtor and the general public, often even harming it. The ideal here would undoubtedly be to place the sums which exceed one’s own financial needs into a foundation in order to use them to to meet part of the capital requirements of the economy and the rest of society. The keyword for this is called “neutralisation of capital”.
W. Haller (2002)
Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2019
10 Jahre BST Gesundheitszentrum
Die Anzahl der Behandlungskabinen ist von fünf auf vierzehn gestiegen.
Des Weiteren wurden Duschen gebaut, eine Halle für unsere Reha-Kurse etabliert und schließlich der Speedcourt fertig gestellt. Dank neuer Aufzüge wurde das BST Gesundheitszentrum zudem barrierefrei. Darüber hinaus haben wir unseren Fokus erweitert und behandeln mittlerweile auch Kinder, Kleinkinder und Babys. In diesem Zusammenhang erfreut sich die Kindersporthalle großer Beliebtheit.
Mit unserem Konzept sind wir zu einer der bekanntesten Anlaufstellen in Sachen Physiotherapie in Solingen geworden.
Im BST Gesundheitszentrum sind Menschen tätig, die mit viel Herzblut bei der Sache sind und für die die Patientenarbeit nicht nur ein Beruf ist, sondern eine Leidenschaft. Das versuchen wir jeden Tag aufs Neue zu vermitteln, gemäß unserem Credo „Wenn unser Team glücklich ist, sind unsere Patienten es auch“. Dabei machen wir keinen Unterschied zwischen Patienten die einen einzelnen Termin bei uns wahrnehmen und solchen, die dauerhaft unsere Unterstützung benötigen.
BST steht für „Bewegung, Sport, Therapie“. Mein Team und ich sind stolz, Ihnen nach 10 Jahren alle Facetten der physiotherapeutischen Behandlung wie klassische Massage Therapie, Krankengymnastik, Elektrotherapie, Manuelle Therapie, Lymphdrainage und vieles mehr anbieten zu können und stets daran zu arbeiten, uns fachlich und menschlich weiterzuentwickeln. Damit wir unsere Ziele auch weiterhin erreichen orientieren wir uns sowohl an unserer Erfahrung und unseren Werten als auch vor allem an Ihnen und Ihren Bedürfnissen, liebe Patienten. In diesem Sinne freuen wir uns auf viele weitere schöne und spannende Jahre mit Ihnen.
-Marlon Horvath & Team
Dienstag, 1. Oktober 2019
Ways to Grow
Ideas for 2020 on Ways to Grow. (Thanks Joe!)
A checklist to get me started —you can either do the same thing or a different thing…
More of the same:
- Persist
- Get the word out
Doing something different:
- Change an element of what you do
- Raise your prices
- Lower your prices
- Make it better
- Tell a different story
- Serve a different customer
- Enter a new segment
- Change the downstream effects of your work
- Earn trust
- Make bigger promises
- Organize
- Get better clients
- Do work that matters to someone
Mittwoch, 25. September 2019
Patti Smith's new book
Patti in her 2016 memoir Year of the Monkey, on dreams, loss, life and love. And reaching 70.
"Marcus Aurelius asks us to note the passing of time with open eyes. Ten thousand years or ten thousand days, nothing can stop time, or change the fact that I would be turning seventy in the Year of the Monkey. Seventy. Merely a number but one indicating the passing of a significant percentage of the allotted sand in an egg timer, with oneself the darn egg. The grains pour and I find myself missing the dead more than usual. I notice that I cry more when watching television, triggered by romance, a retiring detective shot in the back while staring into the sea, a weary father lifting his infant from a crib. I notice that my own tears burn my eyes, that I am no longer a fast runner and that my sense of time seems to be accelerating… I try to be more aware of the passing hours, that I might see it happen, that cosmic shift from one digit to another. Despite all efforts February just slips away, though being a leap year there is one extra day to observe. I stare at the number 29 on the daily calendar, then reluctantly tear off the page. March first."
"This is what I know. Sam is dead. My brother is dead. My mother is dead. My father is dead. My husband is dead. My cat is dead. And my dog who was dead in 1957 is still dead. Yet still I keep thinking that something wonderful is about to happen. Maybe tomorrow. A tomorrow following a whole succession of tomorrows… No one knows what is going to happen… not really."
Donnerstag, 29. August 2019
Work is a hobby
One of the reasons I still go into work every day is that I still want to try being a software developer in an artistic context.
I've always seen software as a creative thing, like writing, painting or sculpting, but most of my friends can't seem to process this idea.
I've worked in Dublin, Trossingen, Altenberge and with customers all over Europe from Paris to Belgrade. Now when asked what I'm doing I get blank stares when I say I create software as an individual.
But why do you work?
I work for myself.
Who do you sell it to? I don't sell it.
I do make some money from time to time, by selling something I've created, but most of what I create doesn't make money, the opposite, it costs me money to make it.
I got lucky with Wolfgang and perbit, the company grew and our products were successful and we sold them for a long time to companies all over Germany. I enjoyed being a manager and was able to do the job, sort of, but now every day when I wake up, I'd rather create something than manage something. I don't like being responsible for other people's careers any more. So my manager days are over. It worked well for a long time and the money we made has made it possible for me to live a creative life, which is where I am most comfortable now.
I make software for others. More recently I've made products only for myself, with good results. Something new happens when you relax the assumption that software has to be easy to learn. People have a hard time understanding that you can do art with materials such as compilers, servers, editors, networks, display screens, etc. In general they have no idea what those things are but they're similar to the raw materials of writing (plot, character, story etc.).
In a sense I want to go back to the early 90s, when the internet was still a twinkle in the eye, and I had the feeling that if we created simpler networked software products, people would use them. We've been here before with the birth of the PC.
I've always seen software as a creative thing, like writing, painting or sculpting, but most of my friends can't seem to process this idea.
I've worked in Dublin, Trossingen, Altenberge and with customers all over Europe from Paris to Belgrade. Now when asked what I'm doing I get blank stares when I say I create software as an individual.
But why do you work?
I work for myself.
Who do you sell it to? I don't sell it.
I do make some money from time to time, by selling something I've created, but most of what I create doesn't make money, the opposite, it costs me money to make it.
I got lucky with Wolfgang and perbit, the company grew and our products were successful and we sold them for a long time to companies all over Germany. I enjoyed being a manager and was able to do the job, sort of, but now every day when I wake up, I'd rather create something than manage something. I don't like being responsible for other people's careers any more. So my manager days are over. It worked well for a long time and the money we made has made it possible for me to live a creative life, which is where I am most comfortable now.
I make software for others. More recently I've made products only for myself, with good results. Something new happens when you relax the assumption that software has to be easy to learn. People have a hard time understanding that you can do art with materials such as compilers, servers, editors, networks, display screens, etc. In general they have no idea what those things are but they're similar to the raw materials of writing (plot, character, story etc.).
In a sense I want to go back to the early 90s, when the internet was still a twinkle in the eye, and I had the feeling that if we created simpler networked software products, people would use them. We've been here before with the birth of the PC.
Freitag, 23. August 2019
Woodstock at 50
It seems apt that the attempt to create a music event to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Woodstock music festival ended in shambolic disorder: the venue being changed to a different state, the musicians withdrawing, the tickets then being advertised free of charge, and the whole event then being cancelled.
The 1969 festival was also marked by chaotic disorder and ended as a scene of mud and rubbish.
The Woodstock festival still seems to many a defining moment in Twentieth Century culture, a rejection of tradition and convention and the assertion of complete individual freedom.
Except it wasn’t like that, I never thought it was. The festival was running late, so late that, rather than coming on at the culmination of the event late on a Sunday night, Jimi Hendrix and his band played at 9 o’clock on a Monday morning. There were not hundreds of thousands, there were a few thousand who had remained amidst the mud and the rubbish, and their numbers grew progressively smaller as the band played. By the time of the encore, the footage of the performance shows people streaming away, and even the festival crew, standing on the stage behind the performers, are looking bored.
The programme concluded and there was a flat feeling. The only conclusions one seemed able to draw from Woodstock were that, after a party, there was a mess to clear up, and that weekends are followed by Monday mornings, when it is time to get on with the real business of life. It was hardly the stuff of dreams 50 years ago.
The programme concluded and there was a flat feeling. The only conclusions one seemed able to draw from Woodstock were that, after a party, there was a mess to clear up, and that weekends are followed by Monday mornings, when it is time to get on with the real business of life. It was hardly the stuff of dreams 50 years ago.
Dienstag, 30. Juli 2019
Amazon AWS still Number 1 in 2019
For the ninth consecutive year, AWS has secured the top-right corner of the Leader’s quadrant in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), earning highest placement for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision:
Montag, 29. Juli 2019
People don't change
Unless they want to!
Humans are unique in their ability to willingly change. We can change our attitude, our appearance and our skillset.
But only when we want to.
The hard part, then, isn’t the changing it.
It’s the wanting it.
Humans are unique in their ability to willingly change. We can change our attitude, our appearance and our skillset.
But only when we want to.
The hard part, then, isn’t the changing it.
It’s the wanting it.
Mittwoch, 26. Juni 2019
One of the greatest mistakes....
of all time!
Bill Gates' biggest failure in his own words is that Microsoft didn't make Android. Hat's off to him. Most great men when looking back on their careers tend to be less specific in their regrets.
But perhaps he's thinking too small. I think his biggest failure was to miss that at the point Windows became the default platform, the role of Microsoft fundamentally changed, and he fought that and that crippled his company and the market. He couldn't make Android at Microsoft any more than GM could make a Tesla.
So perhaps his biggest mistake was not buying a big stake in Google when they were in the garage. And anything else that looked promising. One of his strengths as a leader in the PC business was that he engaged with criticism, and learned from it. Most people in his position failed at that, and that's why he won so big.
Thanks again to Dave Winer.
Bill Gates' biggest failure in his own words is that Microsoft didn't make Android. Hat's off to him. Most great men when looking back on their careers tend to be less specific in their regrets.
But perhaps he's thinking too small. I think his biggest failure was to miss that at the point Windows became the default platform, the role of Microsoft fundamentally changed, and he fought that and that crippled his company and the market. He couldn't make Android at Microsoft any more than GM could make a Tesla.
So perhaps his biggest mistake was not buying a big stake in Google when they were in the garage. And anything else that looked promising. One of his strengths as a leader in the PC business was that he engaged with criticism, and learned from it. Most people in his position failed at that, and that's why he won so big.
Thanks again to Dave Winer.
Montag, 27. Mai 2019
In Memory ...
of Marlon's mother and Joyce's grandmother, Lissy Horvath, 1958 - 2019, Elvis fan.
Who passed away very sudenly and unexpectedly at home on 14th May, a sad reminder that all things must pass....
Who passed away very sudenly and unexpectedly at home on 14th May, a sad reminder that all things must pass....
Mittwoch, 24. April 2019
Ireland catching up
In 1979 Irish income per head was $12,342, compared with $22,053 in Germany, $22,713 in France, $20,500 in the UK and $22,530 in Italy. Anyone who travelled back then will remember feeling poor when abroad. Today Irish income per head is on a par with Germany (2018: €41,753) and above the rest. No other country has caught up so quickly.
If you want to look at it another way, let’s review living standards. Forty years ago the average Irish person had a budget of €7.29 per day. This compared with the average German’s budget of €14.51 or Dutch person of €13.30. So Irish living standards were about half those prevailing in western Europe. Today the average Irish person is spending €53.49 a day. This compares with €57.30 for the average German and €51.49 for the average Dutch person. Again, this is an extraordinary rate of economic catch-up with our richer neighbours.
Interestingly, we see the fruits of this economic expansion, and the expansion of the middle class, very conspicuously in education. In the late 1960s only 36 per cent of Irish children finished school. Today 97 per cent do the Leaving Cert. As late as 1989, only 15 per cent of Irish people had a university degree; today that figure is 43 per cent, ranking us among the best educated-people in the world.
Not bad indeed!
Donnerstag, 11. April 2019
HR Cloud Systems Germany 2020
Source -Roland Berger, Umsätze in Milliarden.
Vertical software solutions that focus on one area in the HR value chain are on the rise. These can be connected without too much difficulty to other applications via APIs.
Their considerable advantages compared to HR suites:
- a user-friendly interface and a user experience that animates employees to also make use of the system in their everyday work life
- they are more easily adapted to meet the needs of the company
- they can penetrate more deeply and substantially into the functional areas and respond to new demands
- in addition, they guarantee user-friendly access due to one-time-only single-sign-on log-in features.
Mittwoch, 10. April 2019
The Tortoise and the Rabbit
This has been my favorite internet discovery of the last few months. I’ve watched it many times and thought about it.
See, the rabbit doesn’t lose because he gets tired. He loses because he gets confused about which direction to go. Did you notice how he stops in the middle and stares blankly as everyone around yells loudly about things he doesn’t understand ?
As someone who has decades of experience on the web, I hate to compare myself to the tortoise, but hey, if it fits, it fits!
Let’s be more like that tortoise: diligent, direct, and purposeful. The web needs pockets of slowness and thoughtfulness as it's reach and power continues to increase. What we depend upon must be properly built and intelligently formed. (Always put the user first.)
See, the rabbit doesn’t lose because he gets tired. He loses because he gets confused about which direction to go. Did you notice how he stops in the middle and stares blankly as everyone around yells loudly about things he doesn’t understand ?
As someone who has decades of experience on the web, I hate to compare myself to the tortoise, but hey, if it fits, it fits!
Let’s be more like that tortoise: diligent, direct, and purposeful. The web needs pockets of slowness and thoughtfulness as it's reach and power continues to increase. What we depend upon must be properly built and intelligently formed. (Always put the user first.)
Sonntag, 7. April 2019
Freitag, 29. März 2019
Marianne remembers the sixties
Die Filmsequenzen, die hier zusammengestellt wurden, zeigen Anita Pallenberg, die 2017 verstorbene deutsch-italienische Künstlerin, mit der Marianne Faithfull nach eigenen Angaben eine 54 Jahre lange Freundschaft verband.
"Born to live and Born to die / aren't they essentially the same", sprechsingt Marianne Faithfull mit tiefer Stimme über ein melancholisches Klavierthema. Im Song verarbeitet sie den Verlust der Freundin, die sie so richtig kennenlernte, als diese mit Keith Richards zusammen war und Faithfull mit Mick Jagger.
"Ich glaube nicht, dass wir ohne sie Freundinnen geworden wären", schrieb Faithfull in einem Nachruf für den "Guardian": "Die Jungs waren so eng miteinander und verbrachten so viel Zeit im Studio, das warf Anita und mich zusammen. Außerdem nahmen wir viele Drogen."
Ein Teil der Aufnahmen zum Video stammt von einer Südamerikareise, die Pallenberg und Faithfull unternahmen. Aber auch Pallenbergs Sohn Marlon Richards gab Material aus den Archiven seiner Mutter dafür frei - zum Teil ist er auch als Kind darauf zu sehen. Das Video von "Born to Live" ist ein ungewöhnlicher Clip.
"Born to live and Born to die / aren't they essentially the same", sprechsingt Marianne Faithfull mit tiefer Stimme über ein melancholisches Klavierthema. Im Song verarbeitet sie den Verlust der Freundin, die sie so richtig kennenlernte, als diese mit Keith Richards zusammen war und Faithfull mit Mick Jagger.
"Ich glaube nicht, dass wir ohne sie Freundinnen geworden wären", schrieb Faithfull in einem Nachruf für den "Guardian": "Die Jungs waren so eng miteinander und verbrachten so viel Zeit im Studio, das warf Anita und mich zusammen. Außerdem nahmen wir viele Drogen."
Ein Teil der Aufnahmen zum Video stammt von einer Südamerikareise, die Pallenberg und Faithfull unternahmen. Aber auch Pallenbergs Sohn Marlon Richards gab Material aus den Archiven seiner Mutter dafür frei - zum Teil ist er auch als Kind darauf zu sehen. Das Video von "Born to Live" ist ein ungewöhnlicher Clip.
Samstag, 26. Januar 2019
The Steve Jobs way
One thing people don't understand about Steve Jobs is that he never sold a product he didn't have. At rollout, the iPhone couldn't run apps. So at rollout it he didn't talk about them.
Another thing most people don't get. Developing platforms even before you roll them out, takes a lot of time. People think about platforms as if you could imagine a movie like Titanic one day, and have it in the theaters in a month or two. Platforms take time.
-Dave Winer.
Another thing most people don't get. Developing platforms even before you roll them out, takes a lot of time. People think about platforms as if you could imagine a movie like Titanic one day, and have it in the theaters in a month or two. Platforms take time.
-Dave Winer.
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