Lob des Lobes

Mein junger Freund Lukas schreibt seit Jahren ins Internet und versendet neuerdings einen Newsletter, den ich jedem ans Herz legen kann.

Ich versuche ja auch mich viel mehr auf das Gute und Schöne zu konzentrieren. Er hilft mir dabei. Ich freue mich jedes Mal, wenn sein Newsletter kommt und lese ihn nicht gleich sondern setze mich mit einem Espresso aufs Sofa und lese ihn genüsslich, wie man eine gute Praline zum Kaffee isst.

Das was er über positives Feedback, Lob, Wertschätzung sagt, das versuche ich mein ganzes Leben lang schon. Viele können damit nicht umgehen, aber da mein Leben ja ziemlich konstant ist und ich immer und überall lange mit den selben Menschen interagiere wird es bei den meisten immer besser. Manche können damit nie umgehen, interessanter Weise sind das i.d.R. diejenigen, die auch über die Zeit immer weniger Lob verdienen.

Aber:

Die meisten Menschen sind die meiste Zeit über toll und verdienen es, dass auch gesagt zu bekommen. 

Und dann gibt es diejenigen, die meinen man müsse mehr Millei, Musk oder Merz wagen.

Working from Home (28)

Today is European and World Cycling Day. I’ve been taking advantage of the nice weather all week and cycle to the office every day. It’s pleasantly fresh in the morning and not too warm in the evening. What’s best is when I cycle home – upstream – that I’ve really leave the office behind. That’s the biggest challenge for me when working from home: Switching off when the working hours are over.

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Keep Calm and Carry On

I haven’t posted anything substantial in the last few weeks. I was speechless in the face of global challenges. Is it allowed to have fun and go out? Does one even dare to go on holiday? Does going to work still make any sense at all? Is it despicable to want normality? The climate crisis will be with us for decades to come, the pandemic may have just peaked and the Ukraine war has been raging for six weeks now.

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Impfen is Action

How I would love to write about our rebranding in Best Delivery: „Innovation is Action“ and what it is all about. Our super interesting projects with clients. Our progress in applying AI and automatically processing the insights gained. Real end-to-end processes. 

Impfen is Action
Innov…mpfen is Action

Or cheering about the new federal government. I am a fan of Angela Merkel, but 16 years was enough. My children were shocked that men can also become Kanzlerin. A former colleague is the first female Interior Minister. And a doctor, health policy expert, and epidemiologist is the Minister of Health – many had wished for that, me included. The same number of female and male ministers.

But no, I still have to call for vaccination. Booster vaccinations are doing really well (17%) in Germany. Also the first and second vaccinations of 12 to 15-year-olds. I also think the STIKO recommendation for 5 to 11-year-olds is sensible and correct. 

But the overall rate of being fully vaccinated has still not reached 70%. That is too little. Therefore, get vaccinated (and boostered) if you can! Washing your hands, keeping your distance, and meeting as few people as possible and bearable also helps.

#ZusammenGegenCorona

Hat tip goes to Oliver, another Sven and many others for initiating this.

P.S.: I am an #impfluencer

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Please excuse this rant. But I’m really annoyed. I’ve been on the road for the last three weeks. In Italy, my vaccination certificate was scanned at every opportunity. Most of the time they wanted to see my identity card as well. They also checked me in Switzerland, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg. But here in Frankfurt and the surrounding area, almost no one cares whether you’ve been vaccinated, recovered, or tested. Only in two restaurants that opted for 2G were they looking for my certificate. In one rather unwillingly, in the other conscientiously. I can’t remember who last asked for my contact details or at least had a paper form available (apart from my favourite Italian restaurant and my hairdresser) – they all refer to QR codes to the Luca app. No sensible person with an IT background would go along with Luca.

Kids aren’t „supposed“ to wear masks in school anymore. Star football players, former left-wing icons, and philosopher-pop stars talk about long-term consequences and vaccine damage or that they would never vaccinate children (against Covid) because this would destroy their „natural“ immune system or because vaccination is only for their own protection.

That. Is. All. Wrong.

Folks: The incidences are shooting through the roof. Yes, even fully vaccinated people can infect others. That’s no surprise. If more were vaccinated, there would be fewer recipients. And fewer strong spreaders. And wearing a mask, washing your hands and being careful is still the order of the day. That’s not so hard after all.

One bright spot is the German Corona Warn app: My mother and child #1 were informed in the app that because of their age and vaccination date (mother) or vaccine (child) they should get a booster vaccination now.

Working from Home (21)

Yesterday we were all in the office together as a team for the first time in over a year. We tested with spit self-tests provided by Clifford Chance to all employees who need or want to come into the office. After all the tests came back negative, as expected, we sat in our famous/notorious Innovation & Best Delivery Hub for several hours and worked together. The hub is big enough that we can sit at a distance. It faces the quiet courtyard and has floor-to-ceiling windows that can be opened wide. Well, we didn’t just work in a concentrated way, we also just talked about private and personal things and practiced our social skills. It was great and we plan to repeat it at least once a month while we are still working mostly from home due to the pandemic.

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Working from Home (18)

It has never felt as dark as it does this year. This is not only a sensed, „alternative“ fact. Looking out from 24th floor of one shabby skyscraper at other shining skyscrapers is nowhere near as dark as to when looking out on ground level at your desk at home. What I have mainly done this winter.

View from my desk on 24th floor of FBC at 13 January 2017
View from my desk on 24th floor of FBC on 13 Januar 2017

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