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  • HomeOffice- vs Office-Discussion gone Wrong

    I just read an article on t3n about reasons to be in the office and reasons to stay in the HomeOffice. It’s an interesting read, just at one point I could have screamed (maybe I even did)! 🤦‍♂️

  • The 3 pillars of transformation & change

    You can talk a lot about agility and transformation etc. – I believe there are 3 basic pillars and EVERYONE can contribute to “change”: Those three tings alone are already a turbo for many small things that are simply super boring in the masses. But also the other way round: if one of the three…

  • Social Media Platforms vs Entertainment Platforms?

    I often like to listen / read when someone tells about his or her experience on different social media platforms. And when it comes to Mastodon, I’ve noticed a recurring theme: Many users describe how other social networks fill their timelines with entertaining or funny content and that they were missing this in the beginning…

  • Why do I feel triggered when Managers talk about AI?

    I still don’t know why it triggers me so much when managers talk about “(Gen)AI” with such fascination. Maybe because I get the feeling that they tell themselves that IT problems will magically disappear? But … what does ChatGPT say … the AI for sure must know (*cough*)

  • The truth about (Gen)AI

    (✅ clickbait title)Recently I attended a GenAI event organized by <big company>. All professional, interesting, insightful. Really good. (Really! I mean it! No sarcasm.) Until it hit me like a blow during a discussion: I DO KNOW the whole plot already!

  • How to: Migrate from Outlook.com to GMail / Fix connected accounts

    Microsoft / Outlook.com have silently removed connected accounts from outlook.com on July 1st, 2024. TL;DR: Connected accounts are gone and cannot be fixed :-( I only got aware of it as some people told me that my eMails were marked as “unverified sender” on their side. And indeed, eMails were suddenly sent via the outlook…

  • Your Company Blog needs RSS! Really

    In the last couple of weeks it happened repeatedly that I wanted to follow a company’s blog – just to see that they have a blog but no RSS feed! It’s surprising and a bit disheartening to see companies investing time in writing / maintaining a blog without providing an RSS feed – even though…

  • Mastodon is how the Web should be: OPEN

    TL;DR: just add “.rss” to a mastodon profile or tags or user-tags to get an RSS stream! My photography profile @hikingdude@mastodon.social for example can easily be followed by an RSS Reader by following https://mastodon.social/@hikingdude.rss. No account required! And that’s not even the end! 🤯

  • How to get rid of Cookie-AdTracking – easily

    TL;DR: Delete cookies when closing the browser, allow-list only the sites you want to stay logged in. It’s really that easy. I recently checked my browser settings and was “surprised” to find more than 3.000 cookies. Most of them from sites I didn’t recognize, many from obvious ad-tracking companies. These companies, with whom I have…

  • Making the Best of a Bad Presentation Experience

    Recently, I attended a conference and sat through a particularly bad presentation. I was tempted to leave, but my colleague insisted we stay until the end. So I somehow had to make the best out of it. This gave me the opportunity to analyze what made the presentation so ineffective and “bad” for me (maybe…