Informer or Influencer?

Posted on Monday, November 21, 2011

It must be human nature – to spend all we make on things that we feel we need. From what I have seen, most of us have our lives set up to spend pretty much all that we earn. In comes the salary, then out go the payments.

Is it human nature to spend what we earn? And what role does the marketing and advertising of products by all those companies out there play?

Click to Send and….Oh S%@t!

Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011

Like most of us, I Skype, email, message, and text daily. My friends and I around the world use all these methods to keep in touch, and for whatever reason, when communicating via these channels we get a bit crazy. If you looked up some of our Skype chat histories or email exchanges you’d consider us fit for a psych ward.

It seems chatting via the above methods loosens our inhibitions. And it is also extremely fun. One person sends an r-rated email out to five or six people, then an hour later you have 30 emails in your inbox with hilarious – albeit ridiculously childish – responses. It happens fast and it is all very reckless.

Going in the right direction…

Posted on Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Last week when I was in Düsseldorf I wanted to go from Golzheimer Platz to Nordpark /Aquazoo.  Aparently an easy task for a savvy city rat like myself. After living in some many countries with very different subway systems, I was expecting to simply follow the map and get there. However this is what I encountered:

At a first glance I thought to myself “this is the wrong train”. To my surprise it was indeed the right one. In case you are wondering what’s wrong with this picture, I would ask you to look at it again.