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I belong to the group of people who if they hear the word “crypto” think of AES, HMAC, symmetric ciphers, and how to make sure a VPN can saturate even big links. In the last ten years, I’ve had numerous occurrences where someone said to me “I got interested in crypto” and me going “Wow, wouldn’t ...

Over the Easter weekend and the previous week, I got around to some reading. In between reading Bad Blood (which dives into the story of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes) and yet another good fable by Patrick Lencioni on Silos, Politics and Turf Wars I also read “A Radical Enterprise” by Matt K. Par...

Vor kurzem bekam ich - sehr zu meiner Überraschung nicht von meinem örtlichen Buchhändler - eine Buchsendung. Dierk hatte mir immer wieder mal von seinem Buchprojekt mit einigen anderen Autor*innen erzählt - umso erfreuter war ich, als ich die Sendung aufmachte und vor mir das fertige Buch: We...

The book I’ve finished on New Years Eve was Debugging Teams so what’s better than to kick-off this year with a review of it. It helped that I was asked on twitter to post my thoughts on it as well ;) I’ve mostly read the paper variant of it (since Lenz sent me his copy). Partially I read it digi...

For a while, I’ve been looking for ways to get even more out of the books I read. For the most parts, I’m referring to non-fiction books in this case. What I already do is that I highlight and annotate. With some books I capture thoughts in a mindmap. Couple months ago I came across readwise. Th...

Reading recommendations from 2020 Just like last year, I’d like to shortly dig into my readings from last year and want to throw out a few recommendations. From the books I read in 2020 two were really outstanding. Outstanding in the sense that they will keep me company for a while - to the deg...

A few years ago I managed to pick up my reading habit again. As a teenager I read constantly. Somehow I lost that during the early twen years. Probably due to me reading a lot on the screen already. For the past years I’ve tried different reading practices and ways to approach books and it basica...

Reading recommendations from 2019 I’ve always liked to read - however in 2019 I adjusted my reading habits and got much more out of my reading than previously. Since I travel a lot - by train as well as by car - I took this into account and started consuming books not only by reading but by list...