Invest time to get better at video, a very much neglected skill.

I released a new product: Essential Video Meeting Guide

25 pages and 29 images that help you make virtual meetings more productive and fun.

Grab a copy and let me know what you think.

My favorite quote: “When your company does layoffs—and for many companies, it will be when, not if—you probably don’t want to be at the top of the kill list, especially in a recession. So stay as informed as you need to be, but also stay focused on your career.”

Do you think you need Netflix?

Just tell your loved ones about your dreams like this Russian family who lived in the Siberian taiga for >40 years in so much isolation that they even didn’t know that WWII happened!

Today, where are the humans unaware of Coronavirus?

Not a bright outlook on data science and machine learning, two very overhyped job profiles of the last decade. If you work in these fields, have a read and let me know what you think. Is the author exaggerating?

I remember my inauguration speech of the university president to 1000s of 18-20 yrs old, “You are the elite of Germany!”

Most of the kids’ faces were full of hope like they’re all going be CEO of BMW. Sadly, it only needs one CEO, not 1000.

We need more doers (e.g., hands-on coders)

Here some arguments why you should *consider* having a LinkedIn account if you have none yet.

Downside: Getting spam once in a while. 

Upside: Get to opportunities you’d otherwise miss. 

Assessments are messy. Make them less messy by following these rules: 

1. Take-home assignments should never have learning curves. 

2. They shouldn’t take more than 2-3 hours.

3. Someone with adequate seniority should judge them.  

Been shouting this from the rooftops of Zurich: Tech assessments err on the side of checking for tech skill.

Some technically excellent developers are so obsessed with writing code that they forget that nobody cares about what they’re building. You shouldn’t hire these people.

Technically less proficient but more thoughtful hires might use some time to talk to end-users and their needs and suddenly they can be 10x (or 1000x) developers, because they know what they should be building. A good read on this topic.