In 2015 I was not as busy as last year when it came to blogging, mainly due to my new job and my PhD thesis. But still, the WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a very nice 2015 annual report for Twenty Oh Eight. I vow that I'm gonna post more regularly again next year! In case… Continue reading My 2015 in Blogging
Category: General / News
why i’m a minimalist
(the funny thing is: i can't really explain why. but i'll try anyway.) i believe that there's sth. inherently beautiful to minimalistic design & content. this is what my sense of aesthetics tells me. i'd always prefer t. capote's Summer Crossing over f. schätzing's Limit, 'cause the former tells a beautiful story in 149 pages (🇩🇪 ed.) while… Continue reading why i’m a minimalist
Farewell, Leipzig!
Dear friends, as some of you already know, last year there were some complications with the extension of my PhD scholarship beyond December 31st. At the same time, I got a job offer from an augmented/virtual reality start-up in Aachen. I spent a long time thinking about all this, weighed up the pros and cons and… Continue reading Farewell, Leipzig!
My 2014 in Blogging
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for my blog Twenty Oh Eight that went online on January 18 🙂 Click here to see the complete report. The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at… Continue reading My 2014 in Blogging
Über-Productivity in Just Three Steps
Know those guidelines for being productive that consist of "only" 20 or more rules? Keeping to-do lists, keeping anti-to-do lists, writing journals, reflecting on your day, the 50/10 rule etc. pp. ... Forget about them! Here is what I did to finish two CHI papers in the course of one weekend: Get rid of distractions: I put my… Continue reading Über-Productivity in Just Three Steps
Twenty years from now …
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." — Mark Twain
If you love two people at the same time …
"If you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second." — Johnny Depp
Ecosia: Helping the environment while surfing the web has never been so easy!
Let me guess ... you're using Google for searching the web?! OK, I admit, that one was easy. I think if you bet $1 on whether someone's using Google and won, you'd probably get only 80¢ back. So what's the business model of Google's web search? They provide you with high-quality search results for free and… Continue reading Ecosia: Helping the environment while surfing the web has never been so easy!
The First Post or: Welcome to my Blog!
Hi there! I'm very happy you found the way to my new blog. An obvious question might be: Why in the world did that guy name his blog "2008"? Fine, I'll tell you why ...The simple answer is: 2008 was a good year for me. No, wait ... it was really a very good year… Continue reading The First Post or: Welcome to my Blog!
2008 – Tales of Design & User Experience 