Time to let an outdated thought model go — If you would be a school, or an ed tech company or a “learning experience provider”, which would be the easiest way to dump your content? The answer is not too hard — in classic learning curricula you predetermine what has to be learned. …

Can you disrupt Data Governance before you introduce it? — This might seem to be a strange question. However, sometimes organizational patterns are so predominant that they exist in peoples’ heads or outspoken as a common desirable state even if you never made own experiences. It makes it easier to re-form on the one hand, since no legacy needs to…

Insights from a free online workshop for Data Applications — Disclaimer 1: If you are an experienced data engineer or developer, don’t expect too much of the courses described here. Although I am a seasoned Enterprise Architect, I am somewhat new to the Snowflake ecosystem, and so I decided to get a glimpse behind the scences. After having absolved the…

A Web3 Learner’s Tale — What would my web3 studies be without Metaverse? And what would the Metaverse be without one of those meanwhile iconic headsets that open up new dimensions of virtual realities? Now I finally want to give it a try. A special offer from last year’s model of the HTC Vive Pro…

Why your IT has the change still ahead — You have done your homework, haven’t you? With you, the constant warnings from the guardians of digital transformation have not fallen on deaf ears. You’ve automated most of your processes, built a digital marketing for better customer experience, got finally your data warehouse project under control, and even found some agile ideas that you can live with…

How to stay calm in a world full of crazy work — We all know the concept of “work hard then you get your rewards”. Maybe I am late but suddenly strikes me the insight — exhausting yourself at work and trying to relax at after-work hours is the wrong concept. This again is just another internalized occurance of the ancient way…

A small weekend automation project with Terraform & Ansible — Motivation Nextcloud as a communication solution is waiting in my backlog for a long time. Again and again something else came up — now I have a real use case. Our Git for Kids Learning Circle has started for the first time and apart from zoom, it doesn’t really have a…

Avoid Shaving the Yak with this concise checklist — Do you know the phrase “Shaving a Yak”? This phrase was coined at the MIT in the Nineties, and refers to a set of seemingly unneccessary steps that you have to do before you can do what you really want to achieve. More often than not, I feel that way…

How can we evolve to no-frills publishing? — Recently, in a Knowledge Manager Community meeting, someone raised the question “How can I convert Word files to Markdown without getting crazy?” A lively debate was the consequence, everybody had something to report about nested tables, unconvertable drawings, and the like. …