If one has difficulty defining a term or a situation, then considering and defining the opposite can be helpful. In workshops with companies thinking about how to prepare for the future, the following questions provide a lot of new thinking … Continue reading Natural Stupidity
In 1969, could anyone predict how long the Berlin Wall would stand? We know it fell in 1989, and it has now fallen longer than it ever stood. But that was the question American physicist John Richard Gott asked himself … Continue reading Copernican Method Or How Long Will Google Still Exist?
Anyone traveling through the cities of Europe cannot avoid visiting literary cafés. Not only as a welcome break while sightseeing, but also to breathe in the air of literary greatness, history, anecdotes and bestsellers.
The Café Central in Vienna or the now finally closed Café Griensteidl are places where Friedrich Torberg, Peter Altenberg, Karl Kraus, Egon Erwin Kisch and Hugo von Hofmannsthal wrote their literary works. Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek and a number of artists called Café Hawelka their home. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre spent time at the Café de Flore or Les Deux Magots in Paris. And Joanne K. Rowling allegedly wrote the first parts of Harry Potter in the Café Majestic in Porto. Continue reading “I am a Coffee House Writer”