Watch your time - Part 1

Protect your most precious resource

Uwe Friedrichsen

10 minute read

Wall with several cuckoo clocks (seen in a hotel lobby in southern Germany)

This is my 100th blog post and the first post, I release in 2023. I would like to use this post to write about something more general for a change. I would like to write about time.

Keeping the balance

The dangers of extreme positions

Uwe Friedrichsen

13 minute read

Figurine(s) seen at a garden market

In this last post before the end of the year 2022, I would like to discuss a bit more general topic. I would like to discuss the problems of extreme positions in IT, why they are so popular – and why they are so harmful.

People only change in pain - Part 1

We do not act as rational as we think we do

Uwe Friedrichsen

7 minute read

Butterfly in front of some flowers

In a previous post, I discussed that the decision process, if confronted with change, is not rational but rather a gut decision. I also briefly mentioned that people tend to embrace change the more willingly, the worse they experience their current situation (or the more they are afraid of negative future implications if they do not change now).