Thanks! I do have a lot on jewelry and 3D printing, but I also recently launched a purely introductory course which is for anyone interested in Blender. Just visit my Skillshare profile page, there you can find all the courses if you scroll down, as well:
https://www.skillshare.com/r/user/gesa_pickbrenner
Our department changed to new-work open space as well including those phone booths.
After just 15 minutes it gets uncomfortably warm in these but the worst thing is feeling of being in an aquarium. Coworkers watching from the side through the clear glass feels ultimately dystopian and exposed.
Other funny perks in the video won't stop me getting out there ASAP. Remote from home is liberating as I don't want to partake in any social experiments but just do my job. Sometimes I wish back the lockdowns of the pandemic to evade any nightmarish "office concepts".
Seconded. I have found this movie to stand the test of time, even 20 years after release.
To add, the movie captures some of the societal anxiety of cold-war West Germany accurately. August Diehl's portrayal of Karl Koch is, imho, a stand-out success.
It's just entropy, honestly. Growth = complexity/debt/escalating coordination cost. Success = complacency/greed. Like a cancer, the fruits of growth and success eventually burn the house down.
It's just the way of things, apparently. I try hard to not worry about it too much and instead side-step it as best I can.
Sounds like the effects when a company is blessed with good business for a long time but fails to adapt to upcoming required changed. I have experienced such places and it's real horror to change this situation.
Also the book "The Invincible" by Stanisław Lem tells a story about distributed intelligent lifeforms.
Really nice as they are described in a very unique un-anthropocentric way, i.e. their rationality is hardly understandable by the space faring humans encountering them.
Would another Steve Jobs personality have a chance at today's corporate environment?
I have doubts: leadership is a hot iron where laissez faire approaches are favoured. The cite from Kawasaki that he was "unpleasant and always scary" would surely give a today's Steve Jobs a date with HR.
A leader like Steve would be today called "toxic" and probably never promoted at all.
Local here.
We were told to enjoy about 60 additional freight trains per day.
The promised noise protection barriers were saved on due to budget after public voting went through.
Interestingly the ferry which is currently used to transport trucks is only at roughly half capacity.
It is a prestige project and I will have to move to some other place as I live next to the train tracks. These are used very sparingly today and are mostly not even electrified and one-tracked. Many wildlife refuges are on the way to move for the sake of the new tunnel.
I think it has to be looked at from a greater picture. I previously lived in Skåne in Sweden, from there I could get to Gothenburg in little over 2 hours and Stockhholm in like 4 and a half, with the slow high speed trains in Sweden running at a maximum of 200 km/h.
By distance from Malmö to Hamburg is a bit farther than to Gothenburg and Berlin is a bit closer than Stockholm, with the forced dogleg of going through the Fehmarn Belt. By air it would be like Leipzig. That is how far into Germany you get.
It is simply ridiculous that the only way I could think of to get to the larger cities in northern Germany would be to fly. Take the train to Copenhagen airport and likely Ryanair or something similarly awful costing less than the ticket to the airport.
Sure I could look up some train travel with a multitude of changes through Denmark, likely taking the train on the ferry. Or an over night sleeper style, if they even run. I know there's been talk of them starting again.
It would be one change of train, in Copenhagen, to get from Malmö to Hamburg. The faster train used to go on the ferry, but it's diverted through Jutland while they're upgrading the tracks for this tunnel.
The new-ish night train runs direct from Malmö, but only in some months of the year. (A seats-only overnight train runs all year from Copenhagen. But that was not fun the one time I used it.)
> Interestingly the ferry which is currently used to transport trucks is only at roughly half capacity.
Sometimes the existing solution doesn't need to be bursting at the seams to justify building something better. A better solution can induce its own demand.
Yes I imagine most of the traffic goes through the bridge in Denmark. What is more, that bridge is a single point of failure, which is a problem in case of an accident or maintenance.
You might find the electric freight trains are quieter than you expect. I did, in a place I lived in England.
There's a rail noise map for some lines in Denmark. Activate Temavælger - Jernbanerstøj - Større Jernbaner 1,5m, and start at Copenhagen Airport, the Øresund line might be similar.
I think that ferry was the first one I'd been on with train tracks. One of the times I crossed it we had to get out, walk onto the ferry, then get on the train.
I tried the tutorials in combination with my mediocre knowledge. Somewhat magical to hold a physical object in my hands after clicking around.
How many more classical "hand-based" jobs are about getting disrupted?