Author Archives: Michael Schobert

A long running project

Today marks reaching a major milestone of a personal project I ran for the last 850 days. Back then my body weight was 116 kg (potentially even higher but I didn’t dare to step on a scale for a couple … Continue reading

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Photoblog self hosted again

I moved my photoblog back to a self hosted site a while ago. In case you are interested, please head over to photomichel.net.

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Durchblick Ernährung

Just a brief note, that the new business of my wife has gone life with a shiny new web site. If you are interested, head over to Durchblick Ernährung (in German). Enjoy.

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New Photoblog

Update: Selfhosted yet again: photomichel.net. I am happy to announce my new photoblog over at wordpress.com. I started it for two reasons: 1. to play a bit with a new theme called Monotone, which automatically determines the background for images … Continue reading

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Working for a brand new company

Today is my first day working for a new company. Well, actually it is not just a new company for me, it is a new company: Thomson Reuters. As you might have read in the last couple of month, Reuters … Continue reading

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Done or not Done – Republished

Just a quick note that the guys over at PM Hut have republished my little piece “Done or not Done: That is the Question” from a while back. You can find it here, but you have read it anyway, haven’t … Continue reading

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APress Deal of the day

I recently stumbled upon a nice deal on the APress website. They offer a different title as electronic book for $ 10 each day (called ebook deal of the day). After a couple of days I started to be annoyed … Continue reading

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Banks in crisis ask for public help

Disclaimer: This will be my first politically biased post, but here I can not stay silent in this case. In a recent edition of Financial Times Deutschland I read an article reporting that Josef Ackermann CEO of Deutsch Bank calls … Continue reading

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Management Wisdom

The recent issue (2.08) of the German magazine “Business Technology” has an interview with management consulting luminary Reinhard K. Sprenger (quite famous for his book “Mythos Motivation”). I am not sure if I buy all his theories about management mentioned … Continue reading

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Good Risk and Bad Risk

Bruce Tate writes about this in his book “From Java to Ruby“. But what does this mean? If you are running projects or are managing a team/company (for that matter), you have been told to manage risk(s). Chances are good … Continue reading

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