Posts

Blog posts of Marius Schober on random topics including opinions, thoughts, ideas, or personal day-to-day experiences.

  • Google Allo. Hallo Surveillance.

    Google released a few new products in the recent weeks: Google Duo, Google Allo, and Google Pixel, Google Home.

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  • Shame in Organizations Kills People

    During the last three weeks, I experienced one of the most devastating working atmospheres an organization can have. I worked as a freelancer in fifteen different retail shops of a well-known brand in Germany.

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  • Lessons from Three Days without a Smartphone

    Last week I was freelancing for a German shoe manufacturer and our team was traveling through east and south Germany. On the second day, my phone started an automatic updated at night.

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  • The Real Highlight Isn’t the iPhone 7 itself

    Photo: Apple Inc.  Yesterday was the Apple Keynote Event – the world’s best-known press conference where Apple is announcing yearly their new products and software. Apple announced a new Apple Watch, which now is swim proof, and a new shiny iPhone 7 which was presented as the…

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  • Learning Languages at the Hotel Check-In

    Last three weeks I was traveling through France. France is well-known for being a country which is very proud of their own beautiful language “French”. Indeed France even has a quota which regulates that radio stations need to play at least 35% of French music. With…

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  • Even if you fail you win

    Startups fail and startups succeed. Today everybody knows that there are more startups who fail than there are startups who succeed. Oftentimes you hear your parents and friends quoting studies who seem to prove that failing founders would have been better of by having stayed in…

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  • Why Distance will become Irrelevant

    Just look at the items and even groceries around yourself. Most of them are shipped over a large distance just to get to you. It is not only about the products we consume daily but it is also about ourselves. We are usually located in areas…

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  • Good or Bad? Who knows!

    From Printing to Re-Editing Everything Yesterday I just wanted to print around 50 samples of a new personalized newspaper I was working on. Well, this five-minute job became, in the end, a five-hour task and my whole day was literally over. Good or Bad?

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  • Avoid Side Projects

    The Problem of Multiple Projects at Once Some of you may know the problem: You have million of ideas at once in your head and to be honest you would like to work on all of them. We always have ideas but what is an idea…

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  • Pokémon Go and the Power of a Brand

    The Poké Hype The hype about Pokemon GO in the international press, in social networks, and in the word of mouth is slowly declining. We still see hundreds of Pokémon Go players hanging around in the Central Park in New York and other popular public places…

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