Marcel Wichmann
Marcel is from Hamburg, Germany, has some followers and follows great people. You can find Marcel’s tweets at @UARRR and website at uarrr.org.
Hej, I'm one of the three guys building this thing here.
»As the sun gets lower in the curt November sky, I thank the woman for her help. When I start toward the door, she repeats her "No. 1 rule of survival" one more time. "Leave your pride and your personal life at the door." If there's any way I'm going to last, she says, tomorrow I have to start pretending like I don't have either.«
»Germans can schnitzel the hell out of anything. First, they take a slab of meat and hammer it flat. That’s right: they are so damn badass, they beat their food after it’s dead.«
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Marcel Wichmann Harhar, awesome! Geraldine on German food. She's right.
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Marc von Martial Great article, but no this is about bavarian food, not "german" food. You guys up there in Hamburg don't run around in Lederhosen also.
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Marcel Wichmann Hey Marc, just a heads up: Bavaria is a part of Germany.
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Marc von Martial Well down there they insist it is not :P
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Ivy Behrens Orrr. Now I want some weisswurst. :<
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Marcel Wichmann Harhar. :D ♥
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milch_maedchen Let's wait what she comments when she discovers "Labskaus"...
»Each had paid American more than $350,000 for an unlimited AAirpass and a companion ticket that allowed them to take someone along on their adventures. Both agree it was the best purchase they ever made, one that completely redefined their lives.«
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Marcel Wichmann American Airlines sold unlimited lifetime tickets and discovered that it wasn't a good idea.
»I didn't know what to do. What could I say? Some part of me decided to make a joke. It was my gut reaction whenever shame fluttered around my head. I stammered in French, "Well, when I come, I guess I come hard, too."«
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Marcel Wichmann Rosecrans Baldwin went to Paris to work and live there. He wrote a book about his life in Europe and this is an excerpt from it.
»I want all the attractive women I knew in high school and college to read it. I want them to be amazed and impressed and feel a vague regret over their decision not to have sex with me, and maybe if I get divorced or become a widower, I can have sex with them someday at a reunion. I want Hollywood to buy my article and turn it into a movie, even though they kind of already made the movie ten years ago with Jim Carrey. I want to get congratulatory e-mails and job offers that I can politely decline. Or accept if they're really good. Then get a generous counteroffer from my boss.«
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Marcel Wichmann The truth about why A.J. Jacobs wrote this article about "Radical Honesty".
I've read it some time ago and rediscovered it yesterday through QUOTE.fm (great platform! Nice work, guys!) and it's absolutely worth reading.
»Turning off Wi-Fi isn't suddenly going to make you a different person. You're going to have all the same problems you had before, only now they're going to be even more annoying to other people. Paul doesn't need to quit the internet for a year, Paul needs to control himself and reduce his use to reasonable limits, get some creative hobbies, and spend more time with his friends.«
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Marcel Wichmann Garrett Murray (@garrettmurray) on Paul Miller's decision to leave the internet for one year. I think he's right.
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chuckpala He is, but it's still a good thing Miller does so for the sake of the experiment. If anyone's still interested in it after a year though.
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Julian Peters What is the point of an experiment when either outcome is irrelevant?
»Plus, if you aren't exceptional at what you do, if you are doing just enough to be “good” and not the best, you become dispensable… quickly. That's never a comfortable position to be in.«
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Marcel Wichmann Bobby Ghoshal ( @ghoshal ) on why it's necessary to be great instead of just good.
»Users don't care about design for its own sake; they just want to get things done and get out. Normal people don't love sitting at their computers. They'd rather watch football, walk the dog — just about anything else. Using a computer probably rates above taking out the trash, though.«
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Marcel Wichmann Jakob Nielsen on redesigns. (via @tapbot_paul)
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makemakenotnot Quark
»I was an undercover car salesman for Edmunds.com, sent to a dealership, which sent me to a seminar, which sent me to another dealership as an undercover shopping evaluator. I guess that made me a triple agent. Very good lines.«
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Marcel Wichmann A great read. Chandler Phillips becomes an undercover car salesman.
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Simon Hurtz "Estimated reading Time: 1h 50min"
Uff! Bin jetzt bei ca. 1/3 des Textes und erwäge ernsthaft, zum Internetausdrucker zu werden. Mangels Tablet oder einem sonstigen komfortablen Lesegerät bleibt mir nichts anderes übrig. Ist vielleicht eh ganz gut für meinen Drucker, der war seit einem halben Jahr nicht mehr im Einsatz - und irgendwo habe ich mal gelesen, dass irgendwann die Patronen eintrocknen.
Ich glaube, in ein paar Jahren wird mir Ausdrucken ähnlich steinzeitlich vorkommen wie heute Faxen. Aber, um auch noch einen Satz zum Thema loszuwerden: Der Text lohnt sich, das kann ich auch jetzt schon sagen.
»In fact, in many situations, “evil” is a required ingredient for the manufacture of success. Villains are often misunderstood superheroes.«
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Marcel Wichmann Dustin Curtis (@dcurtis) on superheroes and villains.
»These days, about the only thing that’s more frustrating than being interrupted while we’re interacting with our screens is trying to get the attention of someone else who’s interacting with theirs. Maybe this occasional glimpse into the digital mirror gives us hope that there’s a light at the end of the tantrum tunnel.«
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Marcel Wichmann Dave Pell (@davepell) on screens and their shiny promise.
»At Amazon we like things to work in five to seven years. We’re willing to plant seeds, let them grow—and we’re very stubborn. We say we’re stubborn on vision and flexible on details.«
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Marcel Wichmann Amazon's Jeff Bezos.
»He was 23 years old and knew no one. He slept in pig pens, haystacks and freight trains. He ate whatever he could find. He stole and traded on the black market. He was helped, exploited and betrayed. His legs hurt and he was hungry and cold, yet he was exhilarated. He felt like an alien fallen to earth.«
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Marcel Wichmann Shin is the only known person, which was born in a North Korean prison camp and escaped from it.
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Pëll Dalipi Shin gave a speech at Google Tech Talk a while ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms4NIB6xroc
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Marcel Wichmann *who
»The biggest startup ideas are terrifying. And not just because they'd be a lot of work. The biggest ideas seem to threaten your identity: you wonder if you'd have enough ambition to carry them through.«
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Marcel Wichmann Paul Graham on ambitious startup ideas and how to tackle them.
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Philipp Loringhoven I find it a bit - weepy, nearly too flawless.
If he calls those ideas "invisible" and repeling then this is only for a specific group of possible folks how try to tackle the ideas.
He is right when saying that they may frightend one, caus your taking on with the "big" guys, but for most entreupeneurs that should be the fuel to set them off.
Just like Alexander Ljung said at Idea Lab 2011: Attack and live for your idea / problem -
mjays @philipp: that may be right, but the proper big ideas, or “Big Hairy Audacious Goals” ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHAG) are, quite simply, terrifying. There’s no rational way to make, in 1980, the goal of putting a PC in every home something that one just aspires to. I think the examples he gives aren’t quite the big ones yet, but the notion stands: the really big challenges are the one you don’t even know how to begin to tackle, the ones that fundamentally make you think: “Oh shit”, the ones that change you forever.
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Philipp Loringhoven @Mjays i really really get your piont - it may be that i´m more of a "black swans" type of guy ;) Just try the unexpected and if you fall down stand up and do it again... Changes are sometimes radical
But in the gross of things your right!
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hugelshofer IMHO you need to read between the lines ...
have your own disruptive idea, and accept, that the majority wont like it at first sight.
most people dont have the vision to understand the truly great innovations, until they can "physically touch the device".
this reminds of Steve Ballmer when he laughed at the new iPhone ...
»Software these days tends to auto-update itself, so the changes often come as a surprise. One moment you’re using the old interface, and then when you sign in later in the day you may find that something has been changed. It’s a little bit like coming back home only to find your furniture re-arranged.«
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Marcel Wichmann Design changes and how to buy your users a new Ferrari.
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Thomas Teichert Spotify does this. -.-
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Benny Schmidt Some software like Titanium and Photoshop do this as well.
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Marcel Wichmann Do you remember the guy who worked as an undercover car salesman? ( quote.fm/article/16365 )
Mac McClelland worked undercover as a picker in one of those gigantic warehouses where big e-commerce companies store their goods and discovers unbearable working conditions.
René Fischer Merkwürdig. Warum wird eigentlich hier quote.fm/article/19532 nicht angezeigt, das ich den Artikel auch empfohlen habe?
Marcel Wichmann Vermutlich weil ich die Printansicht empfohlen habe, nehme ich an. Irgendwann schaffen wir es auch, so Kram zusammenzuführen. :/
René Fischer Ah, okay. Danke für die Erklärung. Leuchtet zumindest aus technischer Sicht ein.