Marcel Kapfer

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There are always some ideas floating around in my head of things that I want to write. Some fade away, and others I capture in my GTD system. And on some rare occasions, I invest the time to move my thoughts from my brain into a nice blog post.

If you’re asking about what I write: I really can’t tell. Most things you can find here at the moment are about Linux, coding, and similar stuff. But I won’t promise that this won’t change. We’ll see.

Breaking out of the box

2025-08-29

Boxes are everywhere, and it is too easy and quite comfortable to put yourself in a set of boxes that somehow seem to fit. Even funnier, other people put you in boxes – whether you like it or not – starting with your birth. Your gender, your nationality, sometimes even your religion. That is …

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Outside: Success depends on measurement

2023-10-06

Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. As you may know, I started doing some street photography regularly since early this year. For a few months, I started to walk through Ulm more regularly …

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On Finding a To-Do Setup That Works

2023-05-22

How many to-do apps have you already tried? All of them? Did you find one that "works" for you? No? Well, you're certainly not alone. The Endless Search I tried a fair share of apps and setups but all of them seemed to fail sooner or later. Whether it was a plain paper notebook I kept in my …

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