Now

Last updated: 16. March 2026

There are still many tasks left from the move, but overall I'm now quite settled. Last week I was on the conference of the German association for TeX and LaTeX (DANTE e.V.) and I enjoyed the talks very much. Really motivated me to do more with the system.

I'm still struggling with my relationship with photography and, therefore, I'm continuing to be on a creative hiatus. However, Sean Tuckers book "The Meaning in the Making" motivates me to think more deeply about my relationship with creativity overall.

Learning

• Clojure: Although I already written some smaller web apps in Clojure, I never took the time to learn the language thoroughly. A few months ago, I bought the "Living Clojure" book by Carin Meier, and I'm investing some spare time into working through it.
• Go: I studied the language a few years ago, but didn't do much with it, and now I need it for a large project. Therefore, I need to refresh my memories and learn some concepts more deeply. Most likely, I will go through "Learn Go with Tests" again.
• Stoicism: A lifelong challenge. After reading "The Daily Stoic" almost every day last year and I'm reading it again this year, but (at least as of now) not as regularly.

Projects

• My girlfriend and I just moved into our new apartment, and there are still some things to be done. And while the time required is reduced each day there are still many things to do.
• Founding a company to write a SAAS web application with two friends. We started developing in January, and since my part is mostly in product management, I currently write lots of stories and plan many details of the project.
• Digitalising a batch of (photographic) film. It is already scanned, but the photos still await digital processing (mostly inverting). I already started, and by now I know how to use Darktable for this task. Now, I just need to find time to actually do it.

Music

Of course, I have many favourite tracks and albums. But there is always one I listen to much more than the others.

• Current favourite track: Hard to narrow down, currently listening a lot to Lorde
• Current favourite album: Hard to narrow down, currently listening a lot to Lorde

Reading

I don't read as much as I want to, but as of now, I have no good idea how to improve that.

Current books

• "Nachruf auf mich selbst. Die Kultur des Aufhörens" by Harald Welzer
• "Living Clojure" by Carin Meier

Recently finished books

• "The Meaning in the Making" by Sean Tucker
• "Tod beim Fischerstechen" by Helmut Gotschy
• "Die falsche Fährte" by Henning Mankell

Goals

• Regularly writing something on this blog.
• Read more, at least a bit
• Interacting more with other people on a personal level (online and offline)

What the hell is this???

This page follows the idea introduced at https://nownownow.com/about: A (more or less) short overview of what is currently happening in my life. “A /now page shares what you’d tell a friend you hadn’t seen in a year.” — nownownow.com/about

If you have your own blog (and if you don't, you should start one), consider writing your own /now page, and if you do, please send it to me. I'd love to read it.