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I am an experienced B2B SaaS CPTO with a passion for breaking down silos. As a startup founder and business unit lead, I bridge the gap between technical delivery and agile product strategy. Sometimes, I invest or advise, helping leadership teams build interdisciplinary teams themselves.

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2026 28

  1. tldr.tf, a summary for any link
  2. SMB Olek, an Apple TV app that streams straight from your SMB share
  3. Becoming a technical Leader, Gerald M. Weinberg, 1986
  4. Ursache & Wirkung, Erik Spiekermann, 1982
  5. Skizzen, Max Frisch, Uwe Johnson
  6. Ansichten eines Clowns, Heinrich Böll, 1967
  7. Haben oder Sein, Erich Fromm, 1967
  8. Die Schwierigen, Max Frisch, Neuausgabe 1957
  9. Die Kunst des Liebens, Erich Fromm, 1956
  10. The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley
  11. Den Menschen verstehen, Erich Fromm, 1947
  12. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, 1932
  13. Seneca, Vom glücklichen Leben (On the Happy Life)
  14. Houston, We Have a Solution! .. What Was the Problem Again?
  15. BUMM, or the State of AI After GPT 6 Astra
  16. Shaping Enterprise: What I Took Out of the New Shape Up Book
  17. Texttile, a multiplayer blog engine for people who write together
  18. Three People Is a Team. Seven Is a Committee with Zero Decisions.
  19. Mexico - Travel Report
  20. Sticky Notes Over Figma: Breadboarding as an Inclusive Way to Shape Software
  21. franken.domains: Stitched-Together Domains, Because Every Dictionary .com Is Taken
  22. Field Notes: Trunk-Based Development Makes Problems Painfully Visible
  23. Our Interview Runs on Real Code. One Candidate Already Quit.
  24. imaedge: Collecting Original Photos Together
  25. Product Development Lifecycle AI Transformation Workshop
  26. Everything Keeps Changing. Faster.
  27. Field Notes: Workflow Principles
  28. BonBonBon - A Toy Receipt Printer for Kids (and Grown-Ups)

2025 22

  1. How to Spot North Korean Scammers When Hiring EU Remote Developers
  2. ML Week Europe: Bridging the AI-UX Gap in B2B SaaS through Interdisciplinary Collaboration
  3. CodeTalks Hamburg: Move Fast and break Silos - Interdisciplinary Teams That Work
  4. Agile Prague 2025: Tickets Create Silos
  5. French Polynesia - Travel Report
  6. Tech Lead Journal - #224 Move Fast, Break Silos: Leadership for Interdisciplinary Teams
  7. alphalist: Distributed, Yet Focused - High-Impact Remote Teams
  8. Aligning Teams around Work - An Optimization Problem Solved by Smaller Cells
  9. How to Slice Work - First Principles to Build The Product Process
  10. How to Make MS Teams Actually Usable (by Emulating Slack)
  11. Tickets Create Silos
  12. Building Software Isn’t an Assembly Line. It’s a Design Process.
  13. #AgileWay - Interdisciplinary Teams
  14. alphalist: Move Fast and Break Silos - Leading Interdisciplinary Teams and Organizations
  15. Hyundai IONIQ5 – After 3 Years.
  16. To-Do ≠ To-Think
  17. Click, Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, 2025
  18. Developer Accountability, Stephan Schmidt, 2025
  19. Engineering Role Descriptions, Stephan Schmidt, 2025
  20. From Project to Product Mode, Sebastian Borggrewe, Thomas Hartmann, 2025
  21. Rewilding Software Engineering, Simon Wardley, Girba Tudor, 2025
  22. Startup Phases For CTOs, Stephan Schmidt, 2025

2024 43

  1. Design Systems Aren't Meant to Be Component Libraries
  2. Template: Impact-Appetite-Tierlist - Roadmapping for Empowered Product Teams
  3. Empowering Your Staff Doesn’t Work. Here’s What Does.
  4. How Shape Up enables Remote Empowered Product Teams (and Why I Disagree with Marty Cagan)
  5. ChatGPT as Coach for Coaching
  6. One question that changes everything in Shape Up – How to Discuss Appetite
  7. Timelessness of Human Perception and Good Ideas
  8. Leading Eng Berlin 2024
  9. Password Protection with Shareable Links Wordpress Plugin
  10. Whole Year Calendar For Online Whiteboards
  11. randomized - Random Name Shuffler for Workshops and Group Activities
  12. Rename All Your Photos Based on Exif Because Google Fotos Destroys the File Timestamp
  13. Sulawesi - Travel Report
  14. Select Original Photos Based on Filenames Because Apple's Shared Photo Albums Reduce Resolution
  15. Self Documenting Code Is Bullshit
  16. The only way to fix a tech zoo is by focusing on stability first
  17. All The Requests
  18. A Rant About Neglected AI Tooling and Developer Pride
  19. The Biggest Hiring Mistake: Not Involving The Team
  20. Unspoiled - the latest YouTube videos without spoilers
  21. What World of Warcraft Taught Me About Remote Team Leadership
  22. Open sourcing dumplink: Intuitive Task Grouping and Risk Visualization
  23. Driving Innovation Like Porsche: The Stair-Step Method of Product & Tech Innovation
  24. Coding Test Equivalent for Product Management - How to Hire for an Empowered Remote Product Team
  25. The New SONOS App: A Dumpster Fire That Shows How Not to Relaunch an App
  26. Freeing My Mind from Work Thoughts on the Go with the Apple Watch
  27. Iterative Architecture During Feature Shaping with Feedback Loops
  28. Centaur Programmers shrink product team sizes — at least, they should.
  29. Dear Digital Agencies, Stop Asking Your Customers for a Product Owner.
  30. Outsourced Engineering: Painting By Numbers Kills Product Innovation
  31. Dear Samsung Internet: Please Fix Your Forced Dark Mode! (Update!)
  32. Bicycle for my Mind - How I Organize Myself and My Knowledge
  33. Flow & Reflection: My Approach to Team Management
  34. How to Strategize
  35. Amazing CTO, Stephan Schmidt, 2024
  36. Become a Great Engineering Leader, James Stanier, 2024
  37. Job Moves, Bob Moesta, 2024
  38. Meditations for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, 2024
  39. Slow Productivity, Cal Newport, 2024
  40. This is Strategy, Seth Godin, 2024
  41. Transformed, Marty Cagan, 2024
  42. Untrapping Product Teams, David Pereira, 2024
  43. Useful Not True, Derek Sivers, 2024

2023 28

  1. 37C3 - The Heart of Hacker Culture
  2. Knowledge Work's Disruption and the Future of Product Development
  3. Unbundling Shape Up: Principles for Product Teams
  4. Shape Up for AI Products: Prototyping while Shaping
  5. Japan - Travel Report
  6. Innovating Product Process Cadence: Shape Up Beyond 6+2
  7. How I Use ChatGPT to Enhance My Productivity for Software Development
  8. Refactoring Legacy Code in Shape Up: The Dilemma
  9. Nobody Owes You Simplicity. YOU Must Fight Details Early On.
  10. Redefining Client Work - The Agency's Guide to Shape Up.
  11. Ripples of Shape Up: An Organizational Deep Dive
  12. Folder Feeder: Personal Adhoc Podcast Hosting
  13. All The Highlights: Centralizing Readwise Highlights
  14. The .io Dilemma: Navigating Ethical Concerns in Domain Choice
  15. The Art of Constant De-Risking: How Shape Up Revolutionizes Agile Software Development
  16. Hidden Treasures of TLDs: How I Scraped Hackernews for Domain Names
  17. No bullshit backlog management
  18. 2023 Homepage Relaunch
  19. Daily Dad, Ryan Holiday, 2023
  20. Excellent Advice for Living, Kevin Kelly, 2023
  21. Make Something Wonderful, Steve Jobs, 2023
  22. Million Dollar Weekend, Noah Kagan, 2023
  23. Safe Haven: Investing for Financial Storm, Mark Spitznagel, 2023
  24. The Creative Act, Rick Rubin, 2023
  25. The Crux, Richard Rumelt, 2023
  26. The SaaS Playbook, Rob Walling, 2023
  27. Tidy First, Kent Beck, 2023
  28. When Monsters Roar and Angels Sing, Hartmut Rosa, 2023

2022 15

  1. Shape Up staffing and process patterns v2
  2. Prototyping Case Study: Fillter.me
  3. Shape Up Track for Scrum - how to hack a process v2
  4. Raja Ampat - Travel Report
  5. unixtime.app - How I developed my own unix timestamp conversion tool to improve API developer workflows
  6. All the Heics
  7. PrusaPax: 3D Printer Setup in IKEA Pax Wardrobe with Twitch Livestream
  8. 4000 Weeks, Oliver Burkeman, 2022
  9. A Skill Called Luck, Jakob Greenfeld, 2022
  10. Effective Remote Work, James Stanier, 2022
  11. Home Made Russia, Damon Murry, 2022
  12. Learning to Build, Bob Moesta, 2022
  13. Plays Well with Others, Eric Barker, 2022
  14. The Big Book of Business Idea Prompts, Jakob Greenfeld, 2022
  15. The Practice of Groundedness, Brad Stulberg, 2022

2021 8

  1. Bug Triage
  2. Costa Rica - Travel Report
  3. A Philosophy of Software Design, John Ousterhout, 2021
  4. A World Without Email, Cal Newport, 2021
  5. Continuous Discovery Habits, Teresa Torres, 2021
  6. Effortless, Greg McKeown, 2021
  7. Is This Anything, Jerry Seinfeld, 2021
  8. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, Eric Jorgenson, 2021

2020 15

  1. Pocket-Highlights
  2. Second-system effect
  3. Run like hell
  4. Advice Trap, Michael Bungay Stanier, 2020
  5. Angstgetrieben., Jean Pierre Kraemer, 2020
  6. Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager, James Stanier, 2020
  7. Company of One, Jeff Jarvis, 2020
  8. Demand-Side Sales 101, Bob Moesta, 2020
  9. Die With Zero, Bill Perkins, 2020
  10. Forever Employable, Jeff Gothelf, 2020
  11. Hell Yeah or No, Derek Sivers, 2020
  12. How to Live, Derek Sivers, 2020
  13. Indistractable, Nir Eyal, 2020
  14. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein, 2020
  15. Shape Up, Ryan Singer, 2020

2019 7

  1. Existentialism for Beginners
  2. Thailand - Travel Report
  3. Clean Agile, Uncle Bob, 2019
  4. Lifespan, David Sinclair, 2019
  5. Radical Candor, Kim Scott, 2019
  6. Team Topologies, Skelton & Pais, 2019
  7. The Courage to Be Happy, Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga, 2019

2018 9

  1. Bali - Travel Report
  2. Zettel v1.0 - Shopping list prototyping - Google Spreadsheet
  3. What's in My Bag – 2018 Edition
  4. Atomic Habits, James Clear, 2018
  5. Clean Architecture, Uncle Bob, 2018
  6. Make Time, Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, 2018
  7. This is Marketing, Seth Godin, 2018
  8. Unverfügbarkeit, Hartmut Rosa, 2018
  9. Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker, 2018

2017 14

  1. Family Financial Organization
  2. trello-changelog
  3. mobile batch upload - Wordpress Plugin
  4. Interview Guide for Engineer and Developer Job Interviews
  5. Monospaced Fonts: Typefaces for Programmers
  6. The thing with feature requests and poor product management
  7. From Status Quo to Vision: Roadmap Template for Startups - with Booster Stages!
  8. Algorithms to Live By, Christian & Griffiths, 2017
  9. Das Zettelkasten-Prinzip, Söhnke Ahrens, 2017
  10. Good Strategy Bad Strategy, Richard Rumelt, 2017
  11. I've Got Time, Paul Loomans, 2017
  12. Neue Arbeit, neue Kultur, Frithjof Bergmann, 2017
  13. The Manual, Epictetus (Sam Torode), 2017
  14. The Meditations, Marcus Aurelius (Sam Torode), 2017

2016 16

  1. From Idea to Vision: Your Own Scope of Action as a Sliding Window
  2. The new X for Y - about startups that want to be platforms.
  3. No Time for Dirty Hacks: On Shortcuts in Product Development
  4. Growing Pains: Learnings of a Millennial Entrepreneur
  5. Project Study: creAce - Prototyping Process of a React Native Mobile App from Proof to Release
  6. Managing a Software Project Under Time Pressure With an Unknown Codebase
  7. Cold – The Little Man's Burn Out
  8. Developer Sourcing with Stack Overflow
  9. Global Developer Sourcing: Reasons and Process
  10. Checklist for Analyzing Existing Projects
  11. Competing Against Luck, Clayton M. Christensen, 2016
  12. Deep Work, Cal Newport, 2016
  13. Designing Products People Love, Scott Hurf, 2016
  14. Die Angst vor der Bedeutungslosigkeit, Carlo Strenger, 2016
  15. The Coaching Habit, Michael Bungay Stanier, 2016
  16. The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday, 2016

2015 8

  1. Is the Street of June 17th Closed .de
  2. enex-to-opml - Evernote Export
  3. Every Beginning Contains an End
  4. Push Ecosystem: Implications of the Apple Watch
  5. Practical Guide to Facebook Development
  6. Anything You Want, Derek Sivers, 2015
  7. The End of Average, Todd Rose, 2015
  8. Turn The Ship Around!, David Marquet, 2015

2014 14

  1. Dominican Republic - Travel Report
  2. Shoulder Ligament Rupture: Between Self-Pity and Screw It!
  3. Generation Raid – What Remained from Raiden in the Children's Room
  4. File organization and folder structures for companies
  5. Billing and contract types in agile software projects
  6. Implement the WhatsApp Share Button in HTML
  7. I've Become a Tea Person Again
  8. What distinguishes good processes from bad processes
  9. My Experience in the Formula 1 Simulator at Mercedes World in Berlin
  10. Don't Think of an Elephant, George Lakoff, 2014
  11. Essentialism, Greg McKeown, 2014
  12. Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, Sam Kaner, 2014
  13. Hallo ich bin Erik, Johannes Erler, 2014
  14. The Dude and the Zen Master, Jeff Bridges & Bernie Glassman, 2014

2013 4

  1. San Francisco - Travel Report
  2. Emotional Chaos to Clarity, Phillip Moffitt, 2013
  3. Selbst denken, Harald Welzer, 2013
  4. The Courage to Be Disliked, Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga, 2013

2012 4

  1. Faulheit, Manfred Koch, 2012
  2. Running Lean, Ash Maurya, 2012
  3. Several Short Sentences About Writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg, 2012
  4. So Good They Can't Ignore You, Cal Newport, 2012

2011 3

  1. Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are, J. Matthews, 2011
  2. The Decision Book, Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschaeppeler
  3. The Zen of Steve Jobs, 2011

2010 2

  1. Start Small, Stay Small, Rob Walling, 2010
  2. The Confidence Gap, Russ Harris, 2010

2008 2

  1. The Happiness Trap, Russ Harris, 2008
  2. Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Donella H. Meadows, 2008

2007 4

  1. How to Get Rich, Felix Dennis, 2007
  2. The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss, 2007
  3. The Dip, Seth Godin, 2007
  4. You, Inc., Harry Beckwith, Christine K. Clifford, 2007

2006 1

  1. Getting Real, Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, 2006

2005 1

  1. Blue Ocean Strategy, Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne, 2005

1990 1

  1. Are Your Lights On?, Donald C. Gause & Gerald M. Weinberg, 1990