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29. Juli 2021

In the past couple of months, we have digested some deep and sometimes dark topics here. So I felt like it was time for a very different story. And since the majority voted for it in the last newsletter, let's talk about FUN 🙂 13 years ago I broke up with my high-school boyfriend whom I had been living with for a couple of years. "When we'll have kids, I am going to be the fun dad and you are going to be the serious mom.", he said one day. It was meant as a joke, but at the same time it wasn't. It was the most condensed mental model of how he perceived our roles, even without being parents back then. Me doing the dishes,...

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16. Juli 2021

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A few weeks ago, my former student Antonia reflected on Linkedin about her habit of outing herself in new groups as pet lover and nerd - even in a professional context. So she was asking herself: "Where’s your line between personal and work life? How much of yourself do you show your colleagues? Has it ever backfired? Or have you ever benefited from it?" Unconsciously, this was the starting point of today's post, but it didn't bubble up until after I had published my last "Butterflies" about FILTERS talking about highly sensitive people. Writing it brought back a recent episode where I was asked to fill out an application form for Maya's kindergarden. I reached the comment section where we were supposed to mention any additional...

Filters

25. Juni 2021

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Back in 2013, I stumbled across a website called Paper.li that invited you to create your personalized topic-based digital newspaper. It would then feature a couple of articles and tweets on the subjects you selected and provide a nice daily morning read. This is an example of curated content, a phenomenon that has been on the rise for more than a decade now. It can take many forms, ranging from "a single room with a single book" (a tiny bookstore in Ginza that sells only one book per week, hand-picked by its owner) to The Browser, a newsletter featuring five outstanding stories per day from thousends of articles. With individual voices trumping established brands more and more in the war for attention, even big social media players like...

Detox

28. Mai 2021

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This month, I set out to write about detoxing, but looking at the last couple of weeks in my life what I truly want to write about is boundaries. Boundaries that keep us from each other, some in good ways, some in unhealthy manners. So how to gently merge those two topics? It's actually not that hard when you come to think about it. Let's look at it ethymologically: detoxing means getting rid of toxines. A toxine is a harmful substance, but you know what Paracelsus said: " The dose makes the poison." So in the end, our desire to detox is nothing but the realization that we overstepped some sort of boundaries too many times. When we talk about detoxing, we typically think of freeing our bodies from waste...

Taboos

23. April 2021

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A couple of weeks ago, a relative's big birthday was coming up. My family and some of our close relatives agreed to prepare a rather expensive gift in light of this celebration and as a thank you for many occasions in which we received presents and support from this person in the past. While it was meant as a sweet gesture, we ended up in a rather awkward situation where our relative publicly refused to accept the gift. Instead, she decided to give away most parts of her present in front of us and cut off all the bills I had neatly folded as butterflies and spread across her fruit basket. To paint the full picture you need to know that she comes from a different culture...

Freedom

25. März 2021

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In school there were few subjects I really hated, but somehow physics ended up being one of them. Therefore when my husband (who is a railway engineer) starts talking about anything too techy, my brain instantly wants to shut off. The other night, however, we ended up talking about the "degree of freedom" which apparently is a thing in physics ;-) I even looked it up: "In physics, the degrees of freedom (DOF) of a mechanical system is the number of independent parameters that define its configuration or state." (Wikipedia) Please bear with me ;-) So in a nutshell, what I took away from the article is the question: in which directions is a body able to move? (Physicists, don't hate me for this rather naive summary...

Metamorphosis

25. Februar 2021

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Lately I have been falling asleep with the kids around 8 pm on a regular basis. During the day, my head is foggy and I am low on energy. I heard that some of you are experiencing the same. To me it feels like I am currently pupating in a little cocoon of mine. The other day I was talking about this with my dear friend Eva and we were joking around: At the end of this crisis, are we going to turn into beautiful butterflies or just come out as really fat and hairy caterpillars? :-)In any case, the pandemic is making me crawl back inside myself. And what I found there is my seven-year-old self, snuggled into a blanket reading everything she could get her...

Good-bye 2020, hello 2021. Chasing butterflies!

31. Dezember 2020

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2020 – you’ve been a hell of a year. Untamed, weird and challenging. Throwing us back on ourselves. Showing us what is means to not take anything for granted. Digging up so much hate and love in mankind, forcing us to show our true colors, values and vulnerability. Those of you who read my review of 2019 know that I had set two focus areas for myself in 2020: Holism: Digging deeper into how everything in life is connected. Detoxing: letting go of beliefs and habits (maybe also people) that are not fueling my energy and matching my values. Looking back, I am happy that I managed to integrate both topics into my learning journey this year, although partly in other ways than I had anticipated. Holism is a concept...

Good-bye, 2019: lots of changes, lots of great new people in my life.

29. Dezember 2019

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With every call of life, the heart must be ready to part and start again, in courage and joy, surrendering to new, otherly liasons, as In the core of every beginning lives magic Magic that protects us and helps us live. Hermann Hesse, Stufen 2019 has been a year of fresh starts. Most of them have been quite familiar from the past: moving houses, starting new jobs, even having a newborn at home. However, as Heraclit says: “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” So by reliving many moments from the past in an entirely new context, I learned a lot this year: Being a mom of two, does not equal kids x 2, but kids2: Like every...

2019

Good-bye 2018, Hello 2019 – Moving on.

31. Dezember 2018

Allgemein, News, Privat, Product Management

Good-bye siroop! Finding closure What a ride it has been. After joining this audacious company as one of the very first employees in 2015, I decided to quit my position as Head of Product at siroop at the end of 2017. I had dedicated all my passion and a considerable chunk of my time to building this new marketplace in Switzerland. Over 200 siroopies, hundreds of merchants and more than 350'000 customers had joined us along the way. However, after commuting three hours a day, managing daycare logistics and organizing a wedding, I realized it was time to get my priorities straight and spend more quality time with my family. Leaving siroop was hard. I had found wonderful friends, sparring partners and talented team mates there. We fought together, we made...

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