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The new year is already a bit more than a week old, and of course, I haven't put any of my New Year's resolutions into action so far.
It's almost a tradition at this point. My Peloton Bike has been sitting around as a decoration for almost a year now – but it still serves its purpose with flair.
I'm putting another resolution into action right now with brave keystrokes: I'm blogging again. I can't really say why I chose Substack. I've had blogs on Medium, an old one on WordPress, and even on my own website. But somehow, most people whose articles I'm interested in seem to hang out on Substack anyway, and maybe I just want to "fit in."
Perhaps this resolution also has something to do with a new chapter in my life. I quit my job as a producer in the newsroom of a major cable network and am starting these days as an executive producer at Axel Springer, where I'll be heading the Wars and Conflicts depart
ment. It might sound like a pretty dark subject at first glance, but it's actually not far from my background. As a photojournalist, I documented major crises and armed conflicts worldwide between 2014 and 2018. From the annexation of Crimea by Russia to the revolution in Cairo or the Gaza war in 2014. Eventually, I hung up the life of living out of a suitcase between trenches and check-ins for the sake of my family. I'm excited to be able to take over the editorial leadership of the department from my office in Munich.
And now we're already getting into the topics that the avid reader can expect in this blog. I edit all the posts myself, including After Effects and Color Correction. Video and image editing on Macs are some of the subjects I'll be writing about here. But also, workflow and home office optimizations; after all, I'm quite a stickler when it comes to the perfect workspace or maximizing process efficiency. You wouldn't believe how many apps on this topic were installed on my various devices. Getting Things Done – I love it!
However, technical excursions into the world of multimedia production will surely also give the usual suspects like Trump and Musk a run for their money here and there. Simply because I want to be able to say, at least in retrospect, that I was part of the resistance back then. And as a proud Geek Dad, many of my interests revolve around nerd topics, so there will be plenty of that too.
As Bill Watterson once said, "God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now, I am so far behind that I will never die," and he was probably right.