Life

This is a collection of thoughts and advice on a wide range of topics, updated whenever I think of something new. It is very much work-in-progress.

Sport

I enjoy all kinds of outdoor sports, in particular trail running, mountain biking and ski mountaineering. There are a few books that I can highly recommend if you’re into mountaineering:

3x3 Lawinen: Risikomanagement im Wintersport (German only)
Sicherheit und Risiko in Fels und Eis (Germany only)

If your winter home base is in the Austrian, Italian, or German Alps, I can also highly recommend the annual Lawinenupdate by the Austrian Alpine Club.

Competitions

May 2025: Innsbruck Alpine Trail 35k (5:22h)
April 2025: Rab GAPA Trail 25k (3:05h)
May 2023: Regensburg Marathon 42k (3:34h)
May 2022: Regensburg Halbmarathon 21k (1:33h)
October 2019: München Marathon 42k (3:29h)
June 2019: Mayerhofen Ultraks 50k (8:22h)

Podcasts

Below is a list of Podcasts that I enjoy listening to and which I thought others might find useful:

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast Launched only in 2023, Latent Space is a technical newsletter / podcast that goes extremely deep into the business / tech topics of the AI industry (Link)
The TWIML AI Podcast A great podcast that publishes interesting stories and latest developments in the area of machine learning and AI (Link)
Risky Business Weekly update on news in the Information Security industry (Link)
Xadrez Verbal A bi-weekly podcast in Portuguese that covers politics, history and news in general (Link)
Radio Ambulante A Spanish-speaking podcast produced by NPR that publishes short stories about the history of Latin America (Link)

IT Security

I have been running my own VPN server for multiple years now. Algo makes it extremely easy to spin-up your own IPsec VPN server in the cloud and comes with a reasonable set of defaults, so it’s definitely worth to give it a try instead of relying on a commercial VPN service.

Travel Map

This map gives an overview of the countries that I have visited (48 countries so far!):