In 2007 he wrote on his blog:

That latter path can be hard to find, because it is only satisfied by creating ideas or inventions that have a global impact. Perhaps I have found one, and there’s others out there, but for most people of your character a combination of eschewing knowledge of those parts of the world they can’t change, and robust engagement with the parts they can is probably optimal.

On the success of his book ‘Do it Tomorrow:

I think the most radical idea in the book is the idea that you can actually identify what one day’s work is. Once you have identified that you can then tell whether your work load and the time available to deal with it are matched

And always ready to see the funny side of things:

What is the difference between a swamp and a river? The water in both is exactly the same water…

Good read, all in all.

(via Mark Forster)

In einem offenem Brief teilen Auweier Unhold & Partner folgende Sachlage mit:

Die erschütternden, unfassbaren Bilder und Bewegtbilder von Zerstörung und menschlichem Leid mit musikalischer Stimmungmache anzureichern, halten wir für einen unerträglichen, journalistischen Super-, nein: Mega-, nein: Hyper-GAU.

Insbesondere als Werbeagentur sehen wir uns moralisch in der Pflicht, in diesem Fall entschieden einzugreifen.

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In Absprache mit unserem Kunden Miezi’s Katzen Content haben wir beschlossen, mit sofortiger Wirkung unseren Media-Etat von allen TV-Sendern abzuziehen, die sich weiterhin als Katastrophen-DJs hervortun.

It expresses nicely what I think:

I haven’t taken Wired seriously since before the dot-com bust. They abandoned all pretense of being countercultural when they put Bill Gates on the cover, and they proved they’d lost their technical savvy when they declared push technology the Next Big Thing.