Running a company of AI agents with Paperclip
An org chart of AI agents on the open-source control plane Paperclip, June 2026: the delegation rule, the human gate and four lessons from the first jobs.
Read the postBlog
Notes on my work and on the people I meet. Newest first.
Claude community Germany: meetups and workshops
Why Claude became my daily work tool, and what we teach at the Claude Hacker House workshops in Frankfurt since June 2026.
AI and the death of the (free) internet
ARTE's documentary on AI slop and bot content, and the question it leaves: whom do you trust online, where, and how?
Blockchains get a stage in everyday finance
Since January 2026 I write about digital assets, blockchains and crypto investing for Business Punk and its investment special Anlage Punk.
Creating a finance community
Finance Loop, the community for emerging technologies in finance I launched in January 2025: more than 3,000 members and around 15 events in 2025.
Joining the advisory committee for digital token identifiers
In May 2024 I joined the Product Advisory Committee of the Digital Token Identifier Foundation, the registration authority for ISO 24165.
Navigating a Startup Company
Market data and legal contracts: what I worked on as Chief Information Officer of a Frankfurt fintech in 2023.
DACOM EU 2023 in Paris
On October 19, 2023 I attended DACOM EU in Paris, a conference on MiCA and the regulation of crypto markets.
How You Create Great Digital Products
The three core skills I look for in product managers, written in March 2023.
Blockchains Require Financial Data
At the beginning of 2023 I supported the launch of an oracle service that lets data providers sell financial market data on blockchains.
CURL and localhost don't work
CURL inside a Docker container fails on localhost. The host name host.docker.internal solves it.
Many Websites Violate Data Protection Laws
What the problem with data protection on websites is, written in November 2022 from a German point of view.
SmartCon 2022 in New York City
At the end of September 2022 I attended SmartCon 2022, the Chainlink conference in New York City, as Head of DeFi.
Smart Contracts Require Smart Market Data
Smart contracts and decentralized exchanges need reliable reference prices. On May 3, 2022 a real-time market data product launched under my leadership.
Three Days at the Blockchance in Hamburg
My notes from Blockchance Europe 2021, the blockchain conference held from December 2 to 4, 2021 in the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce.
How Blockchains Will Change Our Lives
Most people have heard of Bitcoin by now. A post from July 2021 on why it pays to look at the other blockchains too.
Social Media Talk
On April 23, 2021 I gave an online presentation on social selling at Siemens AG, Central Region Germany.
The Market for Data Centers in Frankfurt Is Booming
Why Greater Frankfurt became a leading location for data centers, and what Interxion announced in July 2020 for the former Neckermann site.
Through Concentration and Focus to More Success
The second Management Lab at Policen Direkt on June 24, 2020 was about focus at work and Cal Newport's method of deep work.
AWS for the Insurance Industry
An interview from March 2020 with Volker Deppe, AWS account manager for insurers in Germany, on what the AWS cloud does for insurance companies.
Management Lab started successfully
On February 12, 2020 I attended the first Management Lab at Policen Direkt, a training series for employees who want to get better at management.
Use SOAP client in a Docker container
The SOAP client is not installed for many preconfigured Docker containers. This also applies to PHP Docker containers.
Which of the AWS certifications is the right one?
If you take a closer look at cloud technologies from AWS (Amazon Web Services), you will quickly reach your limits.
Important domain endings are missing in Route 53
Amazon Web Services has a route 53 domain registration service that does not allow Austrian customers to register domains with the .AT extension.
Turn off automatic translation of web pages in Chrome
The good news is: There is a meta tag that you as a website operator can install to switch off automatic translation ("Translate this Page").
.NET Meetup Frankfurt, Web Development using Docker and Angular
On November 5, 2019, SDX AG invited to a DOTNET event held at Frankfurt's Westhafen.
Moving Domains and TTL
If one sets the nameserver TTL too high when moving a domain by means of a domain transfer, one risks downtimes of all services such as websites and e-mail.
AWS Partner Summit Frankfurt 2019
The AWS Partner Summit 2019 took place in Frankfurt, Germany. AWS experts from around the world discussed AWS solutions and especially AI and ML topics.
Black Hat 2019
In August 2019 I visited Black Hat USA in Las Vegas, a security conference that has been held for around 25 years.
No broken WordPress pages anymore
Sooner or later, the die-hard blogger will reach its limits. Either the chosen theme or an installed plugin causes problems.
AWS Transfer for SFTP, Problem and Complicated
Those who work in IT may know ad hoc requests of this kind: "We need an FTP server for a cooperation partner quickly," was the rough request.
Scrum: Sprint Retrospective vs Sprint Review
Sprint retrospective and sprint review are two Scrum terms that teams mix up. A short explanation of both.
Many Projects Fail on a Small Scale
Over and over I am faced with the challenge of improving or evaluating things in my professional life. Typical questions are often the same:
CURL and Elasticsearch
If you want to connect to Elasticsearch from the Linux command line, you can do that with CURL, for example. The default port of Elasticsearch is Port 9200:
Elastic Stack and Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack (formerly known as ELK Stack) have been around for some years now, for almost half an eternity in the life of someone in IT.
Instagram Marketing 2019
How Instagram works in 2019 and what it takes to succeed there, after several months of using it.
Docker training courses completed
Docker is a software technology that makes developing and deploying applications different than in the past.
AWS in productive use
Since autumn 2018 I have used AWS in production, after looking after virtual servers at Hetzner before.