Jodok Batlogghttps://batlogg.com/https://batlogg.com/2020/01/facebook-the-end/https://batlogg.com/2020/01/facebook-the-end/I was thinking about quitting Facebook already for a long time. But I didn’t have the guts to do so. But now I finally quit smoking Facebook. Today I saw the Twitter thread (german) about our wonderful Minister of...Fri, 17 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTpoliticsprivacyfacebookhttps://batlogg.com/2020/01/how-to-crate/https://batlogg.com/2020/01/how-to-crate/Hi, welcome to the team. I’m so glad you are here at Crate. You’re now a Cratie! You’ll need at least one cycle to figure this place out. Maybe even two cycles. That’s totally o.k. – take your time. Uh? a cycle? What’s...Wed, 22 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTcratecultureentrepreneurshipcrate.ioexpectationsmeetingsnorth-starpillarsrands-in-reposevalueshttps://batlogg.com/2020/02/me-an-oldskool-sql-fanboi/https://batlogg.com/2020/02/me-an-oldskool-sql-fanboi/Recently I came across this tweet of Steve O’Grady (he helped to found Redmonk, a research firm I really value highly)Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMTcratetechnologycrate.ionosqlsqlhttps://batlogg.com/2020/04/podcast-distributed-databases-and-product-market-fit/https://batlogg.com/2020/04/podcast-distributed-databases-and-product-market-fit/I had the opportunity to record an episode of the “Digitale Leute Podcast” with my friend Oliver Thielmann from Giant Swarm and would like to reshare it here as well: Why industrial IoT startup Crate.io can easily do...Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTcrateentrepreneurshipcrate.iopodcastproductstartuphttps://batlogg.com/2020/09/podcast-von-der-idee-zum-unternehmen/https://batlogg.com/2020/09/podcast-von-der-idee-zum-unternehmen/Mein Freund Boris Gloger ist ein besonderer Mensch. Mich verbinden viele Sachen mit ihm. Wir wollten und wollen immer noch mehr gemeinsam unternehmen. Ein erster kleiner Schritt ist, dass wir es endlich geschafft...Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMTcultureentrepreneurshipmotivationpodcastvideohttps://batlogg.com/2020/09/video-on-a-tree/https://batlogg.com/2020/09/video-on-a-tree/A couple of weeks ago my friend “Menze” a.k.a. Gerhard Beer from Hittisau introduced me to the great people from Digital Instinct. As many of us they were impacted by COVID 19 as well. However every challenge also...Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMTmotivationprinciplessustainabilityvideohttps://batlogg.com/2021/02/pitching-und-raising-capital/https://batlogg.com/2021/02/pitching-und-raising-capital/Über die letzten 7 Jahre – während ich Crate gegründet und mit aufgebaut habe – hatte ich über zahlreiche Finanzierungsrunden Gelegenheit Pitches zu üben und zu “delivern”. Ich habe mich sehr gefreut, darüber mit Boris...Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTentrepreneurshipvcpodcasthttps://batlogg.com/2020/11/servus-and-thank-you/https://batlogg.com/2020/11/servus-and-thank-you/This has originally been posted on the Crate.io blog end of September 2020. Today I’m announcing my departure from Crate.io, the company I cofounded 7+ years ago and have been building together with a great team. I’ve...Thu, 26 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMTentrepreneurshiphttps://batlogg.com/2020/01/all-beginnings/https://batlogg.com/2020/01/all-beginnings/…are hard. But if you don’t begin, you’ll never end up somewhere. This the first post on my shiny new blog. huzzah! I’ll write down what moves me, what I’m thinking about, what I want to share, what I want to remember...Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTprivacyweblogappleduckduckgofacebookfirefoxfirstgooglestudivztwitterhttps://batlogg.com/2020/01/import-this/https://batlogg.com/2020/01/import-this/I like a lot of the principles that are built into the programming language Python. Some of the principles are also applicable to “real” life. They’re a bit hidden and most people don’t know them and have never seen...Sat, 18 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTcodingprinciplespythonzenhttps://batlogg.com/2020/01/leaving-whatsapp/https://batlogg.com/2020/01/leaving-whatsapp/TL;DR: I’m deleting my Whatsapp account. You can still reach me viaSignal(iOS,Android), phone, SMS/iMessage,E Mailor onTwitter.Bye, bye. Undoubtfully – it’s a very handy tool. More than 1.5 billion people use it. Free...Sat, 25 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTprivacyfacebooksignalwhatsapphttps://batlogg.com/2020/01/liebe-ist/https://batlogg.com/2020/01/liebe-ist/(especially after being a long time outside in the cold) What is love? It’s easy to say: I love my wife, I love my job, I love Pizza or I love this music. How valid are the ancient, greek definitions family love...Thu, 16 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTentrepreneurshipmotivationleadershiplovehttps://batlogg.com/2020/01/tsundoku/https://batlogg.com/2020/01/tsundoku/Each language has some special words that can’t be translated to other languages. I think this expresses a lot the culture of these countries and people. Japanese seems to be very powerful when it comes to describe...Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTbooksjapanesereadingwordshttps://batlogg.com/2020/02/shot-on-an-iphone-11-pro/https://batlogg.com/2020/02/shot-on-an-iphone-11-pro/The iPhone 11 Pro camera is just amazing. I’m no longer on Instagram, account dormant for 2 month (soon to be deleted). Therefor I wanted to share a few shots. I’m impressed when I see how much the quality of the...Sun, 23 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMTphotographydarkiphonenightphotoskiwinterhttps://batlogg.com/2021/04/removing-animations-in-powerpoint/https://batlogg.com/2021/04/removing-animations-in-powerpoint/Something totally different, but hopefully this will save another Entrepreneur using some PowerPoint Templates (I’m using the Voodoo Presentation from TemplateZuu right now) some precious hours. While it’s handy to...Thu, 29 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMTcodingpowerpointvisual basichttps://batlogg.com/2021/04/the-marks-of-a-rational-person/https://batlogg.com/2021/04/the-marks-of-a-rational-person/Over the past 6 months I’ve been in the luxury position to take time to further center myself and better live my equilibrium. Among other things I’ve continued to dive into stoicism (a journey that will never end)....Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMTbookscultureprinciplesbasecampdecisionsstoichttps://batlogg.com/2021/11/just-do-it/https://batlogg.com/2021/11/just-do-it/Wir leben an einem der privilegiertesten Orte dieser Welt. Wir haben eine große Verantwortung für zukünftige Generationen. Deshalb nimm‘s in die Hand: Trau dich! Es wird niemand anderer für dich machen.Some of my...Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMTcultureentrepreneurshipfood for thoughtdornbirnfuturegreenselforganisationsmartcityhttps://batlogg.com/2021/05/fuck-the-bread-the-bread-is-over/https://batlogg.com/2021/05/fuck-the-bread-the-bread-is-over/Please take a couple of minutes and read the fabulous essay Sabrina Orah Mark wrote in her Happily Column. Her Blog focuses on fairy tales and motherhood. Within the many things that resonate in her post, one thing...Thu, 13 May 2021 00:00:00 GMTculturelearningmotivationprinciplesconventionsfairytalehttps://batlogg.com/2021/05/why-people-quit/https://batlogg.com/2021/05/why-people-quit/I received some feedback and questions about my post on leadership decisions at a workplace, and why I believe that many societal and political topics don’t belong to my workplace. (A clarifying side note: I wasn’t...Tue, 04 May 2021 00:00:00 GMTcultureentrepreneurshipprinciplesbasecampquithttps://batlogg.com/2022/03/saving-the-climate-with-entrepreneurship/https://batlogg.com/2022/03/saving-the-climate-with-entrepreneurship/I had the opportunity to speak at TEDxDornbirn about my journey as (serial) entrepreneur and my latest venture Tree.ly, ensuring optimal carbon storage in our forests. I’m also giving more intimate insights why I’m...Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMTclimate changeentrepreneurshipfood for thoughtsustainabilitytree.lytedxvideohttps://batlogg.com/2022/03/the-power-of-datascience/https://batlogg.com/2022/03/the-power-of-datascience/TLDR;: I’m member of the board of directors of Alphacruncher, the EdTech startup building nuvolos.cloud. We’ve just raised CHF 1.5M to rock the EdTech space. I’m a natural scientist by education. I do my best to...Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMTentrepreneurshiptechnologyvcadvisingedtechfundingstartuphttps://batlogg.com/2023/04/cv-des-scheiterns/https://batlogg.com/2023/04/cv-des-scheiterns/Die “Scheitern” Ausgabe des Neue Narrative Magazin startet mit den “CVs des Scheiterns” der Autor:innen. Dabei berichten Sebastian Klein, Laura Erler, Paul Fenski, Emma Marx, Taraneh Taheri und Dominik Wagner...Sun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMTculturefood for thoughtprincipleshttps://batlogg.com/2023/04/meine-neue-welt/https://batlogg.com/2023/04/meine-neue-welt/Ich war das letzte Jahr viel beschäftigt. In positiver Hinsicht. Die Entscheidung – mich ausschließlich um Zukunftsthemen zu widmen fühlt sich immer noch richtig an. Ich lerne jeden Tag und beschäftige mich mit super...Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMTcultureentrepreneurshiphttps://batlogg.com/2023/08/recalibrate-a-new-work-schedule/https://batlogg.com/2023/08/recalibrate-a-new-work-schedule/How I’m trying to recalibrate myself and my work schedule to focus more on important, longer-term items and less on urgent day-to-day stuff.Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMTentrepreneurshipprinciplestree.lyhttps://batlogg.com/2026/03/leadership-is-a-decision-system/https://batlogg.com/2026/03/leadership-is-a-decision-system/Most leadership problems are design problems. Here is how I think about decisions, ownership, and the contract between leaders and teams.Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTleadershipentrepreneurshipprinciples