Friends

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Here are some friends of mine on the Internet:

  • Friederike Gonzalez Schmitz, my wonderful wife! She helps people make a good impression on LinkedIn. Check out her LinkedIn profile as well. (Both pages in German.)
  • Rolf Kersten. Interesting things about energy: generation, storage, consumption, and more. (German, too.)
  • Henrik Wist. He runs, he bikes and he codes.
  • Alex Sinner. Reflections, observations and insights for leaders, from a former AWS colleague.
  • Adrian Cockcroft. We worked together at Sun, and later at AWS, too.

More wonderful people I’ve met, virtually or in real life, who you should follow, too:

  • Tim Bray. One of the original Sun bloggers from way back, when blogging was a new thing.
  • Derek Sivers. A modern philosopher and polymath, and one of the most approachable Internet celebrities I know.
  • Seth Godin. Remarkable daily wisdom that lets you reflect on surprisingly simple, yet profound things.

Thanks to Nick Gray, who nudged me into writing this page for his slashfriends initiative, which is a nice way to bring back the good old days of blogrolls!