What’s Constantin doing now?

A whimsical solarpunk illustration of a sunlit valley framed by canyon cliffs, where nature and friendly technology blend together. A glowing blue stream shaped like a digital sine wave winds from the background to the front, threading the whole scene together. In the foreground, a black-and-tan dachshund trots along a stone path with a leash in its mouth, cheerfully walking a tiny laughing human — a playful role reversal — while softly glowing barefoot footprints mark the trail. On the left, a graceful bridge woven from vines and roots arcs across a deep chasm. On the right sits a cozy cooperative farm-market stall overflowing with carrots and fresh vegetables, fermentation jars, a small festive “5” anniversary banner, and a sparkling disco ball, with a picnic blanket resting by the stream. Iridescent flowers shaped like play buttons bloom in the trees, origami paper-envelope birds flutter through the air, and a music groovebox sprouting vines hums beside a glowing Bluetooth symbol and floating notes. In the distance, a wooden aqueduct and waterwheel carry little glowing packets of light up toward a soft cloud. Warm golden light and magical sparkles fill the dreamy scene.

(This is a Now page. If you like the concept, why not set up one for yourself, too?)

Updated July 5th, 2026. (Older versions: 2026-06-14, 2026-02-10, 2025-11-28, 2025-10-16, 2025-07-23, 2025-06-30, 2025-06-11.)

In no particular order. Also, this page was not written by AI — I just happen to like emojis and proper emdashes.

Building a mailing list 📧

In the age of social media, algorithms and AI, I think real connections between real people are going to become more valuable than ever. Therefore, I’m starting a mailing list. There’s no platform or algorithm or anything else that stands between mailing list subscribers and me, that’s what makes email unique. In Germany, it’s surprisingly complicated, given GDPR and my aversion to cookies, but I managed to set the automation up, which you can find on the sidebar of this site. Now, looking forward to getting to know who signs up! Meanwhile, I’ve sent out 3 issues, and new subscribers are slowly signing up. Most of my traffic/engagement seem to happen on LinkedIn or other social networks, so I’ll focus on doing more POSSE to drive more readers to my actual home page. Subscribe here!

YouTube channel 🎥

Here it is: @Constant.Thinking on YouTube. There are 22 videos and 101 subscribers so far, with a wide range of view counts, from 3 to 2.5K. The YouTube algorithm is a very weird one and I see this as a marathon. It’s too early to settle on a niche yet, if I ever will, other than posting videos on AI, productivity and carreer building. I have managed to post consistently 1 video per week for a while, but need to find better ways to continue creating videos while claiming back some of my time for other things as well. I’m not going to become a “YouTube employee”, so I will now post a video only when I like and have the time.

Blogging more often👨🏻‍💻

After quitting my job at AWS, refactoring my blog, I’m still tweaking some of its bits. Recently, I added a seasonal summer animation to the header of the main home page and went into a bit of a “code health” spree under the hood: the blog now builds and deploys itself through a proper CI/CD pipeline (GitHub → AWS, fully unattended), with fixed redirects, tighter security, and a lot less manual fiddling. It’s also easier now for readers to discover newer content and follow my articles where they like, be it on social platforms, RSS or through my newsletter.

Joined a consulting company 💼

It’s called Disruption Selling and it’s more like a platform for consultants to operate from. We support startups and established companies who want to cross the proverbial chasm with their innovative products. Every member has “been there, done that, got the scars”, so we now want to help others do the same. I’m not in sales, nor have I been. In fact, I’m the only tech member at the moment, hoping to bring a bit more tech focus into the team. Right now I’m the advising a handful of tech leaders at fast-growing startups around public speaking, leadership, and the occasional architecture debate. As the team grows, I’m also getting more involved on the partner side.

Celebrating 5 years of FoodHub 🥕

I’m a member of FoodHub München, a supermarket cooperative where members co-own the store and work a few hours each month in exchange for better, more fair prices. This July it turns five — from a wild idea about making food fairer, more affordable, and more community-driven into a living co-op with over 2,700 members. There’s a whole anniversary week (July 13–19) with producer tastings, a fermentation workshop, a choir, “disco shopping” (yes, really 🪩), and a picnic by the Isar river. That week the shop opens its doors to non-members too, so if you’re in Munich and ever wondered what a solidarity supermarket feels like, come by. You might even be catching me there doing my shift!

Learning how to educate our dachshund Elvis 🐾

TL;DR: You can’t 😀.

Well, they have a strong personality, which is a good thing! So now, we’re learning how to at least influence them. Elvis is super sweet and adorable, he’s also a young adult now, by Dachshund standards, so, fun times!

But he’s making progress! He doesn’t bark at other dogs as much as he used to, and the constant pulling at the leash is starting to become more, let’s say, controlled. But bicycles and e-scooters are still strong triggers for a Doberman-scale round of barking.

I also learned: You don’t walk a dachshund. Dachshunds take their can openers out for a walk…

Learning to Move 🎛️

Not the physical movement, but the new Groovebox by Ableton. It’s a very fun and powerful device and I’d like to use more of its potential, so I’m now using it whenever I make music with friends. I’ll also spend more time with it alone to learn the ins and outs. I recently bought a CME WIDI Bud Pro—a MIDI-over-Bluetooth interface that’s compatible with my Move, so I can connect it to my laptop and Ableton Live running on it. Let’s see what I can do with this combo!

Work out more 🦶

My go-to workout option is barefoot running. But when it’s too cold outside, I do some workouts at home using Apple Fitness. Now that I have a bit more time, I’ll do this more often, and also add some strength training to it. I also do my daily 30 push-ups every morning religiously, which gives me a good baseline no matter what the rest of the day brings.

That’s it! I have a perioic reminder to regularly update this page, so check back here in a few weeks. What are you doing now?