Handpicked Berlin

Your weekly Berlin briefing — news, tech, business and culture.
Curated by Igor Ranc.

Newsletter issues

May 11, 2026

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6 min read

#197: what's your pension situation?

🪵 things are progressing nicely: now the newsletters are so big that it’s very hard not to offend or at least annoy someone with each issue.

Igor Ranc

May 4, 2026

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7 min read

#196: will you start skipping restaurants?

🧢 It’s hard to believe, but the first Handpicked Berlin issue was sent almost exactly 4 years ago

Igor Ranc

Apr 30, 2026

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1 min read

Salary Trends 2026 results are here

Ok, most of it. 🎉

Igor Ranc

Apr 20, 2026

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6 min read

#195: does Berlin have a trash problem?

👞 I am going to take the next week off to burn some tokens, so this is the last Monday issue before May 4th.

Igor Ranc

Apr 13, 2026

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13 min read

#194: are you German or autistic?

🥸 I’ve received a couple of messages about the subject line drawing the interest, but then being buried in the newsletter and people struggling to find it.

Igor Ranc

Apr 7, 2026

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12 min read

#193: what's the median salary in Germany?

I started to work on Salary trends analysis and am happy to report that the data has quite a good quality and that we collected over 4,500 responses.

Igor Ranc

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