Handpicked Berlin

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

Newsletter issues

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

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

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

Mar 30, 2026

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13 min read

#192: does the Görli fence make sense?

🧶 Without checking the data quality at all, the Salary Trends 2026 will be a major upgrade over 2025. By last Friday, we had 4000+ submissions...

Igor Ranc

Mar 23, 2026

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15 min read

#191: how to bring rents down?

🚀 I am taking a short break, but it wasn’t a properly planned vacation, so I still need to work. But this is fine, because I love my job.

Igor Ranc

Mar 16, 2026

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12 min read

#190: what's this demo about?

🏓 I was just thinking how crazy 2026 has been so far in almost every sense...

Igor Ranc

Mar 9, 2026

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13 min read

#189: why is the Smiley Portal gone?

Salary Trends had a good first week, and I’d be happy if you could share it with your friends/WhatsApp group or your team (nothing better than a good Slack channel post, HR is gonna love you!)

Igor Ranc