🗂️ Best of Handpicked in March 2024

A month has passed, and here is the collection again. A roundup of my favourite snippets, up to 6 per week or more. Thank you so much for your support! ❤️ You can also easily navigate to each issue by clicking on the title.

I’ve been really busy with Salary Trends survey. I’ll return to the regular format next month.

Week of 4th (issue #91)

1. 📴 I published an article on an experiment on decreasing screen time: Who else wants to cut their screen time? (You can still join our WhatsApp grup)

2. 💅 Share of non-Germans in Berlin grew to 24.4% by the end of 2023. Foreigners congregate: 16 different nationalities were #1 in 542 different planning areas. You can read more and explore the map of top nationality per “planning area” here. (🇩🇪)

3. 🌬️ I was happy to see that the air in Berlin is not such a disaster. We are at #2060 worst worldwide based on historical ranking. I set the filter for Germany (#15 worst) for you to check around. The easiest is to use the “city” search bar far right.

4. 🎥 The market is tough. Now what did Marta do to stand out? A video about herself - and a very good one. My bekannte did something similar ten years ago, but simpler, and it also worked wonders.

5. ✅ I randomly discovered this chap using a neverending .txt file as a todo list and found the idea intriguing. So I set up something similar for myself in Notes, and after a week of testing, it really does work well. Here are also some good “How to manage” todos ideas from Zapier’s blog.

6. Reddit choices of the week are this advice on how to deal with a bad Schufa rating and a very long thread on industry “secrets” people know that most people don’t. 😳

7. 💬 Briefly:

   1. DeepL, one of the best German tech companies, is expanding to the US via Austin. Careers.