This is the amount the world has spent in 2022 for world military expenditure. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published this data today. This is a 3.7% growth in real terms, a 19% growth over the last 10 years. US, China, India, Russia and Saudi Arabia together account…
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7 months of training – done
Here it is…the final stretch to my endurance race next Saturday. Yesterday, I finished my last harder session here in Girona and it went good. I selected the climb to Rocacorba as this final session – 13,5km, 7% Grade, 900 m altitude – and 70km around it.I did what I…
United States of America…
When started my business life, I worked for American companies and in the decades to follow I continued working for American companies. As a consequence, I had the opportunity to visit the US many many times (100+ times). I could visit many cities and travel the country from left to…
Cycling today 🤟🏽💪👍
Today was an amazing biking day. Beautiful weather, just around 20+ degrees, a climb that was really long, but with reasonable grade and steady growing, wind that somehow was in my favor (the last 25km it blow me basically home) and with nutrition that was just about right for the…
Sentiment without actions is the ruin of the soul
Yesterday I came across this statement. It is from Douglas Tompkins. Until a couple of days ago, I never heard from this guy (maybe shame on me…). He was an American entrepreneur, environmentalist, agriculturist, film maker and conservationist. He founded „North Face“ and co-founded „Esprit“, but from his his very…
Is it important to be ethical and respectful?
Over the last couple of days I am following a public debate about the owner and CEO of the Springer Verlag, Mathias Döpfner. He has always been a controversial public figure and at the age of 60 he is still leading and owning one of the most influential publisher companies…
Bojan Slat – having impact
On 7th April the Ocean Cleanup non-profit organisation accomplished a milestone of 200.000 kg of plastic removed from the ocean.It all started as a vision from Bojan Slat to get plastic out of the Ocean in 2011, when he was 16. Since then, he achieved with his team to introduce…
Easter marches
A quick one: During the easter time we have a tradition across the world to demonstrate for peace. These marches are called “easter marches” and during different times they had been more or less popular.With a focus on the Ukraine war, these marches are demonstrating for peace and ending the…
Happiness
Happiness is something I think about a lot these weeks. What is happiness? Is it the same for everybody? Can it be kept? Is it plan-able? Is it coincidence?First thing I start to recognise is, that happiness is a fragil condition. While you can achieve satisfaction and keep it over…