Human Learning

Hi, I decided to add another post to this year’s recap. After I described my three key learnings from my failed startup endeavor, I wasn’t feeling finished or satisfied. Overall I’m not satisfied with what I learned this year. It feels very shallow without any hard skills behind it. In every year of my life, I learned a lot, independent of the later usefulness, but at least I can say, that I moved forward. This year, I don’t feel like this. As Confucius said: “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” My learnings weren’t helpful at all and they came from experience. To sum it up, the ratio of effort and outcome was very low and I definitely can do better. ...

Hi, This year was an interesting learning experience. I tried to commercialize a product, which in the end was much harder than expected. As a short summary, the first attempt failed, because I couldn’t figure out how to sell the product. The pivot failed, because multiple big corporates released a similar product. Also the goal was to get 1-2 customers to build a MVP before looking for funding and so on. So I never incorporated the idea into a company. Basically, I failed already on the first meter, but this saved a lot of time. So I only invested 7 months. 🥲 ...