Annual award since 1985
People Magazine’s recognition of the Sexiest Man Alive is weird…
I like women. I always have… I married a pretty fine one. That doesn’t mean that I don’t appreciate male beauty though. May that be a handsome actor on the big screen, or a man on the streets outside.
I recently stumbled upon an article about the Sexiest Man Alive 2020. And I read it with a surprising amount of interest. So I thought this might be worth sharing.
Background
Sexiest Man Alive is an award, or let’s call it a recognition, by People Magazine. People is an American magazine about celebrities, gossip, Hollywood, all that good stuff. I had never…
One link to rule them all
And what you should use instead
We’ve all seen it. This little link on Instagram that says linktr.ee/name. Maybe you’ve seen other ones as well: linkin.bio/name, tap.bio/name. These are all similar tools that have one thing in common: They want to be the starting page, a reference point to all your social media links and URLs. A simple concept, a great tool… but is there a better way?
What Is Linktree?
Founded in 2016, Linktree is now the king of bios with over eight million users (in their own words). If you don’t know what a bio is, it’s the short description on an Instagram profile, or TikTok, or…
The triumph of subscriptions
A filed trademark might suggest just that.
Apple is big into services right now, as you probably know. Monthly subscriptions are the way to go, apparently. They did it with Apple Arcade, Apple Music, Apple News+, Apple TV+, iCloud, recently Apple Fitness, and Apple One which bundles many of those services. Now they might take it a step further.
Subscription is the future
We all know it by now. Companies don’t want us to pay once. They want our money monthly or yearly. The more, the better. They lure us in with a seemingly small amount to subscribe, instead of paying the big bucks beforehand. It’s a good model. It has…
How to Marie-Kondo your digital life
And why you should do it
Digital spring cleaning is largely self-explanatory, but in case it isn’t here’s the gist of it: I wanted to get all my digital crap in order… essentially. I’ve never been a digital messy (nice new term). I’ve always kept my devices rather organized. A few things demanded more attention though.
The beginning
I started this spring cleaning project with the magnitude of paper documents I had lying around the house in a somewhat organized matter. I envisioned those organized correctly and scanned to have them available online at all times.
So I started there. I scanned the files from all those big…
Support creators
Seek out better alternatives
I was recently on the hunt for a good tool to handle donations and monthly subscriptions for the design work I do. I created a few icon packs for iOS to replace the default home screen icons on your iPhone or iPad. I made these icons available for free. I wanted to still have the opportunity to receive a dollar here and there from people who really like the icons and give back for the work that went into them.
The most popular service I knew to get financial support as a creator was undoubtedly Patreon. Many of my favorite…
My writing muse strikes in the weirdest moment. I am trying to recall the weirdest moments she has hit me so far. I remember lying in bed with my 4-year-old son reading his favorite book, cuddling up afterward just to wait until he sleeps. Perfect moments for the muse. A small idea, written lines. But I can’t get up until he sleeps.
The next day I’m lying in bed next to my beautiful wife. The muse hits again: a draft of a post, a vision of a future Medium story leading to fame and glory (wink, wink). And then, like a light switch, I’m out. Sleeping like a baby. The next day I can’t even remember the topic. I can’t sleep with an iPad next to me. God knows I’ve tried. But my wife made me decide: iPad or her. I chose her… for now.
Search engine monopoly
Could this be a real threat to Google?
A thought that has been flying around for quite a while is a search engine from Apple. Why? Google is the industry leader. There is Bing, Yandex, and some others. But most have the same problem, well, they call it their business model: advertising. In every way possible.
Solution: Apple?
Could Apple be a solution here? Many providers interpret the search engine differently than the market leaders, with a focus on data protection & privacy. The most well-known of these is certainly DuckDuckGo. I have been using DuckDuckGo for years, both on the desktop and on mobile devices.
DuckDuckGo is a good…
Success within a year
And how you could too
What? Probably the first question that comes to mind when hearing something like this, right? I sometimes can’t believe these stories although I am quite familiar with many creative ways to earn money online. Let’s dive in.
So TikTok?
You probably know TikTok, right? What an amazing success this relatively young social media platform has become. It’s not even 5 years old.
It’s a video platform, where you create video content... obviously. And as (almost) every big social media platform it earns its money largely through ads… with the additon of premium accounts as well.
But unlike other platforms (YouTube, for example)…
Burk
Content creator, linguist & writer from Germany. Native language German. Married. Dad of 4. Movie lover. Writing my whole life.
