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Issue #56 (19 Jun) – Data, Analytics & Finance jobs; louse-piss sliders; blow up your life; r/berlin votes to end it; Kreuzberged and facts about 'OK'.

Jun 19, 2023

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last week I asked for a logo, and I was told off by several people doing that; so I will upgrade the existing one myself 😅
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A smiling Brazilian guy 😃 is looking for a startup/company where he can do an internship and write his master thesis (business and management). Also experienced professional in marketing, branding and project management.

Phaedra is a Berlin-based computational linguist with a professional and research background in conversational design, NLP and voice/chatbot apps. She is looking for a new role!
Em is looking for a creative role in Berlin's music sector. With 20 years in Western Australia's music industry as an educator, producer, and more, she's eager to build community through all opportunities, regardless of size.

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🇩🇪 Berlin & Other good stuff

🤮 Yikes. “A YouGov poll published on Friday (9 June) found that 20% of German voters would give their vote to the far-right AfD, making it the second-strongest party behind the CDU (28%) and ahead of Scholz’s SPD (19%).”
💸 According to the Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (🇩🇪), you are considered wealthy if your monthly net is at least €3,803. In 2022, nearly 9% of Berliners met this threshold, about 1% more than the national average.
🌳 Weeks of drought caused the lice on the Linden trees to literally piss on the cars and streets below. Then it rained, which in turn caused the streets to become so slippery that the police needed to issue a warning—more on the topic and why beekeepers actually loved it at RBB (🇩🇪).
🅿️ In another bizarre turn of events on the streets of Berlin, CDU’s traffic minister Ms Schreiner halted all the development of bike lanes that would interfere with existing parking spaces. Ok, I did not listen to the CDU side of the argument, but to me it sounds counterproductive to fight for parking spaces because they cannot vote. This and more on the problems at Ausländerbehörde also in #187 edition of 20 Percent Berlin.
🎩 If you are currently working on your CV, here are a few good concrete tips from a LinkedIn post. Low on the usual balast, recommeneded.
🤓 I liked this review of Apple Vision Pro from Marques Brownlee and his assessment of pros and cons. An excellent hardware product for early adopters waiting for software to be built; I underestimated Apple at least twice and think they will again pull it off.
I really enjoyed this essay on blowing your life regularly by
Sasha Chapin
. It is true that “in a dramatically new situation, you have no choice but to act your way into being someone else.”
Sasha's 'Newsletter'
In praise of blowing up your life
Generally, I think blowing up your life is a good idea. Sure, not for Cocaine Bob, who is on his fifth marriage and tenth DUI. But for the relatively sane, by the time you’re mostly ready to leave a job, or a city, or a relationship, you probably have good reason to. Status quo bias is utterly pervasive. Most people are tremendously resistant to change…
Read more
2 years ago · 124 likes · 17 comments · Sasha Chapin
😔 Bad news: Tesla is reducing temp workers by several hundred at Grünheide factory.
🤗 Senate Department for Economics has a great page to welcome all new Berliners and offers free welcome tours; the next one is this Saturday. Let me know if it was any good.
🤖 Germany can also be way ahead with digitization: A church in Bavarian Fürth used an AI priest for the service. Responses to a computer avatar-led service were mixed; I mean why would you like the emotionless robot delivering a speech?
📈 Berlin's rental index (Mietspiegel) will rise by 5%, pushing the average rent to €7.16 per square meter, the first time it's surpassed €7. The new index replaces the 2021 figure of €6.79. A great FAQ on this concept of regulated rent is available here. (🇩🇪) On the other hand, the cucumber index is dropping! Less square meters but more cucumber for your euros.
🕸️ One of the most famous VC companies, a16z or Andreessen Horowitz is opening a crypto-web3-focused office in London (careers, nothing for London yet). I did not like their shilling of crypto, but I loved “The Hard Thing About Hard Things” by Ben Horowitz.
👶🏼 At 25%, Berlin has an above-average proportion of women born between 1973-77 without biological children, second to Hamburg's 29%, whereas Brandenburg is slightly below the national average at 17%. Nationally, 20% of women are childless, up from 17% 15 years ago, with more childless women in West Germany and among highly educated women.
This week r/berlin mods held a methodologically questionable survey on how to continue with a protest against Reddit’s new API policy. In a typical r/berlin manner, a slight majority voted to close down forever, lol. 🤦🏻‍♂️ For now, it will stay closed until the end of the month.
A hard nut to crack: Reddit is a fantastic community that thrives precisely because it feels genuine, ad-less and spam-less. But does not make any money. Probably Google should buy them and run at a loss to keep the search traffic. My prediction: 80% sure that everything goes back to normal in one month.
💬 Briefly:
1. Flix is saying it’s profitable and there are rumours of an IPO;
2. I wish I had a raise like that—Lufthansa has proposed a new offer to the pilots. Combined with previously paid wage increases, the company offers an 18.5% salary hike until 2025;
3. Mercedes will start testing of the integration of ChatGPT, but not for driving hue hue;
4. Helsing, a Munich-based defence startup, previously mentioned here, will work on equipping Eurofighter for electronic warfare.

💸 Recently funded in Berlin & Germany

Nelly | Berlin | Digitising patient admin for doctors and medical professionals. | €12.5M Series A | Careers.
Caya | Berlin | Receive your postal mail digitally, reduce paperwork. | €6M | Careers.
FERNRIDE | Munich | Accelerating the transition towards automated and sustainable logistics with their autonomous, electric trucking. | €29M Series A | Careers.
Angsa Robotics | Munich | Improving waste removal for green spaces. | €2.5M | Careers.
Meshcapade | Tübingen | Creating 3D models of humans for e-commerce and fitness businesses using AI. | $6M Seed | Careers.
Thinksurance | Frankfurt | Providing insurtech solutions for commercial and industrial clients. | €22M | Careers.
Sparetech | Stuttgart | Providing a data platform for industrial spare parts. | $10M Series A | Careers.
Dntox | Düsseldorf | Helping companies test chemicals without using animals. | €1.4M | Careers.
Dynamic42 | Jena | Expanding organ-on-chip technology internationally. | Series A Undisclosed | Careers.

📢 Shoutout

Check out this beautiful Kreuzberged, Berlin Companion blog by Beata Gontarczyk-Krampe with plenty of historical articles. The last one was about an inventor of helmets with ventilation. Obscure and interesting.

😅 Meanwhile

one of the wealthiest men in Africa called the authorities

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- Berlin Salary Trends survey

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