Hi friends,
before this little newsletter falls into its winter slumber, let’s get a little techy.
If you’re entirely new to Web3 and or the world of crypto, I hope this guide is a helpful start to your journey down the rabbit hole. Have fun and always DYOR.
This informal starter pack (LINK) aka Google Drive Doc by SF based investor Jay Drain Rr. was an excellent intro to the topic and reminded me a bit of the first days of the web where every long tail/niche content would find their audience. One of the reasons I fell in love with all things “internet” back in the early 2000s - oh how meta! Feel free to deep dive a little and don’t forget to DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH, ever.
Yours, Julia 🔮
PS. There is a special give away further down the read and it has something to do with (female) financial literacy.
PPS. Let me know what content/features/snippets you want to see more of in the next 12 months via
📝 LINKS
Article In 2021, over 534,000 writers published 2.3 million stories on Medium — about everything from personal growth to programming to data science and beyond. Loved this overview and the approach to screen content from an independing, democratic publishing perspective (LINK)
Lecture Multidisciplinary architect Oana Stănescu shared insights on her open minded approach to creating during a guest lecture at UDK’s “Juxtapositions”. She grew up in a small town in Romania, didn’t go to any museum for contemporary art until she was 19 and is thankful that one’s portfolio was more important that your education in her industry back then (LINK)
Science AI Researcher Timnit Gebru was fired from Google and is now launching her own Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR) to document AI’s harms on marginalized groups (LINK)
Podcast I Where does time go? For the 2018 exhibition “The Clock” by Christian Marclay at Tate Modern, the team behind it recorded an audio feature on the 24 hr art piece including the poet Rachel Long, a new mother, a night owl, an oil rig worker and an 8 year old each unravel their own perceptions of time (LINK) Thank you Claudia for sending this 🙏🏻
Podcast II In order to find out the science behind self care, Dr. Anne Latz, co-founder of Hello Inside, a glucose tracker that connects to your phone, sits down with business angel Lea-Sophie Cramer for a very approachable conversation about some easy to incorporate hacks for a better overall body feel (LINK)
Publication Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, published a collection of her work and here is a little excerpt (LINK)
Platform Craft the life you crave - The Ascend matches you with currently 17 coaches who are experts in career building, leadership, transformation and life in general (LINK) Thank you, Felicitas for finding this 🙏🏻
Tool No doubts about the passion economy accelerating its relevance in full swing over the upcoming years, but how on earth can it be that there has not been a smart solution for all the creator’s book keeping, pitching processes and back office organization? Enjoyed the discovery of Passionfroot and can’t wait to see them go out of closed beta (LINK)
Film Production They just started but I LOVE their aesthetics: Studio House Shoes is an independent film studio in Berlin weaving together personal histories, creativity and rituals of everyday life with a focus on people who prepare food (LINK)
Music Bite sized educational snippets on classical music in an easy to understand format: Corinna Volke aka @corirose, an expert in her field, shares her knowledge and invites interview guests on IGTV to explore all things Clara Schumann, Amy Beach and Le Sacre du Printemps (LINK)
Newsletter Snaxshot is curating the food and beverage space to see what’s coming next. From progressive produce, prejuvination drinks to edible cogitations and trendy snacks - the author takes your mind for a spin on all things future nutrition ❤️ (LINK)
Translation The animated movie Hair Love has been awarded an Oscar recently after starting out as a Kickstarter campaign in 2017. The plot: A man helps his daughter to fix her hair for the first time. The German version of the book has been released by now and was gracefully done by one of favourite TV presenters, Aminata Belli (LINK Book, LINK Trailer)
Spirituality Bought a single page rip-off calendar by the Moonsisters that describes the energy of the 🌓 and suggests the most beneficial actions for the day. Don’t judge me - but don’t we all strive for being aligned with the universe? (LINK)
📚 BOOKS
We are taught that medicine is the art of solving our body's mysteries. And as a science, we expect medicine to uphold the principles of evidence and impartiality. We want our doctors to listen to us and care for us as people, but we also need their assessments of our pain and fevers, aches and exhaustion to be free of any prejudice about who we are, our gender, or the colour of our skin. But medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. The history of medicine, of illness, is a history of people, of their bodies and their lives, not just physicians, surgeons, clinicians and researchers.
In “Unwell Women” Elinor Cleghorn unpacks the roots of the perpetual misunderstanding, mystification and misdiagnosis of women's bodies, and traces the journey (…) to modern day understandings of autoimmune diseases, the menopause and conditions like endometriosis. Packed with character studies of women who have suffered, challenged and rewritten medical orthodoxy - and drawing on her own experience of un-diagnosed Lupus disease - this is a ground-breaking and timely exposé of the medical world and woman's place within it. (LINK to the publisher’s info page, listen to an audio excerpt below)
📌 PIN BOARD
JOBS (all f/m/d and in Berlin or remote, if not stated otherwise)
Director of Communications, full-time // Formo, plant-based dairy products. Tasks: Deliver, implement and execute communication strategy internally/ externally, lead creative PR programs. Be main key media contact & spokesperson, have data-driven mindset to build a strategy, monitoring and reporting (LINK) Contact Kara ten Hoevel
Content Creator Digital Marketing and Social Media (m/w/d) full/part time // BettaF!sh and Oceanfruit. Tasks: Create, compile and edit content. Track and evaluate the performance of our content, including engagement rates, and also perform CRM (LINK)
Communications & Social Strategist, full-time // Pitch.com. Tasks: create, distribute and iterate on compelling communications that educate, inspire, engage and grow our brand audience and awareness (LINK)
(Sr.) Digital Analytics Engineer, full-time, Hamburg // Closed. Tasks: Verantwortung für die Erhebung der Web-Analyse-Daten des Onlineshops, Erstellung von Analysen zur Optimierung und Weiterentwicklung sowie Aufsetzen von Daten-Visualisierungen im Google Data Studio (LINK)
Team Lead Marketing, full-time // Planetly, a software for your company to analyse, reduce and offset your carbon footprint. Tasks: take ownership for the build up of Planetly as category brand for climate tech; design, implement and optimize our Marketing Strategy (LINK)
🎁 GIVEAWAY (German only)
Maya & Anaïs were so kind to offer a special give away: You can win one out of three vouchers (value 390 Euro each!) for their amazing Happy Immo Club webinar (LINK) on how to start purchasing your first real estate object and become a pro in all things investing, building a financial base for your future and be entertained while learning about the usually slightly dry topic. Believe me, the two women are so much fun, I wish they would explain the tax system, book keeping and the theory of relativity to me. If you want your special code, just comment on this post and we will notify you via DM on Saturday morning if you were lucky.
👯♀️ FRIENDS
The kindest people are behind this new brand and product discovery. Anna Schürrle and Nancy Tabillion, co-founders of Health Bar, an app for healthy & vegan/vegetarian but sexy recipes and a curated online shop, created this cute set of delicious 100% bio matcha tea, a handmade cup and a super qualitative bamboo whisk. It turns my non-coffee morning into pure bliss (LINK) 🙏🏻
THANK YOU FOR THIS RIDE TOGETHER IN 2021
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR ✨
💌 THE END💌