Tiny objects to brighten up my day. #IMPei

Our call ended w/ our lead saying, “see you after the holidays and the winefest 🍷…” do miss wandering booth to booth, a bit tipsy, savouring the last bit of summery times before daylight saving ends. Like a true RPer.

The full session of Maja Göpel im Gespräch m/ Anne Will 🔽 youtu.be/Ud-dcoVYE4o?... #AnneWill

Hasn’t changed much since the 80s, has it? #yesminister

A friend shared this cinematic view of Shanghai from her office just now. Gorgeous, but I can’t quite enjoy it, too many plot twists in real life already. 😔

I always confuse “kündigen” with “ankündigen”. It gets very awkward when I read a headline about someone “resigning” and get all excited then comes the little “an” at the end. #deutschlernen

Concur still alerts me for weekend trip expenses, but the login screen greets me with a sunset in Basel. Mum’s still in the hospital, yet the waiting room plays clair de lune. In small moments like these, I believe alles wird gut.

Been running on empty all week… only realised it’s the weekend when #PolitikmitAnneWill showed up in my feed. 🌞 Kleine Freude, große Wirkung. Schönes Wochenende!🍸

had to play some Debussy to this

Team Sport at its best. ❤️ credit: rugbyworldcup #RWC #TeamNZ #BlackFerns

Goooo black ferns! youtube.com/shorts/RRHOr...

Yes CarPlay, but teams and zoom?

The things I have seen in the ob&gyn ward & at the hospital at large in the past few days… 😔

Yes, they are official.

Prolly the only mouse l’m not scared of ❤️ #dieMaus

The 2026 budget presentation is due in two weeks. It matters a lot, sure. But with mum needing surgery, I’m stepping back and letting my team take over. Mum comes first. I need to be there for her. ❤️

Was halfway through this episode and had to pause for a work appointment (on a Sunday 🙂‍↔️. Pity my German still needs subtitles… but this one is just too cute to stop. Will pick it up again on the way back.🤗 #PolitikmitAnneWill

Gardasil sales have been suffering to the point that Q2 in one key market was literally 0 😒 … with that in mind, the narrative in this piece takes on a whole different meaning.

Saw this on the metro while listening to a podcast about the 100th anniversary of the Palace Museum. A beautiful coincidence. For a split second, I wasn’t sure which year it really is today.

Useful sentence practiced today.💆🏻‍♀️ (been working 12 days straight… bin fix & fertig 🙂‍↔️

Almost 20 years ago my postgrad thesis was already studying gender pay gap. I didn’t expect to see how little “progress” has been made. 🙃

Normally not a big fan of Starbux, but this mug is just too cute. 🥰 totally melts my heart. Much needed cuteness especially after a 2-day workshop at the weekend.

Prevention is always better than cure.

My coach from Niseiko’s been skiing in NZ for a month. Jealous? Me? Of course not. 😏 #100%PureNZ

We’re all in the gutter, Hubble’s looking at the stars. ✨ literally.

Nodded all the way through the history of how some policies took shape. Cracked up when Frau Sohn was “planned” to be buried on Thu🤣. It ended beautifully on why we should listen to the (not old but) more “experienced”. After all there’s nothing new under the sun. This 2-hour ep went by in a flash.☕️

When the label says it can be enjoyed all the way through to 2070… sounds quite far away. But if you did the math it‘s only as far away as 1970…🥹

I thought my spaceship was finally coming to pick me up… turned out was only the TV tower blinking at me 🙃

mum needs to see her ob&gyn soon, and I really want to be there for her. The helplessness of being an only child is honestly quite daunting. 😔

Bunny what size do you wear? This is a quite hard-to-ignore foot 😁

Perfect weather for museum. Free admission, overflowing with treasures. Tax money well spent for public goods. Finally cultivating a life outside spreadsheets and emails.

🧐 wow. 🔗 podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/b...

Received a cancellation text from the rail service 90 mins before departure due to typhoon. Sorted out Plan B within 30 mins while in a meeting. As I was setting out in the car, another text came in, cancellation cancelled. Thanks to Deutsche Bahn, I’m fully trained. Nothing surprises me anymore 😏

“…currently 1,000 VC-invested biotech in China, 74% of which are at clinical stage”, 13 years ago, it was almost 0. In 2024, 30% of the license-in products of large pharma around the world came from China's biotech, which was also zero 6 years ago. The “996” model is sad but somehow “productive”…

Since Anne’s going on her summer holidays like she said at the beginning, I’m saving this one for later. Hope she’s tidied up her house already, or delegated it, like Melanie does 🤣

Finally finished a 37-slide deck & then found these super cute visuals in the company VI library. A bit too late. To make it worse, forgot to do German. Again. The 500+ day streak is gone 🙊😧 Discipline? Probably on summer break. At this point I’m just gonna binge some random YouTube clips. 累了…

Sent a TikTok to an official account half asleep last night. Opened the inbox just now and frooooze. Thought I’d shared something… horrifying. Then missed my metro stop. Turns out it was just a woman asking ChatGPT about gender roles… Still wondering if I qualify as a functioning adult. Maybe not. 🙈

That’s exactly why I said yes to a Strategic Account Management role, as a minority, in a German company. I wanted to challenge the status quo, maybe not the safest move, but who said I wanted safe? I want little girls out there to know, yes, you can do it too! Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

European leaders visit their Japanese and Chinese counterparts this week, and the expected outcomes reflect forces ranging from war to tariffs that are redrawing global trade relationships.

Beautiful with a capital B. Pic credit by a friend.

41/F vs G/F view. Looping back to yesterday’s point, good conversations need not just patience & presence from the listener, but also clarity & openness from the speaker. Sometimes, from the ground, I just can’t see the golden linings you might glimpse from high above. ☁️

as Anne summarised, "good listening requires time, patience, willingness to put yourself in someone else’s shoes". since it's a 'discussion', i think it also requires the 'speaker' to be more open, clear & genuinely willing to connect. just like in this episode. #PolitikmitAnneWill

15 years later, Mme Gaudibert’s shiny satin caught me again, this time in Shanghai. Amazing how art strings moments across space, like beads on a pearl necklace. Equally amazing, the art museum sits by the river, offering a stunning view. #smalltouchingmoments

Something cute for Friday! A self-serve flower stand at the metro station. Just a QR code away from a romantic gesture. 💐Weirdly efficient, quietly romantic. Also, something you’d miss if you’re always in the back seat of a chauffeured car. #smalltouchingmoments

Like everything else “garbage in garbage out”. Really depends on how you define „loneliness“ and why you think this is something that needs to be „solved“.

502 days into German, still sounds like I’m reading IKEA instructions out loud. Parisians once thought I was local in French. The magic’s gone. Maybe I need to quit. Or cry. Or both. 🙂‍↔️

Love how my job goes from drafting leadership speeches to calculating costs for 100+ people next year. Still need to find 12mio€ though… Great to know I’m… versatile. 🙃 #listeningto

Not sad sad. But… you know. It’s there… Summertime sadness, quiet but real. I need some Vivaldi now…

LinkedIn has the most random content. My old Head of Department is telling people to „diversify“ their choices of Fortbewegungsmittel & then someone who works at DBahn was looking me up? (btw is it still possible to get a refund for a 2-hour delay on a trip happened in Jun 24? Asking for a friend 😂