What I'll miss most after spending a week in England:
- people who know how to queue
- greggs
- bus drivers who actually respond when you say thanks
- meal deals
- pubs that don't only serve lager
A box of "Cream Donut" coffee beans
Probably can't afford a house but at least my coffee beans taste like chocolate ice cream!
Your daily reminder that if you are doing anything software-related, Google is after you.
youtu.be/YxkGdX4WIBE...
When you sell NVDA just before it drops by 2%
Having a baby feels like a space mission: you lose all sense of time, the environment is hostile to sleep, and coffee is always cold.
Screenshot StockTalker AI app, chipmakers list, YTD Performance: Intel 114.19%, AMD 79.04%, AVGO 64.25%, ASML 58.49%, TSM 45.32%, NVDA 32.59%
Who actually saw this coming? The chip stock with the best performance this year isn't Nvidia or AMD. It's Intel.
Small black dog figurine dressed as Elvis in a white rhinestone jumpsuit with a tiny guitar, microphone and Graceland gate on a desk.
Toy robot with a dog head standing on a cluttered kids' table surrounded by crayons, building blocks, drawings and its colorful box labeled "MEGAZORD."
Small black terrier named Elvis sits on a wooden desk under a lamp next to vintage books and a decorative box labeled "Elvis."
A few Gemini interpretations of Elvis as a toy.
P.S.: If you look closely, you might also see a baby 👶🏻👀
What makes stocks move?
💰 It's all about supply and demand.
Simply put: if more people buy than sell, the price rises, and vice versa.
Last week I completed 36 laps around the sun. Feeling optimistic about what the next orbit holds.
Hey there 👋 We're StockTalker AI. Our goal is to be your market-monitoring copilot - we'll handle the technical work and get you the info you need with plain language, not complicated commands. Here are a few alert ideas to get you started 👇
Weekend checklist:
1. refer 10 friends to Coinbase
2. retire
AI has made perfection cheap. Three signals that impress less now:
🌟 perfect CV (everyone's a superstar)
🎨 slick landing page (everyone's a design genius)
📱 seamless social media presence (everyone's a marketing guru)
Do banks count? I'm paying around €57/yr for my N26 membership which is about half of the price for new members.
Keep up the great work, Pete 💪
Personal website updated. A long overdue refresh. New look, new projects 📈👶🏻
tomigelo.com
Result: Top security, but bandwidth limits AI datasets to ~5kb data limit (tax form size).
Next up: integrating MCP servers for centralized fax control.
Source:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fo...'_Day
📠 E2EE quantum-resistant fax protocols for data transmission.
🔒 Tax-ID NFTs generated per fax on private dial-up blockchain.
🤝 Fax machine prints certs on secure paper; official seal included.
Fact: documenting AI training data for EU AI Act audits is challenging 🇪🇺
Also fact: FaxNetz AI, a joint venture between the German finance/cybersec agencies guarantees tamper-proof audits via secure fax network:
The result: Founded Sept 2023, LAP already has 10 cafés in Berlin, 1 in Munich + Hamburg planned.
Next up: Scaling nationwide without losing the advantages (price!) will be the real test. Good luck, LAP Coffee!
Fact: Coffee commodity prices have doubled in the last 12 months 📈
Also fact: a Berlin coffee chain is sticking to its €2.50 cappuccino. LAP Coffee's recipe for success:
☕ small shop spaces
💸 aggressive pricing strategy
📱 digital stamp card
🤝 Community & Partnerships
Elvis is in the house
Email screenshot (translated from German): The minimum contract term of your "Perfect Plus Annual Package" (including 50% discount) has expired. You will then automatically be switched to "Perfect Plus." The new monthly price is €14.99 (discount ends) and will be charged with the next billing starting March 26, 2025. You can adjust your package at any time under "My Account."
You can tell a lot about a company by how they handle contract renewals.
German TV streaming service waipu.tv gets it right: a clear email with new pricing and plenty of notice, including a direct link to my account settings.
This also shows how confident they are in their product (rightfully).
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Had a similar experience when I tried to cancel a bank account here in Germany last year.
✅ Check24: Germany's largest comparison portal (utility contracts, car rentals, hotels etc.). Not a startup anymore, but still innovating, i.e. expanded into fintech with C24.
🏴 Trade Republic: Zero-fee investing/ banking platform. One of the hottest fintechs in the EU right now.
🚗 MILES: Kilometer-based carsharing. Daily errands, weekend trips, even moving houses (vans!). Currently available in 12 German + 3 Belgium cities.
Fact: Zalando is the only DAX company founded in this century 🤯
Also fact: German startups are often overlooked as they are not publicly traded.
Here are 3 success stories made-in-Germany I rely on almost every day:
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Drafting emails
