Posts tagged “interview”

Interview: Apotheken Umschau / Volle Kontrolle über mich

Posted on December 17th, 2012

File under “unexpected media appearance”: A few weeks ago I was interviewed about personal analytics and the Quantified Self by a good old institution in the German media sphere, Apotheken Umschau. It’s one of those magazines that fly very much under the radar, yet have an incredible circulation of about 10 million printed copies (and 20 million reach): You can pick them up for free at any pharmacy, so they’re pretty much everywhere even if you’ll never see anyone reading it. Mysterious, eh? Anyway, long story short, along with other familiar faces like Florian Schumacher of the QS Munich meetups I got to give my two cents on personal analytics. As the magazine is aimed squarely at a mainstream, non-technical audience, it’s all pretty…

Categories: digital life, interview, media, media coverage

Tagged: interview, media, mystuff, personal analytics, quantified self

Interview in Fit for Fun

Posted on September 11th, 2012

So Fit for Fun interviewed me about self tracking & body tracking. The interview is in the recent print edition, but doesn’t seem to be available online in full (yet?). The editors made self tracking out to be a mainstream trend, and took the “freak” angle out of it, which I appreciate. Still too many main stream outlets out there that label people as somehow freakish or a-normal for regularly checking up on their running habits or pulse.

For more depth than a short interview, I’d recommend you jump over to the good old Quantified Self series we published at Third Wave a little while back.

ps. I try to keep an up-to-date list of media appearances here.

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Tagged: analytics, body tracking, interview, media, quantified self, self tracking

Video: Interview with Prof Faltin about Entrepreneurship

Posted on June 12th, 2012

A few weeks ago, Professor Faltin invited me for an interview to the Labor für Entrepreneurship, a long-running series of talks about entrepreneurship. We had a good conversation, both on and off the camera, and it’s great to be challenged by someone who has such deep knowledge about entrepreneurship, both academic and practical. Watch the video below or on Entrepreneurship.de

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Tagged: entrepreneurship, interview, media, my stuff, self

Interview with BR

Posted on March 9th, 2012

Interview time! Over at Third Wave, we’ve been getting some pretty amazing media attention. Not exactly sure why, but this last week alone between the three of us we gave four interviews. Not exactly our weekly average. Bayerischer Rundfunk, a state-level public broadcaster, asked me a bunch of questions about the Quantified Self and why I had my DNA analyzed by 23andme. Full QS special here, my interview here. There’s a couple more coming up over the next few weeks. I really enjoy this, particularly if the interviewer asks questions I hadn’t thought about before. I’m pretty bad about repeating the same spiel over and over. Much more fun to explore stuff in the conversation.

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Tagged: 23andme, DNA, interview, my stuff, quantified self