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For those of you who are curious enough, here's what's going on in my life right now. I'll try to list all my professional and personal projects here to better bridge the gap between ideation, creation and presentation. I'll try to update this page regularly, so hopefully I see you coming back soon.

• Topics like technology, science, automation, writing and personal knowledge management (PKM) have always been important to me. So far I've never talked much about these interests, at least not publicly. But as these things are part of my daily life and since I find myself continuously exploring these subject matters I thought about giving them more room and a dedicated space. So just very recently I created a new site called cogmodo.com where I'm trying to write about all those topics that are hard to fit in here under the aboutgrau.com umbrella. So if you find some time head over there and let me know what you think.

• An ongoing project is the transcription and summary of art focused podcasts. I've always been very interested in art, but my background knowledge, especially my biographical knowledge of the various artists has always been poor. By making room for such summaries I hopefully can create a back catalogue of information that I can easily refer to whenever I need it or I'm curious about a certain detail. I'm using the MacWhisper app for these transcriptions, the summaries though are completely written and thought through by my human brain.

• At the moment I'm reading two books. First the new and very well written book "Blue Machine" by Helen Czerski about our oceans, how they work and how they influence our life on planet earth. It's a science related book, so probably you'll hear more about it over at cogmodo.com.

• The other book I'm currently reading is the novel "Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson from 2003. It's written in a staccato like speech that I should have probably read 20 years ago.