CURRENT MISSION

Creating delightful iOS apps that enrich people’s lives.

ABOUT ME

I enjoy a nice game of ultimate frisbee, a good cup of coffee, fine typography, and delightful software. I embrace the Holstee manifesto.

PHILOSOPHY

“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” —Steve Jobs

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have always preferred staying at acquaintances’ places, even if I had only met them once, and I encourage them to do the same. Although I am new to CouchSurfing-the-platform, I have liked the idea ever since I learned of Pasporta Servo, the Esperantists’ equivalent that (back in the 80s) relied on an annually updated printed catalog.

Interests

Ultimate frisbee, languages, sign language, typography, UX design, hiking.

• design
• coffee
• hiking
• languages
• sign language
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

- Books: To Have or to Be (Erich Fromm), Das Glasperlenspiel (Hermann Hesse), The Loom of Language (Frederick Bodmer).
- Movies: Fight Club, Night on Earth, Intouchables.
- Music: La Vela Puerca, Keith Jarrett, Bugge Wesseltoft, Katzenjammer, Kleingeldprinzessin.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Learned spinning llama wool from an old lady on the Isla del Sol.
- Trekked the forsaken Mapiri trail through the Bolivian jungle (Lonely Planet: “masochists only”). Never again, though…!
- Trekked across the Andes from Panguipulli (Chile) to Argentina.
- Discovered a long-forgotten Indonesian tea made from the leaves of the coffee tree (i.e. “coffee tea”)