Niklas Baumgärtler
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I'm a speaker, musician, writer and teacher. Although interested in many things, I am most fascinated by the human condition and how humans and their social systems are born, change and fall apart.
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Universal Offering
Before you read this: Imagine a bus going through a city at night. It's raining, and the windshield wipers are wiping away. A man on the bus feels desolate, lost in his own thoughts. Another man smiles friendly on him, but all our friend sees in his encouraging smile is an understanding of how the world is a bad place.
By Niklas Baumgärtler9 months ago in Beat
Homesick
I felt strangely calm during the drive to my destination that day. Following some inexplicable intuition, I had prepared several items that just… felt right, even though if asked I probably wouldn’t have been able to explain why. I had brought the beautiful feather that I had found walking the day before. Had picked some sage from the garden, the one type of plant I had always felt a rather special connection to. When I sat down with the old man, he asked me what I was here for today.
By Niklas Baumgärtler9 months ago in Psyche
On a fateful November night
(I was writing this for the "Self-Editing Epiphany"-Challenge, only to in the end realize in the end that there was a 1.500 words limit to it, and this has more like 3.800 words. Since today is my birthday and I won't have time to shorten it, I'll just publish it anyway now. I hope you like it!)
By Niklas Baumgärtler10 months ago in Critique
When your facebook ad account gets hacked: Why it happens, and how to deal with it
A while ago I got a rather confusing Email by Facebook: They were not sure whether I was old enough to actually be a user. Which is quite weird, since I had been using it for 7 years, and I was 31 years by then. Did they increase their minimum age to 35 now, or what the hell happened?
By Niklas Baumgärtler10 months ago in Geeks
