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Speed is not about rushing. It is about shortening the path to feedback, learning sooner, and keeping work cheap to change.
Notes, projects, and book takeaways
I'm Simon Schraeder, a software engineer at Breuninger focused on platform architecture and after-sales systems. This site collects notes from work, side projects, and books I keep thinking about.

Recent writing and small observations.
Speed is not about rushing. It is about shortening the path to feedback, learning sooner, and keeping work cheap to change.
To get better at management is to get better at conversations. And sometimes the conversations you need to have are not easy. This book gives a lot of valuable pointers.
I got tired of hunting for our canteen menu on Confluence every day, so I built a quick MCP server that lets me ask Claude what's for lunch instead.
Sometimes we are on, sometimes we are not. This classic HBR title was a great read.
Typing in a long password is annoying and the KDE UI doesn't make it easy to use WPS.