René Seifert - Entrepreneur & Global Citizen

Just posting live in a sitation which might still appear someting extraordinary to many people. Somehow it also goes along the questions that I get often ask: „How do you handle this constant flying long-distances?“ My standard response is: „Easy. It’s either one night in the plane, or one working day in the plane.“ Today it is obviously the latter, we are presently on Lufthansa 754 at 36,000 feet overhead Pakistan, and the sun has just set as I could see it from my window:

It is really like a fully fledged working day, especially since internet has come on board a year ago. So it does not make any difference, if I am sitting in my office in Bangalore, in Munich or whereever. I guess it’s just the thought of that full flexibility that we need to get throroughly aware of. Admittedly, I might count to the typical „early adopter“ who drives not just the digital, but also the nomadic digital lifestyle to the max. But effectively, the technical tools for doing it that way are available at no or at very little cost.

Example: I even got a few Skype-chats today during the flight, I just declined to talk to someone who was calling me as a courtesy to other passengers. Hence, unfortunately, or rather intentionally, I am not „enjoying the inflght movies“ which are being shown. Instead I am working on some backlog of pending tasks, and if I want to watch a movie, I have a few on the harddrive of my PC to watch exactly the one I want and when I want. Admittedly, the risk of such a lifestyle - and do see it occuring in some instances – is that you get detached from the „here and now“ as your degrees of freedom determine your constructed reality, which in turn is independant of time and place. In the worst case it might turn your liberty into some kind of solipsistic prison. Wasn’t this called also the Blackberry-effect? :-)