Who am I?

The title is an existential question whose answer I wish I knew.

Here’s what little I do know: My name is Arnd and I was born in Germany, grew up in Canada and Japan and then went to college in the USA. Then I returned to Germany so that I could attend college again, but this time in German. I ended up working in the computer industry for hardware manufacturers and software companies. This was during the 80’s and 90’s so it was a crazy time indeed with lots of mergers and acquisitions and of course the “dot com” bubble. I once worked for 5 different companies without having changed jobs or desk a single time. I took a chance and branched out to create my own company, which I ended up selling and now I continue doing consulting work in the realm of big data for part of the year and spend the rest of my time sailing aboard Zanshin.

While I can’t answer the “Who am I?” question, I can answer the “Where am I?“” one. It is a comfortable life, whenever I get sick of hearing Reggae and the lap of waves around the boat and want to put on shoes again I head back to a new consulting project. And when I start dreaming of sand between my toes and bland Caribbean beer, I end my project and return to being a beach bum. It is truly the best of two worlds. I enjoy photography, and one advantage of being behind the lens is that I’m seldom in front of it and hence there aren’t that many pictures of me. But images of the Caribbean are quite a bit more photogenic than am I, so that’s no great loss.

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