Update: We have found a great new home for ZenFriend. The project will be in good hands and live on! In the past two years the ZenFriend app has grown to 41.232 downloads. Together we have completed 126.250 hours of meditation in 380.634 sessions. Wow! For me ZenFriend was always a side-project. I never wanted…
Tag: Meditation
What I Learned Building the ZenFriend Meditation App
In 2014 I created ZenFriend and documented the process in a detailed project log (see below) inspired by Amir Rajan’s log about a game that ranked #1 in the US App Store. Summary The most important metric is not the number of downloads. It’s the number of Daily Active Users (DAU) and Monthly Active Users…
Science of Habit Change and Meditation
Here is the presentation I held at LIFT Conference Basel about the Science of Habit Change and the Science of Meditation, and why I started ZenFriend.
Street Living Experience 2014
These are the experiences of my second Street Retreat. Click here to read the experiences of the first one in 2011. In 2011 I did my very first Street Retreat. This year I’ve decided to invite Zen-Buddhist Monk Claude AnShin Thomas to Basel and to organize a Street Retreat in my home town. So from…
The Habits of Happiness
I am a deep admirer of Matthieu Ricard. One of his books got me on the path of meditation, and I am forever grateful for that. Here are two talks that I re-watch regularly. It’s a great summary of his wisdom. Enjoy!
Proof that Meditation works
Here is a recent Amazon review that I have written about Hirnforschung und Meditation: Ein Dialog (edition unseld) (in German, here is the English translation with Google Translate) Beweis dass Meditation zu neuronalen Veränderungen führt Dieses Buch war ein Geschenk meines seit Jahren meditierenden Karate-Lehrers und ist eines der Bücher, welches mein Leben von Grund…
My Street Living Experience
No Money. No Sleeping Bag. Sleeping Outside. Begging. These are the experiences of my first Street Retreat in 2011. Click here to read the experiences of the second one in 2014. From July 9 to July 13 2011 I’ve lived on the streets of Bielefeld, Germany, without money, without a sleeping bag, sleeping outside. Accompanied by…