Welcome to 'The Unreasonable Art of Living,' a thought-provoking podcast hosted by Gerhard, where personal development and self-discovery take center stage. Born from Gerhard's relentless quest for self-understanding, this podcast explores the transformative power of 'lumii,' a unique personal development methodology that breaks down barriers to unleash your full potential. Join Gerhard on an insightful journey through his personal experiences with lumii, its evolution into a product, and the lasting impact it has had on his life. Expect intimate stories from those who have dared to live unreasonably, embracing their unique signatures and breaking from the norms. Get ready to be inspired, encouraged, and equipped to carve out your own path in this unreasonable art of living. Let's dive in and start your transformation journey!

Working on the groundbreaking metrics system for mod.io, so creators have a deep understanding of their creations through cutting-edge analytics and AI. For this, we are using the power of AWS Redshift, in a combination of the AWS Lambda functions written in Go and the metrics API using NestJS to enable a highly scalable solution. Stack: Go, Typescript, Nest.Js, AWS Redshift, AWS Lambda, AWS Glue, PySpark, Redis

Wunderdog is a premium consulting agency bridging the gap between business and digitalisation. By combining smart ways of working, human-centered design and high-quality code, Helsinki- and Berlin-based superstars help create successful digital products and services. Software developer and consultant at Wunderdog Helsinki. Providing high quality code and services for clients. Coding mainly in TyepScript, React, GraphQL and Node.js/Nest.js. Currently exploring Go as backend language.

Implementation of new product features: from creating early testable prototypes to high fidelity UI/UX design to actual implementation / Angular development. Working closely with the Chief Architect and Head of Product.

My duties include development of School Day Angular applications and UX design and development.

Introducing students of the MA Fashion Entrepreneurship & Innovation course to the 3-Steps to Minimum Badass process on how to validate an idea with real traction, recruit and engage a community of early-adopters and have user-centric and validated specs for the MVP in 4-6 weeks, with little investment, minimal technology and no risk.

I worked with numerous startups and helped my clients with Google Design Sprints, UI/UX Design, User Research, Rapid Prototyping, and Growth Hacking.Also, developed the "4-Steps To Minimum Badass" process to -> validate an idea with real traction-> recruit a community of early-adopters-> serve one happy paying customer-> have user-centric and validated specs for the MVP.With little investment, minimal technology and no risk taken.

Polkuni is a Helsinki and Hong Kong based hands-on investment and activation company. Their mission is to boost the most passionate entrepreneurs to succeed in the developing markets of Asia. Their focus is in creating the cultural interface between Finland and Asia.I helped Polkuni's portfolio startups with UI/UX design, user research and lean startup experiments. By running design sprints I helped them to define their mission and develop prototypes that can be validated quickly with their users and are aligned with their mission. I pushed for developing and testing early prototypes iteratively with users to move ideas closer to market launch.

I was leading a team of 6 wonderfully Unserious minds whose passion was to design physical games that spark people's imagination, unleash their creativity and bring people together. Our first award winning board game LUPO: The Space Adventure was sold out in UK & USA over Amazon, exceeding lifetime industry average sales in just a few months. Funding & Revenue--> Raised $150k in pre-seed--> Generated $85k Revenue within 8 weeksProduct Launches:LUPO: The Space Adventure--> 3.000 Units Sold in 3 Months in US and UK--> 4.2 / 5 Rating Amazon US--> Kokoa Certified--> Best Cross-Curriculum Game Award (Gold) and Best Family Game Award (Bronze)Products Developed:--> Unserious Space Adventures (Successo of LUPO: The Space Adventure)--> Unserious Seduction (Proof of Concept for Unserious f2f Local Mobile Games)Activities:- As Lead Game Designer I was in charge of driving the vision of making ridiculous experiences a reality- Organising fieldwork, facilitating co-creation sessions, conducting contextual interviews and performing usability studies- Getting the product/market fit right by business model canvases- Planning and executing experiments (lean startup methodology)- Design research through interviews and rapid prototyping- Marketing & Content Creation- Community Management- PR & Communications- Pitching, fundraising, sales and advertising

During my time as PhD researcher at the Playful Learning Center, University of Helsinki, I continued where I left off at RMIT. My focus was to create creative and playful tools that empower teachers as (game) designers of their classroom. I published one book chapter "The Role of the Teacher in Game-Based Learning" (Springer) and one conference workshop paper "Towards a Teacher-Culture of Participation". It was during that time when the idea for the creative and ridiculous storytelling game LUPO: The Space Adventure emerged.

During my time at the Centre for Game Design Research at RMIT, I focused on blending the digital and analogue world through playful frames. I designed the first playful crowdfunding campaign to finance my studies at RMIT. Visitors could interact with my crowdfunding platform, find and solve hidden puzzles to unlock prizes. I drew inspiration from Alternate Reality Games, which were my speczialisation during my MA in Digital Game Design & Theory. I reached my goal within 24h.

I worked closely with the marketing department and as well with the development team for the Xbox ONE exclusive game Ryse. Key Accomplishments: • Independent Organisation and Execution of the Gamescom Community Night • Independent Organisation and Execution of the Teamdinner in Los Angeles for the E3 • Independent Organisation and Execution of Studio Wide Summits & Marketing Kick- Off Meetings • Co-Organisation and Execution of the Crytek E3 Event• Co-Organisation and Execution of the Crytek Gamescom Event