#19 - Echoes & Evolution

But there's another topic that I would love to talk about today with you guys.

September 11th? well we could but you know i don't know not really i

mean it's you know it's at least from my point of view as you know i didn't live in new york back then but you know uh now i do and i have for the last 20 years roughly um today being the 25th anniversary of September 11 of the attacks on the World Trade Center, that really is worth a brief moment of reflection how things have changed over those years.

And

now I give you my take on it.

The interesting thing is it was an attack on New York and I think it has changed our world significantly on a global scale and i think a lot of stuff that's happening you know the phobia against like immigrants and and and the division we have and a lot of stuff i think a lot comes from that moment like that the uncertainty in life that anything can happen.

I think that on a global scale, that I think had a major impact.

Interestingly enough, I think New York has never been a greater city than it is right now.

It feels like it's very innovative.

It feels like it's very safe.

I think it's prosperous.

You have a Muslim mayor who's an immigrant.

So I think for New York, it's a very different story while they were in this, than for the rest of the world that wasn't in it, right?

That's probably true.

But it kind of is more of an extreme on both ends, right? New York got hit a lot harder than the rest of the world, like literally.

And then it perhaps also emerged out of that with renewed energy and agility more so than other areas of the world.

That is probably a fair take.

But then again, New York has always been a particularly energetic and agile city.

It has always reinvented itself.

So over the course of 20 or to 25 years, New York has always changed a lot.

So, you know, but it is...

It's a thing.

So, you know, when I...

I don't know where you guys were when those attacks happened, and if you remember that, I was in a newsroom in Germany.

And in fact, when the first plane hit, I was upstairs in accounting, and I was dealing with some... bill, some invoice that hadn't been paid.

But there's another topic that I would love to talk about today with you guys.

September 11th? well we could but you know i don't know not really i

mean it's you know it's at least from my point of view as you know i didn't live in new york back then but you know uh now i do and i have for the last 20 years roughly um today being the 25th anniversary of September 11 of the attacks on the World Trade Center, that really is worth a brief moment of reflection how things have changed over those years.

And

now I give you my take on it.

The interesting thing is it was an attack on New York and I think it has changed our world significantly on a global scale and i think a lot of stuff that's happening you know the phobia against like immigrants and and and the division we have and a lot of stuff i think a lot comes from that moment like that the uncertainty in life that anything can happen.

I think that on a global scale, that I think had a major impact.

Interestingly enough, I think New York has never been a greater city than it is right now.

It feels like it's very innovative.

It feels like it's very safe.

I think it's prosperous.

You have a Muslim mayor who's an immigrant.

So I think for New York, it's a very different story while they were in this, than for the rest of the world that wasn't in it, right?

That's probably true.

But it kind of is more of an extreme on both ends, right? New York got hit a lot harder than the rest of the world, like literally.

And then it perhaps also emerged out of that with renewed energy and agility more so than other areas of the world.

That is probably a fair take.

But then again, New York has always been a particularly energetic and agile city.

It has always reinvented itself.

So over the course of 20 or to 25 years, New York has always changed a lot.

So, you know, but it is...

It's a thing.

So, you know, when I...

I don't know where you guys were when those attacks happened, and if you remember that, I was in a newsroom in Germany.

And in fact, when the first plane hit, I was upstairs in accounting, and I was dealing with some... bill, some invoice that hadn't been paid.