Benjamin Schneider
Splitting my time between working in UX / Software Engineering and studying Computer Science & Economics. Currently living in Zurich.
Feel free to reach out if you would like to talk about working together, have a question I might be able to answer, or just want to chat!
Writing
Work
These are some projects and companies I've been involved in over time. If you'd like to know more about them or the roles I had there, feel free to contact me.
Remote Student Exchange connects students from low- and middle income countries to courses at international universities for remote participation.
HackZurich unites tech talents representing several elite universities, leading organizations, and +85 countries, to collaborate and develop innovative web-, mobile- and hardware applications during a 40-hour hackathon.
Digital Festival Zurich brings together pioneers and decision makers interested in digitalization and technology for two days of inspiration and interactive learning.
TICKETINO is a self-service platform for event ticket sales. The company also implements custom registration processes for corporate events, conferences, and meetings.
Inspiration
A somewhat random and occasionally updated list of people, works, and sources that were interesting, inspiring, and/or influential for me.
Reasons for inclusion range from "I randomly remembered this" over "I think this is underrated" to "this changed how I view the world".
- 3blue1brown
- 99% Invisible
- Alchian, Armen A. — "Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory"
- APJ & JSB — "Design Unbound"
- Armstrong, Zan — "Stop aggregating away the signal in your data"
- Astral Codex Ten (fka Slate Star Codex)
- Banerjee & Duflo — "Poor Economics"
- Bêka & Lemoine
- Bret Victor
- Buchner Bründler Architekten
- Calvino, Italo — "Invisible Cities"
- Cheng, Ian — "Emissary's Guide To Worlding"
- Colomina & Wigley — "Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design"
- Covington, Michael A. — "How to Write More Clearly, Think More Clearly, and Learn Complex Material More Easily
- Edward Tufte
- Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou
- Ethos
- Factorio
- Floating Points
- Flyvbjerg, Bent — "Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled"
- Ford, Paul — "What Is Code?"
- Forster, E. M. — "The Machine Stops"
- Gorogoa
- Graham, Paul — "Taste for Makers"
- Grillo-Marxuach, Javier — "The Eleven Laws of Showrunning"
- Halt and Catch Fire
- Hayek, F. A. — "The Use of Knowledge in Society"
- Henrich, Joseph — "The Secret of Our Success"
- Higgins, Eliot — "We Are Bellingcat"
- Ink & Switch
- Jackson, Daniel — "Towards a theory of conceptual design for software"
- James Murphy
- Jenny Holzer
- Jim Watson
- Jonas & Kording — "Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?"
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Julie Mehretu
- Kafka, Franz — "The Trial"
- Kidder, Tracy — "The Soul of a New Machine
- Kirsten Dirksen
- Krakauer, David C. (ed.) — "Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984—2019"
- Lacaton & Vassal
- Larson, Will — "An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management"
- Marginal Revolution
- Meadows, Donella A. — "Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System"
- Meadows, Donella A. — "Thinking in Systems: A Primer"
- Monument Valley
- Norman, Donald A. — "Living With Complexity"
- Norman, Donald A. — "The Design of Everyday Things"
- In The Pipeline (Derek Lowe)
- Questlove
- Rao, Venkatesh — "Schleps, Puzzles, and Packages: Solving Complex Problems the Iron Man Way"
- Renzo Piano Building Workshop
- Reply All
- Roth, Alvin E. — "Who Gets What — and Why"
- Salvatier, John — "Reality has a surprising amount of detail"
- Schlender & Tetzeli — "Becoming Steve Jobs"
- Schmidhuber, Jürgen — "Driven by Compression Progress"
- Scott, James C. — "Seeing Like a State"
- Skala, Matthew — "What Colour are your bits?"
- Smil, Vaclav — "Energy and Civilization: A History"
- Somers, James — "I should have loved biology"
- Sousanis, Nick — "Unflattening"
- Sutton, Rich — "The Bitter Lesson"
- Ted Chiang
- The Witness
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- XKCD
- Zachtronics