Happy Holidays from Strasbourg!

December 25th, 2008 [christmas corporate culture france holidays organisations religion strasbourg]

Happy holidays from Strasbourg. I’m here on holidays and enjoying the Central European way of celebrating Christmas. It’s been very nice, despite the absence of snow. Last night we had dinner in a local restaurant offering a five course Alsace cuisine - needless to say it was delicious.

The restaurant was located just next to the Cathedral and the midnight mass was about to start. We decided to pop in for a visit to see how the Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus in Strasbourg. I’m part of the Finnish Lutheran church, but I do not practice religion at all. It was really interesting in a way that I realised that religions are run as extremely well defined and streamlined organisations and there’s a lot to learn for companies and startups.

I’m thinking of writing more about this in the following weeks, because I really believe there is a lot to learn here. In the mean time, I’ll drop the business logic in the background for a while and enjoy what the city of Strasbourg has to offer. Right after this, we’re off to Petite France to look for a restaurant that’s open on Christmas Day.

Enjoy your holidays, respect your peers and feel responsible for the less fortunate ones.

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Twitter Elite of Helsinki, Finland

December 21st, 2008 [elite twitter]

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Only Treasure To Carry

December 20th, 2008 [book lulu.com mikko jarvenpaa promotion]

My good friend Mikko Järvenpää has released his first book Only Treasure To Carry. Mikko has written the book during his trip around the world. It contains 40 poems/short pieces of writing and 15 hand drawn maps of his surroundings during that trip. You can order it through Lulu.com and it costs only 12 USD.

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