My whole life it was much easier for me to wake up early than to stay up really late. As a school kid that has proven rather useful. But I always thought that it was some kind of weird. All my friends were up till late at night and hated the mornings. Ever slept at a friends house and woke up hours before the other did? Probably not, but I did. Boooooring.

At weekends I often got up early on a sunday to do my homework. I just was more productive then and it felt great to have breakfast with my family and seeing the whole day before me without anything I had to do because I already did all my work in the early morning.

As I discovered photography I was really into landscape photography, so I often got up early in the morning to photograph the sunrise or get photos of fog and dew. I really enjoyed being out there in the nature all alone.

Wherever you go in the early morning, it’s most likely that it’s much quieter than a few hours later. I always liked that.
As I was a kid we almost always did camping holidays with a caravan. Getting up early and riding my bike around the campground was great.

The last few years I always tried to fight getting up early and going to bed not that late. I thought it was just wrong, but it turns out I was just wrong. Today I woke up at 6:30 and just went for a run. It felt great. I even did it without music so I could just enjoy the silence and think about a few things. And I was rewarded with a beautiful sunrise.

I now realize that there is no point in fighting my circadian rhythm. I don’t have to be like most people, I can just be myself and make the most of it.

I’m an early bird and that’s great.

Enter the Read & Trust Magazine. Rather than the weekly emails that you’ve been used to, the Read & Trust Magazine will now be a monthly collection of articles from five contributing members. The text is still the star, but the content will be delivered in a way that is better for everyone.

Sounds really promising. I think I’m in. The line up of writers is really great.

Every Front End Engineer should read and follow this Manifesto by Zach Leatherman.

In our third issue we talk to CSS-wizard and Internet nomad Chris Coyier, Australian bootstrap-entrepreneur Collis Ta’eed, ex-Google designer and Avocado co-founder Jenna Bilotta, creative visionary and Facebook designer Wilson Miner, Smashing co-founder und editor-in-chief Vitaly Friedman and Happy Cog’s Philly-based president Greg Hoy.

Just ordered my copy of the third issue of the amazing Offscreen Magazine by Kai Brach. Loved the first two issues and am really looking forward to the new one.

The last few days I read a lot about startups, mainly because we are one and I wanted to see if there is something we are missing, what we should be aware of or just what others think of young companies like us.

I just published a new Reading List on the QUOTE.fm blog. Head over there and start reading.

Have a nice sunday everyone!