I look at familiar things from the angle most people skip, thinking in frameworks that travel across domains, more drawn to the structural shift than the surface noise.
Kolin Schunck · based in Hamburg, DE
A systems thinker who tests his ideas in cold open water, on foreign roads, and on the page.
My life runs on curiosity across domains. Borrow a mechanism from one world, stress-test it in another, and use it to see the structure most people miss. By day that means shaping how an industry adopts new technology. The rest of the time it takes other forms.
Endurance sport is my lab for the self: the discipline of compounding small gains, and the honest feedback of a finish line you can't argue with. Travel is the input, because new places reset defaults you didn't know you had. And writing is where it all gets metabolised into frameworks worth keeping.
The long game is freedom: the independence to choose what I work on, and to pass on what I learn to people who weren't handed the same head start.
Where the frameworks meet a finish line you can't argue with. Recent and upcoming starts:
Where the defaults got reset this year. A few of 2026's detours:
Stock & Flow, an analytical newsletter for the strategy-literate.
Framework-driven essays that take a single signal, whether a fuel-price chart, a festival or a cold Baltic morning, and pull the whole system into view.
On stage about innovation, measurement, and what we get wrong about progress.
To industry rooms and to communities that don't usually let a strategist near the mic.
Live Today, Love Tomorrow.