Understanding health IT. Thinking clearly. Looking closely.

Hey, I'm Marc!

I grew up in Neckarau, a district of Mannheim, and later studied in Mannheim and in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. These days I live in Reilingen with my wife and son.

Professionally, I've been Skill & Competence Manager at Deutsche Telekom Clinical Solutions GmbH since 2014, a company that builds hospital information systems. I organize internal training for our consulting team, digitize seminars — internally and for clients — and produce e-learning content with Articulate 360. Before that, I spent years working as a consultant myself, at Tieto and, before that, Waldbrenner AG: implementing and customizing hospital information systems, training staff on the client side. I'm not a technician. More someone who understands what both sides actually need — between the technology and the everyday reality of a hospital.

Since 2020, I've been deep into personal knowledge management, PKM. I run mine on Tiago Forte's C.O.D.E. method, in Obsidian. Part of that method is the E, for Express — sharing what you know. That's why I write on mk-13.de about the things that feel worth publishing: third places, for instance, or why a day can pass without the work ever getting done.

Photography is my real passion, older than everything else here. I took my first photo at eight, out of a moving car, with my mother's camera. At ten came my first camera of my own, a compact. The first real camera, a Minolta X-700, arrived when I was eighteen. I've shot digital since 1999, and a lot on iPhone since 2019, alongside the DSLR. Mostly I photograph people and landscapes, usually while traveling: Canada, Scandinavia, Alsace, New York. Some of the images on mko.photo are over twenty years old.

And when there's no camera or nothing to read nearby, I'm probably tinkering with some automation for everyday life — shortcuts, small scripts, organizing systems that nobody but me actually needs.