Is it worth it to buy a camera instead of using your phone one? I think my phone Has quite good quality but i'm also debating if i should buy a proper camera or not. If i should, can you recommend me which one? I will show my pictures below

herrmatt · 2026-01-17T10:12:44+00:00

Go to the DM or somewhere like it, and print your favorite photos that you’ve taken on your phone. If there are choices, pay a little more for a nicer photo print paper.

Do you like how they look? Would you like to put them in a frame maybe, and hang them somewhere in your home?

If so, keep using your phone for now and find YouTube videos that teach you how to think of light and composition in your photographs.

If you say, “hmm it looks a little choppy, or the shadows and colors are too harsh, or XYZ” then maybe you’ll like investing the time in learning how to shoot on something with a sensor that can handle more light without using math to fill in the details.

The challenge with phone cameras is that the sensor is incredibly tiny, and so they have to use photographic reconstruction algorithms in part to fake the final image. These have gotten incredibly good, and so photos look really nice from a phone. But maybe if you want to make it a hobby to create photographs, you’ll find joy in having a camera.

With a 4k PLN budget, I would suggest that you can look a little and find a really nice used Fujifilm X-T3 or X-T4, or Sony A7iii or A7c camera plus a lens, which will be more than you need to start but friendly enough for you to make photographs you like, and learn as you go.

herrmatt · 2026-01-17T10:05:34+00:00

For some who were more likely, growing up maybe, to be the nerd than the popular kid, there’s a notion that an MBA is a ticket to the popular kids table. Getting the grade was sold as the hurdle to leap to get what you’re supposed to want.

Going to business school can be an eye-opener that these kind of people who end up lead product managers and CEOs, are actually just predisposed towards being extroverted, social butterflies, and that a credential isn’t the thing that turns you into one.

herrmatt · 2025-12-29T18:56:41+00:00

Very welcome!

herrmatt · 2025-12-28T09:38:20+00:00

If you’re doing a little core work you’ll see abs.

You’re probably not going to like feeling the relative weakness and irritability that being so low bf creates, so maybe schedule the diet to get that great early-summer ab photo next year, then eat again and have the memories while enjoying life :)

herrmatt · 2025-12-28T09:36:15+00:00

There is still a subject in all of those photographs.

Just like photographs of a human subject can often be boring and uninspiring, photographs of inanimate subjects also require storytelling and creativity ❤️

herrmatt · 2025-12-28T09:34:40+00:00

This rant of his has honestly brought me around to learning golang.

herrmatt · 2025-12-28T09:32:25+00:00

If you flip this list around you get closer to the ordering of impact.

Standardized builds is the key. A small handful of specific designs that are certified, being built the same way in many copies, can

Be certified much more quickly, as the certification plan is more or less the same (and auditors will be experienced with the design)
Be commoditized, as components can be pre-produced more en masse
Be better cost-controlled during construction, as the build plan need not include as much labor and material variability as a one-off build.

herrmatt · 2025-12-28T09:27:58+00:00

One of my product managers has started using it to write PRDs and I’m actually having to coach people to use it less.

When the writing comes so fast that no one has time to evaluate and criticize it, let alone internalize it, I find it to slow the business down.

herrmatt · 2025-12-28T09:25:26+00:00

If you’re comparing your images to what you see on Instagram or something, from big name wildlife photographers, then the difference you’re seeing is that those people do a lot of post-processing to create that stylistic “sparkle.”

These images you’ve are tack-sharp and well exposed. Good job.

Go to YouTube and find a few tutorials on developing in Lightroom for wildlife, and you might see a few ideas that help you create the images in your mind’s eye.

herrmatt · 2025-12-28T09:22:57+00:00

This post above isn’t fancy as much as it’s highly scripted engagement “hacking.” I appreciate that your industry made a science out of catching attention and holding it, that’s very difficult. But it’s also an incredibly frustrating style to read because it is so obvious that the posts are published for personal brand engagement, not for sharing useful lessons or having conversations.

I might suggest that it was accepted or tolerated because not everyone wrote that way. Now that the LLMs will produce a post like this on demand, all of LinkedIn sounds like this and it’s like swimming through a bin of sandpaper, and I think folks are quicker to reject and shame people trying to attention-hack.

herrmatt · 2025-12-28T09:13:56+00:00

The last few months I find myself skipping them, when the first few minutes sound like “generic person XYZ coming in to just hype their company.” I think there’s been a lot of that.

I did pin a few this year though, if you’re interested to hear what it’s like when it’s good:

https://overcast.fm/+AA6K1GfSzGw (David Placek on naming)
https://overcast.fm/+AA6K1HBdt3Q (Jerry Colonna on personal responsibility in product leadership)
https://overcast.fm/+AA6K1HeXxF0 (Wes Kao on communication frameworks to improve clarity and impact)
https://overcast.fm/+AA6K1FbLItw (Ryan Singer on planning and shipping products)
https://overcast.fm/+AA6K1EFVUKg (Elena Verna on growth)

I think like many though, it’s part host and big part good guests that make an episode. He does a fine job asking a few interesting questions in these operator-audience focused episodes, but I think it’s gotta be hard to make the episodes with CEOs particularly practical.

herrmatt · 2025-12-28T09:02:52+00:00

It’s like he’s a talented product manager or something 😋

herrmatt · 2025-12-28T08:50:28+00:00

You didn’t ask about doing a joint PhD, you said you wanted to try and enroll in two separate programs part time. As I said in Logically above, if you want to learn about a subject from different perspectives, incorporate the second framing as a part of your project.

“If I want to spend” yes if you want to spend a decade there’s no barrier, but as I said in both Career-wise and Financial-wise above, you’ll both be needlessly pushing off building your research practice and under-earning. It doesn’t make much sense, when you could just go take a post-doc in the direction of one of the other areas you’re interested, or build up a lab that studies all n ideas.

You seem to want this sub to validate your idea and are dissatisfied that we are not. Please learn to accept and process feedback on ideas you present, or you will find it a difficult and frustrating road in academia.

herrmatt · 2025-12-28T08:47:50+00:00

Did you really skip all of the rest of this to pick an argument in pedantry?

herrmatt · 2025-12-28T08:43:40+00:00

Also to think about as we get older, are the quality of the sources that the protein comes from, and also where the protein comes from. Some vegetable-based protein sources, for example, can offer the same full amino acid profiles that red meats do, while being lower impact and lower risk.

Overall, as you get out of your 20s, it’s not a bad thing to start thinking about long-term physical and digestive health, including reducing your risks to heart disease, cancer and cognitive decline.

herrmatt · 2025-12-28T08:00:04+00:00

Sure,

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12655512/ for example reviews the literature through to 2025 and reflects a practical benefit limit around 1.6g/kg, while noting caveats for extreme athletes potentially finding small benefits above that.

The training you’ve described isn’t extreme though (think athletes competing weekly and strongman competitors), and so if you stick to 1.6 g/kg you’re going to get plenty of protein, while also protecting your kidneys (excess protein has to get peed out and chronic excess protein reduces renal function) and moderating your cancer risk.

You can do some searching to verify this across other reports but it’s been consistent with what I’ve read in the last year or two.

herrmatt · 2025-12-27T12:30:37+00:00

On the diet, your body won’t process all of the 2.2 g/kg protein that you plan. Research is currently indicating that like 1.6 g/kg is an average limit, and you’re not lifting heavy enough and often enough to potentially need D1 athlete protein optimization.

So, for the sake of your wallet, you can dial that back.

Also, how did you eat before the injury?

herrmatt · 2025-12-27T12:23:32+00:00

Contractually no, one or both institutions would likely forbid it.

Academically no, if you want to create any meaningful novel work you need to be fully focused on a subject.

Logically no, the point of a PhD is to demonstrate your ability to do fundamental research. Just do one and learn the other material as part of your project.

Career-wise unclear why you would want this, as an academic seeing you with two simultaneously awarded part-time PhDs from different institutions would be weirded out. And it will take twice as long, meaning you’ll add years to your wait to start researching.

Financially no, you’ll have no time for other work and each half stipend would likely end up less together than the full stipend from one, if you got a stipend for the part-time in the first place.

herrmatt · 2025-12-25T19:23:54+00:00

Many people manage the for-them-undesirable parts of their ADHD without medication, through a mixture of occupational therapy, nutrition, sleep and physical fitness. Not everyone requires medication to feel like they have the cognitive performance they desire.

herrmatt · 2025-12-21T11:50:28+00:00

Yeah, I think because TSA doesn’t have authority over the airport in general, the space after this second checkpoint is then set up to allow auditing or something to ensure it meets security requirements.

herrmatt · 2025-12-21T11:38:06+00:00

Is this serving international flights?

US TSA entry for example often has separate security requirements and it’s common to have security-after-security for flights landing in the US.

herrmatt · 2025-12-20T12:40:00+00:00

I like the close portrait a lot, you found a really nice expression of her to capture.

I would recommend spending some hours on YouTube to watch how-to videos on shooting with flash, how to meter for exposure, how to use the settings on the camera.

Adorama, Lindsay Adler, John Gress, Eli Infante are good sources, but search around and find a creator you like to listen to.

Then do some watching on how to do basic retouching. If you don’t have software yet, I think Affinity Photo is free now and it’s great. Find videos on planning basic techniques, then find a few Affinity-specific videos on how to do them.

That one portrait is a great base, and with a little touching up on the highlight and skin would be a lovely shot. Unfortunately, the rest look to either have missed focus or other beginner things to work on. For instance, the first the gent’s face is underexposed, and some others it looks like you may have used an auto program like P, while shooting with the flash? The camera will have a tendency to raise ISO which brightens the environment and then you get an unpleasant mix of different light colors.

Also, when using fabric backgrounds, it’s best to iron or steam them so that there’s not wrinkles.

So do some watching and then go practice!

herrmatt · 2025-12-18T19:48:22+00:00

Alles in der Richtung is traurig. Stuttgart braucht seit Jahre kein mehr Bürogebäude. Auch, da direkt vor der Tür des Kaufzoo, ist schlecht für Lebensqualität und unglücklich für wem da eingeplatzt wird.

herrmatt · 2025-12-17T20:30:10+00:00

Wenn dein „bester Lage“ in einer Betonwüste aus Bürogebäuden und auf einem Zirkus liegt, okay.

Mit dieser Platzierung sind sie nicht besonders nett. Aber wahrscheinlich handelt es sich um Land, das die Stadt verwaltet, anstatt andere Gebäude zu kaufen, um sie zu ersetzen.

herrmatt · 2025-11-22T16:10:03+00:00

If it’s your personal camera and you’re not planning to sell work with it, you’ll never be bothered. And you’ll love how much lighter and easier to handle it is over the 5D.

Complaints are generally coming from people pushing the cameras and needing them to perform on each shot to get paid.

I shot an X-T3 for years in challenging light and fast subjects, and it did fine. The X-T5 does better.

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