Berlin Is Not a Romantic Choice
Building NEXUS where friction is visible and bandwidth is not a liability
Where do you go when you are no longer challenged? What do you do when your bandwidth exceeds the rooms you’re expected to fit into?
I am often asked why my next step is Berlin.
Not Amsterdam.
Not Oslo.
Not back to something predictable.
Berlin is not a romantic choice.
It is a pressure point.
A place where friction is visible.
Where systems are under strain.
Where creativity is not a luxury, but a necessity.
That is exactly the environment I am looking for.
What I am starting there — NEXUS — is built for exceptions.
For people who rarely find fulfillment in conventional environments. Who read, feel, understand and anticipate faster than their surroundings. Who are not looking for validation, but for a space where their bandwidth is not treated as a problem — but as a prerequisite.
NEXUS will not be a networking club.
Not a gathering around a label.
Not a support circle for shared identity.
I am building a workshop in Berlin.
A creative field of consciousness.
A place where high-bandwidth individuals and heterodox thinkers can land, resonate, accelerate and awaken — supported by experience, coaching, a physical hub, coffee, bicycles and concrete projects (including 1926 – Skiens Cykkelfabrik).
No identity politics.
No victim narrative.
No discussion without execution.
Clarity.
Ownership.
Application.
No theory without practice.
Berlin is not a backdrop.
It is a test.
What works there is strong enough. What does not land there was never sharp enough.
I will share how this develops over time.
That is why Berlin.
Dismantling is not a law of nature.
If you read this and recognize that your pace, your perception and your sensitivity are rarely mirrored in your environment, you can reach out.
Not to introduce yourself.
But to test whether NEXUS might be built for you.
I’ve been involved in this since the early DUCKMADE days, through Mavericks and alongside Collosom, and now seeing it consolidate into NEXUS. Berlin was never a romantic move. Berlin is layered, divided, and historically loaded. Wherever you walk or look outside, friction is visible. Even within the city, districts feel like different worlds still echoing East and West.
That’s exactly why it makes sense. A place without tension is intellectually uninteresting, boring even. Berlin is a calibration. The refusal to compress people into labels or victim narratives. It’s about clarity, having orientation, and implementing real feedback loops with peers who actually think and move alongside with you. I’m involved in building this. If this resonates, reach out and test whether it fits.