michael kuehner

coach and industry advisor transformational leader|lateral thinker|strategic visionary|elite communicator|change agent german by birth, asian by choice

[michael kuehner @michaelkuehner]

@onlyskypace 9

[Jan Willem Prosje 🇺🇦 🧴 @jwprosje]

1. Dat gezeur over de echte Nederlander.
Fries is ouder dan het Nederlands. Het Fries ontstond in de vroege middeleeuwen (rond 500 n.Chr.) uit een gezamenlijke Germaanse stamtaal langs de Noordzeekust.

[Shermin Amiri @SherminAmiri]

Na een dag waarin anderen mij opnieuw wilden uitleggen van wie Nederland is, sluit ik af in Oranje.

Ik heb dit land niet geërfd. Ik heb het leren kennen en ben ervan gaan houden. Via de taal die ik met moeite leerde, de wetten die ik serieus neem, de vrijheden die ik niet vanzelfsprekend vind en de gewoonten die ik stap voor stap ben gaan begrijpen. Ook de ongemakkelijke.

Hier werk ik, hier leef ik, hier draag ik bij, hier voer ik het publieke gesprek en hier ben ik thuisgeraakt. Mijn wieg stond elders, maar mijn leven ligt hier. Ik vraag niemand om toestemming om van Nederland te houden.

Nederland is ook van ons.

Fijne avond! 🇳🇱

[China pulse 🇨🇳 @Eng_china5]

DO YOU KNOW THE CHINESE WOMAN
At last night’s dinner banquet, a Chinese woman from Hunan sat in the most prominent seat between two figures known to the entire world: to her left, Tim Cook, and to her right, Elon Musk.

Forty years ago, she was a poor rural girl who left school at the age of 15.

Her name is Zhou Qunfei

She lost her mother at five, and her father was injured in an accident while making explosives, leaving him blind with damaged hands. The family survived by making handmade baskets.

At fifteen, she left her village for Guangdong to work, joining a watch‑glass factory in Shenzhen. She worked on the production line during the day and studied at night school, earning certificates in accounting, computing, customs clearance, and driving.

After just three years, she rose from a simple worker to a factory manager.

But she later resigned after being sidelined in favor of the owners’ relatives.

She left with modest capital: 20,000 yuan and eight of her relatives.

They rented a small apartment that became both a factory and a home. She would go from factory to factory offering her services, then return at night to work until 3 a.m.

She continued like this for ten years.

Then came the first opportunity in 2003.

Motorola wanted to manufacture its iconic V3 phone with nearly impossible specifications: ultra‑thin, ultra‑clear glass with zero defects.

Every factory refused.

She accepted.

The mission succeeded, and the phone sold more than 100 million units worldwide. From there, **Lens Technology** was born.

Then came Apple.

When Steve Jobs wanted to build the first iPhone with a strengthened glass that had never been commercially produced, Apple’s engineers searched the world for a factory willing to take the challenge.

They found only Zhou Qunfei.

After months of joint work, she succeeded in producing the first iPhone screen, later becoming the largest supplier of glass for Apple devices—from iPhone to iPad, MacBook, and Apple Watch.

Tesla, Mercedes, BMW, and others followed, entrusting her with manufacturing automotive glass, smart displays, and even components for humanoid robots.

That is why she sat in the most prominent seat last night.

To her left, Tim Cook, whose Apple has relied on her factories for 18 years; to her right, Elon Musk, whose Tesla and Optimus robots depend on her technologies.

When asked about the secret of her success, she did not speak of luck, intelligence, or even hard work.

She simply said:

Dare to accept.

Then added:

The things others see as impossible… accept them.
The tasks everyone runs away from… accept them.
When you accept the challenge, you learn how to succeed in it.
And when you succeed, bigger challenges come to you.
Opportunities are not discovered by people… opportunities are the things others abandon, and you bend down to pick them up.

[michael kuehner @michaelkuehner]

Great place

[The Edge Malaysia @theedgemalaysia]

[Branded] Bringing Nusantara to the table

[Regina Bauer 🇪🇪🇺🇦 @petite_michelle]

A matter of trust.

Every year, Finland tops the World Happiness Report. Economists point to welfare systems. Sociologists cite education. But having visited Finland — and eventually bought an apartment in Vantaa — I think the real answer is something harder to measure.

It's trust. Not as a value on a poster. As the actual foundation of how society works.

From the very first trip, it struck me. People trust strangers. Institutions trust citizens. The state trusts its people to make good decisions, and people trust the state not to abuse that. It sounds simple. It is anything but.

When I went through the process of buying property in Finland, the contrast with other places I know was almost surreal. The system assumed good faith — at every step. No one treated me like a potential problem to be managed. That trust wasn't naive. It was structural, built over generations into laws, culture, and everyday habits.

And here's the thing about trust: it's self-reinforcing. When people trust each other, they cooperate. When they cooperate, things work. When things work, trust deepens. Finland isn't happy despite its challenges — it's resilient through them because the social fabric holds.

Happiness reports measure outcomes. Trust is the mechanism. That's what Finland quietly taught me. 🇫🇮

[Toni Mikkola 🏴‍☠️ @virtaava]

As USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort — the only two actual US Navy hospital ships — are both in dry dock right now, sending either of them is… let’s say, wildly optimistic.

But don’t worry.

At the request of the Governor of Louisiana, a “hospital boat” is apparently on the way.

Here is the boat in question.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

We are the laughingstock of the world because of our moronic and psychotic president. Deservedly so.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

MY COUNTRY NORWAY WOULD LIKE TO HELP BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL THAT TWO MENTAL HEALTH HOSPITAL SHIPS IS ENOUGH TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IN AMERICA TODAY 🤷

[Dag Kr Moen Hæhre @DagKrMoen]

Denmark has decided to reciprocate the help from the US, they are now sending a fleet of library ships so that Americans can read freely, books completely uncensored.

[michael kuehner @michaelkuehner]

Can this behaviour be the result of a medical condition?

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

I am allowed to destroy a country. I am even allowed to impose a destructive embargo on a foreign country. I can do whatever I want – Trump.

Trump is completely insane.

[JustFit🌏🇪🇺🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 @clarinette01]

@Daractenus

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

In an attempt to possibly explain why 77 million Americans voted for this man, while simultaneously explaining just why it is that Europeans live substantially longer, I’m absolutely delighted to introduce the revised list of US food that you cannot legally sell in Europe!🧵

[JaapHamburger @hamburger_jaap]

“Niet eenvoudig geschreven, maar de moeite meer dan waard.” Rubio declared a return to brutal western colonialism - and Europe applauded https://t.co/ESCnetgY7Y

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

CNN destroys JD Vance's denial of saying ICE has "absolute immunity" with a clip of... JD Vance saying they have absolute immunity.

They had the receipts.
Share widely.

[michael kuehner @michaelkuehner]

@geertwilderspvv 🤣🤣🤣

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

Not long ago, I would have said there’s no way in hell that this could happen in America, but that was then and this is now.

So, here’s the scenario that could unfold:

[michael kuehner @michaelkuehner]

I don't travel to countries which treat visitors like that. 😠😡✈️
INSIDE USA - «You have no right to be here»: A Swiss woman's harrowing tale of arrest and detention at the US border https://t.co/daul5BfJiv via @NZZ 🤕👮‍♀️🚨

[michael kuehner @michaelkuehner]

@MiRo_SPD Grotesk

[FaggotsForFuture ✊🌈✊ @RealTadzioM]

GuMo im #Kollaps: "It’s too late.

David Suzuki says the fight against climate change IS LOST.

'We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same econ and pol systems. What we’ve got to do now is hunker down"/#SoliPrepping.
https://t.co/uWZpR1EZUV