Hellooo! I’m glad you’re looking around my homepage / blog a bit, and hopefully you’ll read the odd post too.
In this first blog post I want to talk about who I am, what kind of writing you can expect, and why in 2026 I decided on a blog of all things.
A René in the wild
Hi, my name is René Jesser and at the tender age of 32 I decided to turn my life upside down a bit. Not necessarily because I have to, but because I want to. How well that’ll work out in the end is still unclear, but anyone who reads along a little can follow the project, and maybe the odd point will be interesting for you or people around you as well.
I’m from the small town of Mainburg in the middle of the Hallertau, surrounded
by hop gardens. I grew up here, went to school here, and started my own
business here as an audio engineer. A lot has happened since then: I was out
at a lot of concerts, trade fairs, and every other kind of event. In parallel
I recorded bands and mixed the songs too. From 2016 I specialized fully in
recording and mixing. And I was — still am — fairly successful at it: with
several gold and platinum records and over 2 billion streams, I definitely hit
and surpassed every item on my bucket list that I thought I’d never reach.
I’m admittedly very proud of that, and still — or precisely because of that —
over the last 2–3 years the wish to
New paths without roads
Unlike my first time going independent in audio, it wasn’t clear at first where this new trip was supposed to go. I have a lot of interests, but the question is always how you build a new career out of interests in a world where career paths are no longer really possible, or only in a limited way, and at the same time everything feels like it changes every week. I still don’t have the answer to that, but I decided to start with the topics that interest me most and then hope the actual paths show up from there.
So, here we go:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Psychology
What’s interesting about both topics is that there are points that overlap — or that matter for both — and there are areas that are really far apart. That’s exactly what fascinates me.
I’m teaching myself artificial intelligence. I experiment with new models, I program, I try to find bugs or fix them, I read research papers on the topic, I think about what the tools are doing with me and which moral and ethical questions come up along the way.
Psychology, on the other hand, I’m studying at FernUniversität Hagen, going for a more “classic” education. Of course I know you don’t only deal with psychological topics at university — you also deal with them in everyday life, in my work as a mixing engineer, and as a person in general. People and relationships have always fascinated me, so on this new path I wanted to finally go for that dream and go deeper.
Those two areas are also what this blog will be made of. Sometimes both will show up in one post, sometimes only AI or only psychology. I know that’s very broadly put, and both fields are huge and varied. Right now it’s important to me to stay as open as possible and see where the trip goes. Over time, focuses will crystallize and I’ll go deeper into those — but at the beginning I’m just learning to swim and trying to get oriented.
My personal goal is to let you in on how I discover new paths for myself, what I run into along the way, and how I think about it.
Why a blog?
I know a blog doesn’t match the spirit of 2026, especially when it feels like everything is being pushed toward hype and viral moments. A blog is the exact opposite of that:
Hard to find, long gaps between posts, you have to read, little interactivity, and so on.
For me, those are exactly the reasons to write a blog at all. I find social
media exhausting at times, and I regularly notice that I feel fundamentally
better mentally when I stay off the platforms. I also find the idea that
people actually have to look for my blog — instead of having everything
suggested by an algorithm — pretty charming. Which brings me straight to my
next point: a blog is
On top of that, I’ve rediscovered writing for myself. As a little kid I always loved writing or telling stories, and I liked disappearing into that parallel world. During school that unfortunately faded a bit — partly because other things became more important, and partly because German class often wasn’t exactly the biggest motivator. Every time I did write again after school, I noticed that at least a few thoughts had become clearer or more sorted. Still, I often didn’t take the time to write regularly, even if it was “just” a diary.
During last year’s studies (educational sciences) I noticed again how much fun it can be to write down your thoughts, sort them, revise them, and present them. That’s the approach I want to intensify now, and write regularly. On the side, I also think writing could be quite helpful for how well I actually learn.
Short version: the blog is my starting point for sorting my thoughts and working through what I’ve learned. A kind of written, formulated memory — for me, but also for anyone who wants to read along. By the way, I’m also very motivated to work on my writing. This is a first “attempt at swimming,” to stick with the metaphor from earlier.
René