I’m Björn Burghard, a pedagogue, journalist, and founder based in Bonn, Germany.
I come from education science: I hold a degree as Diplom-Pädagoge and am a certified facilitator (Kommunikationslotsen). For more than 15 years I have worked on coaching, training and organisational development inside a large German corporation: facilitating large-group processes, designing participatory formats, and helping teams through transitions. That practice is where a recurring question in my writing comes from: what happens when people get stuck?
My writing explores a recurring pattern: what happens when people get stuck?
- In video games, that’s the moment a player quits instead of finding the next step.
- In organizations, it’s the meeting where nothing moves.
- In life transitions, it’s the gap between arriving somewhere new and actually belonging.
I write analytically, with sources. No listicles, no marketing language. If you’re looking for quick tips, this isn’t the right place. If you want to understand why friction happens and what design can do about it, you’re in the right place.
Waycleft.com brings together work that used to live across separate places: gaming guides, essays, field notes, organizational experience, and early product ideas. Depending on context, I may appear as a journalist, researcher, facilitator, or founder.
But the underlying question stays the same: why people get stuck and what helps them move again.
Where to find me
- Writing: waycleft.com (here)
- Gaming guides: klabbi.info. This is my long-running German gaming site with guides, player-facing articles, and a newsletter audience. It remains separate from Waycleft.com, but it informs my work on player friction, guide knowledge, and SurvivalFox.app.
- Guest pieces: spielecheck.gg, guided.news
- In English: medium.com/@björnburghard
- Professional contact: LinkedIn