Is remote working for you? With COVID-19 being a global reality, the ability to work from anywhere is suddenly a lot more valuable: we need to be more location independent. I've been a remote worker
Thinking tool Relationship^2 We often find ourselves doomed or graced by our relationship with the world. This is a mental model to help manage relationships with the world.
Thinking Digest #5 - Strengthening body and mind as a builder Being strong is a character trait that is both endlessly rewarding and challenging. Finding ways to integrate thorough understanding of 'strength' as a character trait into your life can transform things in ways you didn't think possible. I'm on a constant exploration of this improvement.
DevOps Digest #4 - Stoicism and building software without a real computer Stoic philosophy, values, engineering without a laptop.
Thinking Information digest #3: socializing, relationships, DevSecOps, crypto This week had somewhat of a theme again: socializing, dating, happiness. I also started on my new quest: thinking. Hint: Build up the life that others will love, so you can make them part of it.
Motivation and productivity Happiness ensues values The Cambridge dictionary describes 'values' as: the principles that help you decide what is right and wrong, and how to act in various situations. Seems pretty important.
Information digests Information digest #2: Marketing, values, emotional connection, sleep An attempt at describing love, the life changing impact of putting 'self' in its place and cultivating our self-set values. Also some about sleep and marriage..
Thinking tool Commitment grounding Thinking about a potential commitment in terms of its outcome, with your own core values as the end and your energy and time as the means.
Thinking tool Rubber duck debugging As if you’re explaining the problem to a child (or better yet, an actual rubber duck), go through a situation step by step.
Information digests Information digest #1: Relationships, ethics, anxiety (of generation Y) Here’s a small summary of things I consumed recently that were pretty interesting. I listed the cool stuff cause, well, it’s cool, obviously.
Ideas Happiness and trivial suffering If we relate suffering to the effects it has on us, we can clearly see that our response to suffering helps us find meaning in life.
Health You are your mitochondria These little bacteria affect your body way more than you think! They are autonomous in terms of their goals as a bacteria, and part of who you are.
Thinking Reflection on Sex and happiness We all know that sexuality has a big effect on how we feel. Sexual, and honest good sexual experiences - without a fixation on an orgasm or any other 'goal' - have a great impact on happiness and energy.
Thinking Reflection on gratitude You’re your own tool and life partner. Improving your life and that of others greatly depends on how you develop yourself and the relationship with yourself, and allows you to reach common goals of growing in power, strength and handling and maintaining power well.
Thinking tool Self regulatory recalibration (grounding) Become aware of the now, shift back to yourself at the centre of your experience and emotionally grasp for your principles of unity, power, audacity and love.
Thinking Ugh, so what IS meaning? We experience truth, a truth that corresponds to our values and accentuates our own manifestation in this world. Self actualization.
blockchain Blockchain's role in the global distribution of power Innovations that enable efficient distribution of information or wealth can change the world. Think of the internet and our banking system. I believe the internet enables a constant, gradual change in power structures through stimulating distribution of information.
blockchain Regulation on crypto in the Netherlands There are many ways in which the innovations around Blockchain can be better adopted by the Dutch government.
Thinking tool Self-homeostasis A phenomenological tool resembling a healthy state and perception of self.
Thinking tool Habitual recalibration Remove habits or change behavior by changing the availability of something (fully, or form of) in your life, making room for new things to fill that time or ensuring you create new habits.
Thinking tool Self-subjecting Thinking about a concept that can be experienced, while you think of yourself experiencing it.
Stories Polertiek nominated for Dutch Interactive Awards Polertiek, an app built by Elastique and BNNVARA and using the API of Kieskompas that we've built, has been nominated for the Dutch Interactive Awards! Polertiek Polertiek was an initiative
How to How to: Autoscaling Gitlab Continuous Integration runners GCP 🤓 Test runner servers can consume quite some resources, which is rather expensive. But even more problematic is a filled up queue of pipelines that block releases..
Stories Beyond the single node 🔌 📟 Over the years, we've done quite some migrations as the company and our skills scaled. We've gone from a single node to a multi-tier cluster using Kubernetes, self maintained worker
Programming Why I believe in the Python community A good community needs a certain vision, and any good vision needs validation and support from the community it belongs to.
