I now help other founders I've been building a cool group of founders and operators lately. And writing a few small angel cheques while building my own product. All of that is new to me, and it's been rewarding. It's been especially fun to have 1 hour coffees and
Playbook output Building products and startups is like max 40% playbook (certain failure) and 60% unique strategic creativity (a little less certain failure). And those startups are made up of people (and an agent or 2). It's kind of weird to me that we treat roles as playbook-work, but expect
Reflection Featured 2024 Annual review - a small review This year, I hosted a small 2024 reflection group. I had around 8 carefully invited people from founder/tech/academic areas come over, drink tea, and dig deep into what's going on in our lives we like to let go of, understand better, or fuel in 2025.
Summary of Ray Dalio's 'Changing world order' From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8&ab_channel=PrinciplesbyRayDalio I like making summaries, and notes. I figured I can publish some of them. So here's one on a cool macroeconomics video from Ray Dalio: What happened in the past, can happen in the future. Especially
Meaning excerpt Expedient experiences come about by following blind impulse. Meaning follows from its more mature counterpart; intention. Meaning emerges when impulses are regulated, organized, and unified. From the interplay of the possibilities of the world, and the value structure operating within that world. Taken from the book 12 Rules for Life:
Motivation and productivity Consistency is for the ego Consistency for consistency's sake is for the ego. It's simple. Consistency for progress' sake is for added value. It's hard.
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.
DevOps Digest - Stoicism and building software without a real computer Stoic philosophy, values, engineering without a laptop.
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.
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 Random information digest 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 Featured 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.
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 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 Featured 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.
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.
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 by #BOOS, a YouTube channel where Dutch presenter and extremely funny Tim Hofman joyfully helps people with their
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..
Security DDoS Kieskompas 2017 (Dutch) Hoe gerichte DDoS aanvallen op Kieskompas de verkiezingen een onverwachte wending gaven
Programming Optimize Django for Performance Django is good stuff. I'm very convinced of that. However, there are always tradeoffs for awesomeness :) In Django, and in my opinion, this is performance. But a part of Django's awesomeness is its community, and boy did it take care of this problem the right way!
DevOps Good quote on security AviD's Rule of Usability: Security at the expense of usability comes at the expense of security. Taken from: Security StackExchange Very accurate and a good KISS message in there as well :-) Not only in interfaces but also in security, our limitations of us humans have to be
Kieskompas Het Kieskompas TK2017 - wat een werk! DDoS aanvallen Lees hier meer over de DDoS aanvallen op het Kieskompas. Het Kieskompas Zaterdag 11 februari is het Kieskompas voor de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen live gegaan. Kieskompas is een wetenschappelijk verantwoorde stemhulp die - sinds 2006 - miljoenen Nederlandse kiezers heeft geholpen bij het maken van een afgewogen keuze. Naast
Leadership and organizations Service, Tech and Startups I'm the founder and managing director of the technical startup, Luminum Solutions, and a co-founder/co-developer/partner of two others: Freundlich and Capture Camera. Here, my day-to-day responsibilities include building cool solutions as backends and platforms, scaling large systems, operations, strategy, decision-making, and communication. I'm also
