👋 Hey
Two principles:
- I only do work that I feel is play
- What you do is who you are
So here's what I do:
- I help tech leaders run better teams, focusing on scaling important systems when you need to grow quickly. I do this a few hours per week.
- Organizing a global community of founders, operators and science people with catalyst.place.
- Building an ultimate self-directed learning product (released soon!) -> waitlist
- Small angel investments for founder friends.
- Reading (let's connect if we read similarly!)
- Randomly share a video on the The Systematic Mastery podcast every now and then.
- Calisthenics
- Driving bikes (Moto Guzzi lover here) in beautiful areas
Stuff I think about
I'm interested in public interest technology, and fascinated by the idea of flourishing/Eudaimonia with the aid of technology and a hint of futurism. And how to build cool stuff.
I've been doing the CTO/founder thing for over a decade now so I've touched a lot of stuff; all kinds of programming languages, DevOps tools, frontend, apps, you name it. Jack of all trades, master of none. But with genAI that matters less. I think it's easier than ever to become a master of everything if you were previously a jack of all trades.
Find me:
You can mostly find me trying to build ideas, my body and mind, infrastructure or software. Maybe some more physical things soon. Or just something I broke by accident ;)
Find me online:
- Walkthroughs of my second brain
- Podcast with Nils Paar: YouTube channel and Spotify
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zowielangdon/
- Github: https://github.com/Zowie
- Blog: https://zowielangdon.nl / https://eclecticrhetoric.com
- Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/zowielangdon
- Media (YouTube, news etc): NRC (Dutch newspaper) on getting women into coding, Telegraaf 'Bridge to bitcoins', Blockport meetup #1 (talk), Future of Blockport (talk), Commercial on Dutch national television, Empower the digital economy (promo), Interview on Crypto Beadles, Political Persona project attracting millions of users in Australia ('What kind of Aussie are you?' with Fairfax media)