Booki The Human Network Explosion In the past 2 centuries, urbanisation, distance communication (telegram, calling, television, internet, flat communication) and accessible commuting speed has caused our networks to expand. As a result, we are digesting
Booki #to{anything} Lately, I've been working on my workflow a lot and gained a lot of consciousness on my screen habits. Then, I made some rules to make me even more conscious and less impulsive. The hashtagI now use #toRemember, #toSearch, #toSay when I have a
Mindset & Lifestyle development The Hammock Experiment My housemate was looking funny at me when I told him I slept in a hammock last night. In the past 6 days, I've been sleeping in a hammock now. And I'm not feeling that bad at all! Millions of people sleep in hammocks
Mindset & Lifestyle development Daylight is good for me Daylight is good for me. In Scandinavia (but also in the Netherlands), a lot of people are depressed because they don't get enough daylight. Still though, people in the Netherlands
Mindset & Lifestyle development Effective Communication A human mind contains a model of reality that helps you to function in the world by understanding it and how to interact with it. Spoken language is a protocol of information exchange that helps us to change this model. Lots of people don’
Entrepreneurship Lean Life A nice song to play while I'm braggin' I'm getting more and more confidence in my own startup ideas. I'm learning quickly and applying new things fast. I'm quite confident
Booki About Single Tasking and Screen/Window Setup on your Mac and Phones Multitasking is bad for focus and productivity Single Tasking seems to be the way to go It is often said that having multiple screens is good for productivity. However, I
Mindset & Lifestyle development My food goals of 2019: Eat more paleo, ecological and don't go to the supermarket every day This month I made the move to the wild west: Amsterdam, to pursue my goals as an entrepreneur and start working at two startups as full stack app developer. With
Mindset & Lifestyle development My 7 Levels of Freedom to minimise stress, doubt and regret and maximise possibility, happiness and growth My 7 Levels of Freedom to minimise stress, doubt and regret and maximise possibility, happiness and growth: In my eyes these are 7 different levels of freedom that are most important: Location freedom: Being able to do your work from as many locations as
Mindset & Lifestyle development Changing reachability to increase productivity Problem: when work is boring or hard, or when potentially incoming communication is very interesting, it can be hard not to check your communication channels every few minutes. When I
Mindset & Lifestyle development It's Nyepi in Bali. Time to reflect It's Saturday, the 17th of March 2018, and I woke up at 5:45 without alarm. It's crazy what a routine can do to your body. In the last weeks,
Entrepreneurship How I’m going to make 2018 my most impactful year yet — A clear vision, fear-setting, and a crystal clear plan. This article also appeared on Medium. Go there to get it with useful links. Recently, I wrote a summary about my 2017. In short, it has been the most transformative
Mindset & Lifestyle development Justified Dopamine Dopamine gets you high. It makes you satisfied and confident. There are a few drugs that trigger it: alcohol, cocaine, morphine.... but what triggers it more? Gambling, porn, sugar, social
Mindset & Lifestyle development What if dopamine triggers fuck up your long-term productivity? What if short-term pseudo happiness such as food, sweets, facebook, email, WhatsApp and instagram are all mere distractions? I have some low lows in which I feel really bad about
Mindset & Lifestyle development The basis: what comes after happiness? The book of Harari about superhumans (called Homo Deus) inspires me to think many thoughts...... Among other things, he states that we will always crave more as humans, so we
Mindset & Lifestyle development Is Facebook as addictive as Heroin? The internet connects the disconnected but disconnects the connected, and people are increasingly becoming more connected to the internet, and less connected to their surroundings.....
Mindset & Lifestyle development My energy levels in Eat Code Kite Repeat: Being in alignment with your environment Creating my first MVP Mobile-App isn't easy. It takes a lot of energy and trust in yourself to keep doing it. Creating an MVP takes a lot of mental energy.
Mindset & Lifestyle development Vietnam through my eyes Vietnam is the place where I really learned to do what I want. To go with the flow. To live. I dreamed, committed, and achieved. I had great fun, drank
Mindset & Lifestyle development I don't know or I don't flow The past year I've lived according to a plan of going to a new city every few weeks. I started with backpacking in Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam. Then
Mindset & Lifestyle development Possessions for happiness? If you are a nomadic entrepreneur like me, you can't have much stuff. Lots of people have external things that make them happy, but since your external world is very unstable and constantly changing as a digital nomad, you can't rely too much on
Mindset & Lifestyle development About working offline I put my entire development environment offline so that I can develop my data-driven React Native App while being completely off the map! It's one of my hobbies to be
Mindset & Lifestyle development What is the perfect way to study and work on the move? The coming years I am planning to travel to about 5 to 7 places in the world every year. Of course, this might change, but it's a great way to explore the world so I will do this until I decide otherwise. In this
Mindset & Lifestyle development Cycling through your life part IV - The cycle of the future: towards grown consciousness I have drawn this when I compared life with a bicycle. It's a little strange, this metaphor, but it makes you think! Homo sapiens have a neo-cortex that allows them to reflect before they take action; They are more conscious than animals. In the
Mindset & Lifestyle development Cycling through your life part III: The μCycle Make iterations between improving all aspects and getting feedback as short as possible or ultimately continuous Create a feedback loop. A growth spiral that iterates through creation and feedback as quickly as possible to stimulate learning. Dream to create a goal... Plan to get
Mindset & Lifestyle development Cycling through your life part II - DevOps vs. Marketing in software companies Don't you hate advertisements? Well, I do. I wish we lived in a world without them, but because they are there - very presently nowadays on the internet, as they have become the business model of Facebook, Google and what not - we have
