My wife is getting more and more responsibility at work. She handles a number of high profile cases, she’s following a course to become the company’s Data Protection Officer for the upcoming GDPR legislation and is the all around go-to-girl for any problem around the office. This leads her to think about asking for a raise. Unfortunately, she has no clue how to go about this as she’s never asked for a raise before.
Category: Life in general
Using others’ reputation
This week, a consultancy company tweeted something along the lines of “Thanks for following us @bonny_ken”. They mentioned others as well, but in this tweet, I was mentioned specifically. I do not follow them, I’m not affiliated with them and I feel like this is an unhealthy way to establish their reputation.
Smart and dumb systems are becoming indistinguishable
In the first week of 2018, I got surprised by a smart system, that looked like a dumb system. Unfortunately, it scratched my car in the process.
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The love of my life
Me and my wife have been together for almost 7 years now, 3 of which we are married. I’d like to dedicate this post to my beautiful and loving wife.
And a happy new year!
May your code ever compile and contain no bugs.
Merry Christmas…
Merry Christmass everybody. I hope you’re all enjoying this time of the year with family, friends and a lot of good food.
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Past weekend I was going to be productive, I was going to write a blog post, I was going to learn some new technology or pattern. Then my wife, my life and Divinity: Original Sin 2 got in the way.
Sudden success
I don’t regularly check how many readers I have and I was baffled by the sudden increase in popularity. This is a thank you post to all my readers.
Common goals instead of individual
Common goals bring us closer together whereas individual goals drive division.
Separate bank accounts
I read Scott Hanselmans post about allowance for adults. Me and my wife have separate bank accounts and one shared account. It affords us more freedom.