Merry Christmass everybody. I hope you’re all enjoying this time of the year with family, friends and a lot of good food.
Merry Christmas…
Category: Life in general
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.
Free time is a wrong concept
Lately, I’ve noticed that I have less and less free time. That got me thinking of all the tasks on my to-do list and how they fall into two categories: the ones I have to do and the ones I want to do.
How free is free software
After watching Hadi Hariri’s Where’s my free lunch? talk, I got to think about a number of things friends said about the cost of software. Free is everywhere these days, but secretly everything is paid for although not always with cash.
New horizons over at Egemin
After more than 3 years working consultancy at Realdolmen, I spent my last working day there on 31st of December 2016. Realdolmen was a very good employer and gave me great opportunities to learn and grow. Unfortunately, that also means that opportunities present themselves that are just too good to pass up.
Do I know or did I just take a decision
A while ago, the team asked who took the decision to use a certain pattern on how a custom configuration was implemented. As that happened weeks or even months ago, nobody could remember taking that decision. That got me thinking about when I take a decision versus when I know something for certain.
People are more aggressive lately
It surprises me how impatient and aggressive people are these days. I noticed several incidents in the past few weeks and wanted to talk about them.
