Every so now and then a picture comes by, usually on social media like Instagram, tagged 'no filter'. An expression of pure photography, of a real presentation of life as we experience it and of good …

One of the biggest hinderances in reading articles on my iPhone has always been that it is a hassle to capture notes on what I read. This led to a lot of articles read without the knowledge retained w…

It was in the final days before my first Ultra run that I noticed a strange question popping up briefly in my mind: "What if I will make it?". It was a fear that surprised me.

49km to go to reach my yearly running goal. The thought crept in my mind: that is completed when running one Ultra... What if I just did it?It didn't let me go. I couldn't shake it off. 

I started off the year 2020 proclaiming it to be my best year ever. And even with all the turmoil going on in the world this year (COVID-19) I have been right about that: it definitely has been my bes…

One of my goals this year is to run a marathon distance. My ultimate goal for this year is to run an ultra distance of at least 50km. While building up my training schedule and researching lots o…

Mindset and beliefs are closely tied together. I have been thinking and reading a bit about that lately and will try to summarize some of the lessons I deem valuable to remember at this point in my li…

Last year was a good running year for me. Also I made some mistakes in the process of completing the 1136 kilometers the statistics are showing (yeah, I am proud of that accomplishment!). In reflectio…

Over the course of the last few weeks I've had several conversations about how I structure my days to make them productive and feel good about what I've accomplished. Here my thoughts about it!

This week I came across a facebook post with an image attached to it reading "Are you listening to understand or are you listening to reply?" It stuck with me for the remainder of the week popping up …

Currently I have 5 articles in progress. Today I was determined to finish one. After several attempts to finish up one article I gave up and decided to write about exactly this: writing can be hard!

One of the things I am interested in a lot is growth. Growth as a human being, as a person in all the roles I fulfil in my life: father, husband, friend, runner, developer etc. Investing in myself is …

Talking with a friend of mine who just picked up coding again, I searched for a getting started tutorial on working with `git`.Found a great overview which you can consume in just a couple of minutes:…

Due to a bug in a Neos related package I ended up with a bunch of orphaned nodes in a production database. Not nice - especially since it has just been Fathers-day - and also those nodes without a par…

In dutch the saying 'I think therefore I am' from Descartes translates to something like 'I think therefore I exist'.Speaking with someone the other day about being stuck in your head while your stoma…

Every time I remembered the coming deadlines I switched gear: I couldn't change anything about it even if I wanted to...

A week into working less —actually 2 weeks when this article gets to see the light of day— I have seen some remarkable results of that one simple decision.If you just rather jump to a summary of the b…

Huh? You might wonder what I am talking about... Ab-normal hours? What is ab-normal hours? Were you working normal hours before? What the heck are you trying to communicate?Well — let me try to answer…