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Ai projects and exhibition bingo

Are you flooded with Ai opportunities? I am. When I’m not demoing my latest finds for friends, I’m getting demos. This is the technological wave we’ve been...

January 2, 2025

Every year I write a long post about all the thoughts and events I’ve gone through. You can find it here. I also add some of my favourite media (read The...

Learning from founders

September 27, 2024

I’ve been rushing for the past few weeks. Busy shipping, not doing busy work. It feels wonderful, but my energy is still low now. Time to take a break over...

More YouTube more insight

September 6, 2024

I’ve been trying to balance client work with exploring my own projects. It is much harder than I would have thought. My best work seems to happen when I know...

Updates, new project, new YouTube channel, and new posts

August 24, 2024

I’m currently helping three startups with random improvements. Some design, some speeding up their shipping. Still have some availability, but don’t want to...

Did you know belief is stronger than genes?

Turns out that what you believe you can do, is a stronger indicator of performance than genes. If that statement doesn’t blow your mind, read it again. I...

Don't kill your motivation

I’ve thought a lot about incentives and motivation over the years. Since I got my start in game design, until recently reading Poor Charlies almanac, it’s...

Progress and advice

I’m making good progress on Find Insight, my ai survey tool that helps companies talk to users. I also came across this great list of advice for founders,...

Did you learn anything actionable about your customer last week?

Did you learn anything actionable about your customer last week? Why not? If you aren’t learning from your customer, your competition probably is. But to do...

Did you know you there are things you can't hack?

We just passed the midpoint of the year. Does it feel like you’ve made 50% of the progress you want out of 2024? In some ways it does for me, in other ways...

How I learned to be strategic

I don’t claim to have become ultimately strategic. Only that this insight helped me use strategies more often in my day to day life. How I learned to be...

Creating or Consuming today?

I was at the first ever Local First conference in Berlin last week. It was a very interesting gathering of people, and since I’ve been following CRDTs since...

Weddings, wine games and books

I went to a wedding at the Algarve coast of Portugal. The nature is beautiful, but the tourism is not. Which lead me to start thinking about why tourist...

Things I did in my 30s

I turned 40. It wasn’t pretty. But here we are. You can read about things I did in my 30s. I also started making a Wine Guide / Quiz app with an AI backend....

Did you know stress is fun?

I'm turning 40 tomorrow. I'm not sure how I feel about that. But I'm in Lisbon enjoying the sun and will celebrate with a few fantastic people. I'm building...

Do you act on inspiration of long term plans?

February 11, 2024

This newsletter shared what I learn, usually every other week. Got feedback? Just respond. Want to unsubscribe? I'll understand. Now let's get to it. I...

Did you know update

November 12, 2023

Experimenting with a new format. Instead of an essay, I'm sharing my entrepreneurial progress and what I've published and read in the past week. Is it more...

Do you know when a skill is required?

October 28, 2023

I've been travelling, enjoying my friend Thord's daily mindfulness consideration, and trying to stay productive. How do you stay productive when you travel?...

Do you know how to use an eisenhower matrix?

October 6, 2023

This is how I use the Eisenhower matrix Every day I wake up to a long list of todos. More than I could ever do. So how do you not just freeze, overwhelmed by...

Did you know about personal kanbans?

September 30, 2023

In my experiment to ship faster by focusing on the basics, I've come across a classic task management technique I've always loved: the kanban. What is a...

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