One year ago the bathroom scale confronted me. As a twin dad and a busy Engineering Manager, I slept too little, I barely exercised, and ate unhealthy. As a result, my weight was the highest…
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Today I want to share a pivotal moment in the career of a freshly graduated junior developer. Rand’s writing prompts inspired this post. Every week he sends out a few writing prompts. The following prompt…
Welcome to 2024! I dislike New Year’s resolutions. I do like setting goals. Goals give me clarity on where I need to spend my efforts. In 2024 I want to keep developing myself. Health, family,…
When reflecting on 2023 it caught me by surprise how many things happened. The recency bias makes me forget everything that happened early in the year. From a work perspective, it was an interesting year.…
Somewhere in the dark months of 2018 after a long day of work. On the international train from Berlin, between Deventer and Apeldoorn I came up with an idea for a blog post. I’ve tried…
I’m currently in the middle of a department-wide reorganization. Teams will change their engineers and scopes, all to better fit our strategic goals. All teams will be impacted and will have a substantial impact on…
At the beginning of 2023, I set goals to become more consistent with my writing. For a while, this went great. At least one blog post per week, and one newsletter per month. But I…
On March 1st, 2022 I started as an engineering manager. In this blog post, I’m going to retrospect my first year as an engineering manager. What did I learn, what mistakes did I make, and…
In previous posts, I shared my opinion on new years resolutions. Any day of the year should be fine to start working on your goals and habits. The day you start does not have to…
A long time ago, before I finished my degree in computer science. And even longer before I became an engineering manager. I studied to be a sysadmin/web developer at a vocational college (MBO for Dutch-speaking…
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