(In)efficiency rocks

Maybe the headline is a bit controversial, but let me try to explain what I mean. Oftentimes I see products that are super efficient in who they are targeted towards. You can see from the product and the words being used to tell about it that the team behind has been guided by a very… Continue reading (In)efficiency rocks

The living room clinic

Have you ever tried going to a hospital for a consultation on something only to end up feeling it was a bit of a waste of time? I certainly have. While I have the utmost respect for doctors, I find the format of a 20 minute chat that in essence can ruin an entire day… Continue reading The living room clinic

Roadmap of experiments

When trying to understand a problem, it's potential solutions and what you should build in the end, it is so easy to loose the big picture of what you're doing and how that translates down to experiment by experiment that moves your product closer to something desirable. But it doesn't have to be that way.… Continue reading Roadmap of experiments

Mindmapping rules

I have become a big fan of mindmapping. And specially the application SimpleMind Pro for Mac. When you have a lot of ideas, keeping a hold of them can be super tricky. This is exactly where mindmapping comes in handy; with the right application if allows you to structure your thoughts at more or less… Continue reading Mindmapping rules

Corona thoughts, part 7

When we discuss the future of (remote) work, we should not only discuss the various digital tools that enable this but also the foundation for it all to work: Great, stable connectivity. At the start of the lockdown, I finally got our household on the new fiber connection, I ordered almost a year ago. Before… Continue reading Corona thoughts, part 7

Powering up Slack

It is no secret that I have found falling in love with Slack very challenging. Perhaps it is my Microsoft-past with Outlook and (yes) Clippy (and yes, there is a full documentary on YouTube about that one) that haunts me, but I have found the channel setup and the various direct messages threads challenging. Not… Continue reading Powering up Slack