Intensity vs consistency
/Instead of going for the rush of intensity, go for the boringness of consistency!
Instead of going for the rush of intensity, go for the boringness of consistency!
A while ago I was watching Mr. Robot. There's this great scene where Elliot (played by Rami Malek) is talking to himself and asks a very interesting question:
I remember when I was a kid, I got into web design by ripping off sites I liked. All you had to do was view source on your browser and there it was, the code. You could copy-paste it, modify it a little, put your name on it, and like that, it was your site. View source. What if we had that for people? Would people really want to see?
The goal of this blog was to post more things that interest me (hello 9 month hiatus đź‘‹), improve my thinking process and write in English.
But the title is just too good in Dutch to leave it out. In English it would translate into something like:
As expected, everything turns out different
At the end of 2016 I had a pretty good idea of what 2017 would have in store for me: the biggest personal project being our wedding (it was beyond awesome!). Work related I had a rebuild project of one of Elision’s oldest clients and had a pretty good idea of where I would like to go with my career within the company.
I didn’t have any other big goals in mind and would see where 2017 would take me. So far, 2017 is a year full of great surprises!
These things “just happened”:
I’m not entirely sure what’s different this year, but I guess I’m saying “yes” to even more stuff than I used to. This is creating awesome new opportunities.
A bit unexpected, I got in touch with the wonderful people at madewithlove. After talking and meeting with Andreas and his colleagues, it became clear that I shouldn’t let this opportunity slip. As of 16 August, I will join their team as a Product Manager! I’m super excited about this!
2017, I love you already, let’s make the rest of this year awesome as well!
I've had this screenshot on my desktop since 1 April 2016. It's taken from the Momentum extension for Chrome. Each day, it gives you another image and quote when you open a new tab.
Last Friday I was talking to one of my best friends about how people seem to behave differently when you change job titles. Why is that? It's just a title, the person behind the title is still the same one you talked to yesterday. Yes, responsibilities might change and in a hierarchical organisation (yuk!) your relationship might change. But those aren't good reasons to behave in another way than you did before.
I take pride in being the same person day in, day out. I'm no different at work, than I am with family, friends, clients, strangers,... What you see is what you get! ;-)
To me this seems like the only way to stay true to your values and be authentic.
I like to hang out with people that:
Next time you see me failing on any one of these, tell me, otherwise I'm not the kind of person I'd like to meet.
So how about you? What kind of person do you like meeting?
On Tuesday I went to the Hasselt Lean Coffee Meetup at the Corda Bar (Hasselt). It proved to be a great evening with some smart people.
It's a nice way to connect with likeminded people and discuss topics in your field.
From the Lean Coffee website:
Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking. Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated.
The next Hasselt Lean Coffee will be held on Tuesday 6 December 2016 - 19h00 at the Corda Bar (Hasselt). If you want to join, make sure to RSVP on meetup.com
Thanks Wim Bollen and Tim Pijpops for organizing these meetups, I'm definitely attending again.
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