Or what did I learn from crashing my motorcycle in 5 easy steps — TL;DR: I bought a trail bike because of a commercial I saw for a completely different bike, I took offroad classes, I felt and I dropped the 240 kgs bike on my foot. But I’m okay and happy with the experience. Keep reading for the long version! Step 1 —falling victim to #marketing — Hi everyone…

Youtube knowledge at your fingertips :) — The best way to stop being a noob is to acknowledge you are one and take steps to better yourself. When it comes to riding motorcycles, I am a noob. Uncool as that may sound. But I am getting treatment. Sort of. With COVID restrictions in full swing, is difficult…

TL;DR: we still suck! As a species… — Day “I can’t even remember” of “what seems like forever”. The pandemic rages on, uncontested. It feels there’s no end in sight. Each piece of good news is followed almost instantly by a bad one. Like we’re caught in a weird, extremely repetitive dance: one step forward, one step back…

Other than how to ride a motorcycle, that is! — Last year I passed my A2 exam and got myself a bike. It was a bumpy ride, especially given that it was a pandemic year, with lockdown and delays, but I managed to push through. Getting the license and buying a bike was an impulse decision: one day I decided…

2021. The year of redemption! The year in which I will do all the things that I wanted to but I couldn’t in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course, those are the very same things that I have wanted to do for the past 3 pandemic-free decades. You…

I did my fair share of interviewing in my time. So I should be good at it. Practice makes perfect, right? The more we do something, the better we get at it. Or at least, that’s the theory. In practice, I’m still finding it quite difficult to interview someone. The…

I enjoy reading quotes from famous thinkers from time to time. It’s like accessing concentrated wisdom, packed in a couple of phrases. Without any boring details. One either gets it or doesn’t. They’re like puzzles of the mind, just showing the focal point and allowing me to fill in the…

Talk to the engineers in your organization — I feel I did enough recruiter bashing in my two previous “letters to (tech) recruiters”: A letter to (tech) recruiters and A letter to (tech) recruiters 2.0 to try something else. Pointing out other people’s mistakes is easy. And fun. I must admit. I had my laughs writing it. Coming…

The COVID-19 pandemic took us by storm and fundamentally changed the way we interact: social distancing, face masks, sanitizing gels, and of course, remote working. In the last 3 months, more companies went fully remote than in the last 10 years. Years of digitalization work have been done in weeks…