Camiel Schoonens

Product and Technology enthusiast

Camiel Schoonens

MDiT for 20260215

·

[My Day in Three](https://schoonens.social/categories/mdit/) for today:

1. I [ran for the second time this week](https://camiel.schoonens.nl/2026/run-log-20260215/) and I’m carefully hoping that I’m on the other side of recovering from my injury.
2. We visited the friends we are going to join during our summer holiday in [Costa Rica](https://camiel.schoonens.nl/category/travel/costa-rica/). They live very close to the forest, where we enjoyed a nice, long walk with their dog.
3. Together with our friends and our combined group of five children, we watched a 500-meter women’s speed skating race today. It was an awesome race, with the Dutch winning both a gold and a silver medal.

Run Log 20260215

·

After weeks of dealing with an injury in my right leg and right butt cheek, I finally managed to get outside and complete a run again. I’m still being very careful, making sure I don’t overstretch anything and risk getting injured again. This was my second run of the week, following a treadmill session on Tuesday. I covered 5.35 kilometers in 32:59, with an average pace of 6:10 per kilometer.

A list of silly things I don’t appreciate

·

Following up on this post from Andrea Contino, which appeared in my RSS feed last week, here is my list of 10 “first-world problems” I don’t appreciate.

  1. People who don’t close a door after walking through it.
  2. A dual-monitor setup where the monitors are connected vertically and aren’t horizontally aligned.
  3. People who call on a speakerphone in public.
  4. People who misbehave toward public servants and hospitally personel.
  5. LinkedIn, the place where everyone has the best job/employer ever until they sign up for their next job. It’s one big show-your-ego network.
  6. People who show up late.
  7. Audio messages instead of a text message.
  8. A desk that isn’t properly organized.
  9. PowerPoint presentations where the slide content isn’t aligned to the grid and where consistency is missing from slide to slide. You’ll lose my attention right away.
  10. Emails from non-native English speakers that are full of em dashes (—). I know within a second that you didn’t write the response yourself.

MDiT for 20260214

·

[My Day in Three](https://schoonens.social/categories/mdit/) for today:

1. I worked a little on my [/about](https://camiel.schoonens.nl/about/) page in the afternoon.
2. I’m tired after working 6 days last week. I recovered on the couch by watching the men’s 500m speed skating. The race between Jenning de Boo 🥈 and Jordan Stolz 🥇 was epic.
3. The kids aren’t home tonight, so my wife and I cooked together, enjoyed a nice glass of wine, and had more than enough time to catch up on everything I missed at home last week.

MDiT for 20260213

·

[My Day in Three](https://schoonens.social/categories/mdit/) for today:

1. 🛫 Prague – Amsterdam 🛬
2. I worked all morning on my email while traveling back home. Catching up on a week’s worth of email has never been fun, but it does make you feel productive.
3. Once I got home, I didn’t do anything anymore except spend time with my family and have a drink with friends to celebrate the start of the weekend.

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”