Product and Technology enthusiast
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I’m collecting 52 songs in 52 weeks. Every Friday, I add a song to my playlist. With the chosen music, I try to capture my energy and feelings for that particular Friday.
Week 23/52: Eric Clapton – Forever Man
After 52 weeks, I will have recorded all the seasons, holidays, and high and low weeks of the year in this playlist on Apple Music. Don’t use Apple Music? Subscribe to weekly updates via RSS.
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Het tweede boek dat ik las in de Erika Foster serie viel tegen. Dit boek kwam veel te traag op gang en ook de clue van het verhaal vond ik teveel een open deur. Ik ga het derde verhaal in de serie nog een kans geven. Wanneer ook dat boek tegenvalt stop ik met deze crime reeks.
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I’m collecting 52 songs in 52 weeks. Every Friday, I add a song to my playlist. With the chosen music, I try to capture my energy and feelings of that particular Friday.
Week 22/52: Helene Fischer – Atemlos durch die Nacht
After 52 weeks, I will have recorded all the seasons, holidays, and high and low weeks of the year in this playlist on Apple Music. Don’t use Apple Music? Subscribe to weekly updates via RSS.
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This morning, I completed my third run of the week and my last run of the month due to our annual skiing holiday starting tomorrow. I was disappointed with myself for not being able to run farther or faster this month than I had to date. Then I thought, why don’t I compare my 2025 January and February running results with last year’s? And so I did.
| Jan ’24 | Jan ’25 | Feb ’24 | Feb ’25 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs | 12 | 18 | 4 | 13 |
| Avg. Pace | 6:08 | 5:52 | 6:25 | 6:11 |
| Time | 8:09:25 | 9:43:58 | 3:55:45 | 8:26:16 |
My log showed me that I am progressing and will come out better this winter season than ever before.
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AI will not replace you, but people who use AI will.
I captured this quote from one of the speakers at our annual ReThink conference in Zürich last week. While it’s short and simple, I believe it holds a lot of truth. AI assistants will increase productivity massively, and because of this, the people who know best how to use such assistance and agents will have a considerable advantage over others.
I recently had a virtual interview with a candidate who captured my audio and passed my questions on to an agent who helped him answer them better. While I was initially amazed and somewhat opinionated, it also made me think positively about the candidate and how future-ready he was by applying new technology as it became available.
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I get asked regularly for advice on product and technology books worth reading. While this is all quite personal, there are a few books that I would advise any Product Manager or Product leader to read. Here are six of them in random order:
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I’m collecting 52 songs in 52 weeks. Every Friday, I add a song to my playlist. With the chosen music, I try to capture my energy and feelings of that particular Friday.
Week 21/52: The Paper Kites – Bloom
After 52 weeks, I will have recorded all the seasons, holidays, and high and low weeks of the year in this playlist on Apple Music. Don’t use Apple Music? Subscribe to weekly updates via RSS.
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I completed a fun 20-minute Fartlek exercise this morning. The run was intense because my digital running coach called out the different paces by surprise and did not share how long the pace should be run. I was exhausted after 20 minutes. I was surprised to see in my data that I increased my max heart rate today with 8 bpm to 196 bpm. My average bpm during this run was 160 bpm.
🔥 5-minute warm-up
👟 20-minute Fartlek exercise
❄️ 5-minute cool-down
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I’m collecting 52 songs in 52 weeks. Every Friday, I add a song to my playlist. With the chosen music, I try to capture my energy and feelings of that particular Friday.
Week 20/52: Faithless – Insomnia
After 52 weeks, I will have recorded all the seasons, holidays, high and low weeks of the year in this playlist on Apple Music. Don’t use Apple Music? Subscribe to weekly updates via RSS.
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Deel vijf in de Blix en Ramm serie viel een beetje tegen ten opzichte van de eerdere boeken. Desalniettemin is deze serie echt de moeite waard wanneer je van Scandinavische thrillers houdt.
Ik las de boeken over Blix en Ramm in de afgelopen zes weken in volgorde. De verhalen zijn ook afzonderlijk van elkaar te lezen, maar wanneer je ze in volgorde leest, zul je meer van de personages en hun onderlinge dynamiek begrijpen. De latere verhalen komen namelijk regelmatig terug op gebeurtenissen uit het verleden / eerdere boeken.