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My Day in Three for today:

1. I’ve been thinking about further optimizing my home energy use by adding a battery to store the energy generated by my solar panels. I considered creating a business case to model this setup, but instead I found this Home Assistant plugin that simulates the presence of a battery in my home and uses the actual energy produced and consumed to calculate the savings.
2. I exchanged cars with a friend so he can use our bigger family car to drive to Austria tomorrow to go skiing (again).
3. Tonights sixth episode of Wie is de Mol (NL) was a good one.

My Day in Three for today:

1. I started my last working day of the week in the gym to compensate for the late hours and lack of movement this week. I worked out for a little over an hour and enjoyed it.
2. I didn’t have a lot of meetings to attend today which gave some time to work with one of my product leaders on our product strategy. I enjoyed the time spend and the content we produced.
3. I went out to see Joe Speedboot (IMDB) tonight. Joe Speedboot is a celebrated 2005 novel by Dutch author Tommy Wieringa about a kinetic young visionary transforming life in a small town. Known for its humor, fast pace, and themes of friendship and invention, the book has sold over 300,000 copies. This is one of my favorite books.

My Day in Three for today:

1. I woke up very early to say goodbye to my daughter, who went on a school field trip to Lille, France today. I should have gone to the gym, but instead, I decided to go to the office because I have too much work to finish before the weekend.
2. I was introduced to and demoed an Agentic Development LifeCycle (ADLC) by some of our lead software developers today. They combined the roles of product owner, developer, and UX designer into three agents that turned a query from me into a complete working prototype within five minutes. Wow!
3. My son had his high school prom tonight. As parents, we were invited to watch all the graduates enter the venue. A friend of my son managed to arrange for a 1963 Ford Galaxie as their ride to the red carpet.

My Day in Three for today:

1. Again, a long and energizing day at work today. I enjoyed connecting with my colleagues from Australia early in the morning and checking out with the team in the US early and evening. There is a lot going on right now and it’s important for me to stay (virtually) close to my team.
2. I started reading and learning more about Costa Rica in preparation of our upcoming vacation.
3. Watched ‘Het verhaal over Nederland in oorlogstijd’ (Dutch) to relax from work.

My Day in Three for today:

1. I talked about budgets for most of the day. Not my favorite topic, but it comes with the job.
2. There was a surprise gift in the kitchen when I got home today. It was from our friends with whom we are traveling to Costa Rica this summer. To prepare for the trip they send us a beautiful magazine about Costa Rica.
3. Reading tip for today (NRC, in Dutch, no paywall) about the war in the middle-east: Trump heeft in Iran alleen nog slechte opties en daarvoor ‘zullen we allemaal een prijs betalen’.