Category: blog

Setting up your own VPN with Streisand Effect These days having a VPN is a very smart choice you can do. Either you work on a public space, in your office or any foreign country you are travelling. You can never be sure...
Features vs Quality During the early stages of a company the focus is to move fast. It's a matter of survival. The founders have probably left some lofty careers, the money is limited and the...
László Moholy-Nagy, the first modern designer? Recently I was on a trip to New York. One of my first destinations was the Museum of Modern Art, and for a good reason. The MoMA is one of the best museums I've even been...
The problem with outsourcing Today British Airways was all over the news. Fortunately no airplane tragedy happened. Unfortunately an IT tragedy happened. Specifically all systems went down worldwide due...
Cultural fit is killing your company. Hiring for diversity. Back in the early 90s a group of experts, led by sociologist James Baron looked through various companies and followed them until the dot com crash in the dawn for the 21st...
Feedback vs Noise Noise /nɔɪz/ A sound, especially one that is loud or unpleasant or that causes disturbance. Lately I've been thinking a lot about the concept of feedback. Specifically when...
Empathy at work, lessons from the army Back in 2008 I was serving in the Greek army. It was a dull and boring period of my life, but not without learnings. During one of these dull mornings, i was sent by my major...
Macbook Pro 2016, one month review tl;dr: Buy it if you have a laptop before 2015, don't buy it if you have last years Macbook Pro. Also there are cheaper alternatives if you can't justify the steep price...
Measuring your value

Transition

There are certain types of work out there that you can visibly measure the work you did. When you are writing code you can measure the lines of code you wrote, or if you are...

Working with (data) driven and talented people For the past 10 years of my career i’ve been extremely lucky as I worked with some very talented people. In several occasions i felt inspired by the talent my colleagues...