Thoughts about the intersection of gaming and entrepeneurship ... It's been more than 15 years since I last actively played PC games. Back in the days it was all about Diablo (I/II), Warcraft (I/II/III), and Starcraft for me. When my classmates socialized in the physical world after school, I would just hang out with my guild in the World of…
Recently I have read Give and Take: A revolutionary approach to Success by Adam Grant. It is an inspiring book and I found myself taking too many notes while reading it. Now I want to summarize my learnings, to internalize them, but also to give others access to it. In his book, Adam Grant dives deep into the spectrum of altruistic to selfish…
"A state of flow can be achieved by deep work". The subjects flow and deep work are covered in the books Deep Work by Cal Newport and Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. I read both books, personally I can say that they are outstanding, and they can be well combined when it comes to satisfaction in a person's life. The following article summarizes my…
As a software engineer you will come to a point where writing matters. Perhaps you want to leave your fellow developers a note, you have to write an e-mail to a customer or you have to sum up the recent meeting notes. In my case, it went even further because I have my own website where I write about software development and where I started to…
