Keeping busy
- I have started work at Bidfood, a Dutch hospitality wholesale company, part of a bigger international enterprise.
- I have been running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi for a while now. It’s a great open source operating system for my smart home. It makes paid, cloud-based services like IFTTT a thing of my past. Great fun!
- My girlfriend recently moved in with me. 💜 Which still brings enough DIY jobs to do in the house and garden for the time to come, like: a garden shed (for bikes and tools), a sliding wall to separate our sleeping space from the rest of the house and more.
Personal development
- On a bi-weekly basis I am meeting up with my Mastermind group with 2 befriended colleagues. We help keep ourselves and each other accountable for our personal development goals and discuss themes we run into while doing so.
- I am currently reading Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami (one of my favourite authors), The Culture Map by Erin Meyer, Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, The Professional Product Owner by Don McGreal.
Keeping calm & fit
- I started bouldering in 2021 and I love it. I try to do it twice a week and I’ve been climbing up until 6A+ levels.
- I run. After spending most my energy in keeping calm through a crisis and a home renovation, I steadily crawled out of my running slump since 2020. No ambitious plans, but a healthy focus on getting fitter and fitter and running longer and longer distances. After some injuries and COVID (again) end of 2023, I aim to get in marathon form again and to run the Utrechtse Heuvelrug Trail (UHT) at least once. You can follow my progress on Strava.
- I am practicing yin yoga again, after finding an awesome Amsterdam yoga school called Tula Yoga. It’s a great contrasting exercise next to running and bouldering.
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