Category Archives: daily

As an entrepreneur I try to be prepared for an uncertain, and often ‘dangerous’ future. If I would have invented the airplane, I would definitely also have designed the parachute. I’m optimistic, but I consider all possibilities, the challenge in all of this is not to worry to much.   It may well rain tomorrow, […]

Building something is always challenging, the goal in this process should always be to innovate and to make something people want. Bernard Arnault of LVMH (world largest, successfully luxury good company) shared his vision behind the success of the company and the creative process: I don’t have alarm bells when it comes to creativity. If […]

An unusual, exciting, and possibly dangerous activity, such as a trip or experience, or the excitement produced by such an activity. I don’t see work separated from my personal life. Our pay-off at MOIJ is ‘We design your adventure’ is basically a reminder of how we would like to approach life. How we spend our […]

While I have a nice breakfast in the restaurant of my hotel, named: Benedict, which serves breakfast 24/7 my legs feel a bit tired of the 16k of yesterday.  I finished my second week of training, creating a streak.  Seth Godin has a great blog post about doing something every day:  Streaks are their own […]

This morning started with a great run Running for me is great escape, a habit to stay balanced. Building a company is hard, because you experience a lot of failures. As Fred Wilson shared in his newsletter: You take a lot of losses as a founder, particularly in the early days. Investors pass on your […]

After a very warm week in Torino I’m back in Milano. I was fortunate enough to call this my office. Last week sketch launched a new update, it seems pretty solid. But I’m not switching back. I love Figma. It’s super easy to make a prototype, and since it’s available in the browser it’s super […]

While I Grab my iPad I’m amazed by the fact that we now can work from anywhere we would like, maybe not in every profession yet, but in most we do. This is not something that I take for granted. This form of freedom motivates me a lot. Not only to keep this alive for […]

While meeting new people, one of the first questions people always ask is: What do you do? This seems like a simple question, but it’s getting harder and harder for me to answer. The simple answer is that I’m an entrepreneur, but that is something I fill in for getting a visa. For as long […]

While I find myself listening to more music lately, I did listen to some interesting conversations last week. I prefer a long conversation while listening to a podcast; I think this is what makes the medium unique. Naval (founder of Angellist) is publishing some short recordings lately. Most of them are 5 min long. They […]