Unfortunately there was no API with data on which intersections have traffic lights and I had to build these routes manually in Strava using satellite images.

I did learn in the process that some traffic light data is actually available from the government, but only for selected partners. The Flitsmeister app for example has it and shows at some traffic lights how long it will take for the light to turn green (in a car, not on a bicycle)

- everyone has so much process to "hire right", but in his books he hired kinda random it seems. And seems to delegate a lot rather than "founder mode"

- the original remote worker: bought a caribbean island for cheap and managed his businesses from there

- random collections of businesses under his brand: airline, telecom, music, ...

was he just like super lucky that everything worked out for him?

Something definitely changed, or it’s somehow reading all that data over and over again

I do understand where he’s coming from. One of my forms of procrastination is reading my old notes and pondering and pretending I’m self-improving. But it’s actually a way to avoid action.

And I did learn that if you want to get somewhere, action is what gets you there. Not endless introspection.

I’m older than 32 now

But maybe soon we will not even realise we speak to a robot, given the current speed of ai development.

I wonder how that will erode trust in calls. I moved from cold emailing and cold LinkedIn to cold calling because of the massive amounts of ai spam I have to compete with. But maybe cold calling will die soon as well if the robots emerge.

I think the answer is, it's both.

When I was an employee sometimes I was happy, like when a promotion was lurking, and sometimes I was unhappy and stressed, when getting fired, when facing deadlines, ....

But when I started working for myself the amplitude of emotions became way stronger, every week I would fluctuate between feeling doomed forever or feeling like a genius.

Life with and without kids is the same: The emotional highs of having kids are way higher than anything I experienced without kids, but sometimes the lows are very low.

I’ve learned a long time ago that we’re not always aware of how incentives drive our own behavior, it just happens naturally. This is exactly what’s happening with housing.

Our goal shouldn’t be to be coal free. Our goal should be to be 100% renewable.

If we set up our goals in terms of what we don’t want, we end up in the situation we are right now: high energy costs, very dependent on energy imports and a high risk of loosing our industry

It seems they are targeted as a proxy for the people who drive them, which are generally younger people.

Maybe every year we should ban the car brands with most accidents. Kinda the same idea?

Flying was having its golden age around the times of Concorde and 747, coffee bars were great when Starbucks reinvented the 3rd place and social media was cool when it just came out

It very much relates to that Steve Jobs clip about what happens when the marketing people take over the company

At least with Cursor or Claude Code I had an idea of what happened to the code. But it seems I don't need to see the code after all.