Jeroen Sangers

Exploring Baztan 🥾📷

The busier I am, the more time I find for (micro)blogging

I followed @ton’s example and deleted my Slideshare account.

I still have local copies of all documents I had uploaded and I haven’t logged into Slideshare in ages, so this was a no-brained.

With the rollout of iOS 14 and Safari 14, most web sites are going to see some significant shifts in their statistics.

After four hours, I guess it’s time to stop procrastinating and do something productive…

This is what the outside world sees… 🎞

… and this is what’s really happening… 🎬

It is clear that today wil not be a good day to record new videos.

Thanks to a mention in the latest edition of the newsletter by @rahego I went into a deep dive in old 43 Folders posts.

Still great content after all these years…

Is this turned on?:

Or is this turned on?:

IFTTT should improve their usability a little bit.

Back to nature 🚶‍♂️⛰

Wise words from James Clear in his newsletter:

Avoid calendar debt. Don’t spend (free) time you haven’t earned.

A meeting is like a loan: it is time you haven’t earned yet. This is not necessarily a bad thing, since sometimes the inversion is worth it. Just be aware of this fact whenever you make a time-commitment.

The unexpected consequence of too much communication at work:

More than ever before, we’re using technology to connect with the outside world. And with so many of us now working from home, we’re relying on our phones to stay updated with colleagues and clients. However, when you’re receiving endless Zoom calls and emails, pings on Slack, and notifications from everywhere else, it begins to hinder productivity and focus.

Unexpected? Only if you’re not used to mindful communication.

I followed Roel’s instructions to personalize the colors on this site a little bit.

As usual, also on micro.blog I somehow ended up following way more men than women.

Therefore I call upon my community: which female microbloggers do you recommend me?

My main interests:

• Personal effectiveness ✅
• Hiking 🥾
• Technology (, web services)
• Rock music 🤘
• Personal development 📈
• Beer 🍺

So true…

Life is slower on paper, and that’s a good thing!

This is powerful advice:

Shout-out to @RyanHVaughn for posting some of the most useful advice I’ve seen on r/startupshttps://t.co/DNW1mqI3a1 pic.twitter.com/FmJKUWyEeI

— Brian Wang (@brianmwang) September 5, 2020

Have → Do → Be or Be → Do → Have?

Oura now supports Sleep Sharing!

Therefore, simply because I can (and not because it is of interest to you) this is how my last night went:

Frank Meeuwsen is de laatste dagen Hypothesis aan het testen. Ik volg zijn bevindingen met interesse, want ik geloof dat er toekomst zit in social notetaking.

In deze post schrijft Frank dat de RSS feed nog geen link naar de originele pagina bevat.

Als lezer van Franks blog, mis ik ook de mogelijkheid om naar de originele pagina te gaan vanaf de Hypothesis notes pagina, bijvoorbeeld om deze op mijn eigen blog te delen. De enige manier die ik gevonden heb is de URL in de browser handmatig te wijzigen.

@rahego: ¿Y tú qué mides?

Una de las razones por que me gusta micro.blog es que puedes ver cuántos seguidores tienes.

In preparation of the migration of this site from WordPress to micro.blog, today I finished reviewing all post I published here since 1996.

Lost in translation:

Seth on dates:

One of the most expensive things a service business or freelancer can do is promise that work will be done by a certain day. Which is something we need to do, of course, but we should charge appropriately. “It’ll be done soon,” should be way cheaper than, “It’ll be done at exactly 11 am on Tuesday.” And one of the most important things we can do to focus our energy and commitment is be prepared to promise a date certain. It sharpens everything.

Seth nailed the essence of a Zoom meeting:

The purpose of a meeting is not to fill the allocated slot on the Google calendar invite. The purpose is to communicate an idea and the emotions that go with it, and to find out what’s missing via engaged conversation.

Twenty years after the introduction of the €, I still receive invoices mentioning the equivalent amount in Pesetas.