Always crashing in the same ship
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week I launched this website! I’d been working on the new version, on and off, for the last year or so, and now...
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With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. After having had to be secretive about it for months, I can now announce that I will be at TEDxDelft next month. The...
View ArticleRather mellow
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week, work on the Geometry Girl app book started back up, as I tinkered with screens and buttons with Saskia....
View ArticleYoung enough to feel old on the internet
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week marked an anniversary: on Saturday, April 2, it was 20 years ago that I started my first website. It was...
View ArticleKoop Daniels (1948-2016)
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. I was attending an awards ceremony on Thursday when I got a text from my wife, telling me my father-in-law had just...
View ArticleBeams of sunlight
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. That was a weird week. An emotional rollercoaster, as they say. My wife was away to prepare my father-in-law’s...
View ArticleObjectives and key results
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week I decided to switch from my (still relatively new) monthly planning system to something more akin to OKR,...
View ArticleRepercussions for the symbol
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. With the deadline coming up, last week I focused on getting all of the story and dialog in RIVE, the...
View ArticleStory deadline rush
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. First of all, let me throw in the announcement trailer of Antegods, the ‘stonepunk arena action’ game I’m working on...
View ArticleMini-croquettes
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Once again, last week was centered on finishing shooter/platformer RIVE’s story. I spent three days at Two Tribes...
View ArticleTalking about conversations
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week on Thursday night, I visited Info.nl in Amsterdam for the quarterly Behavior Design AMS event, where I...
View ArticleTurned 36
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week I spent all of Tuesday at the Dutch Foundation for Literature, for a new round of grant requests in the...
View ArticleThe final finally
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week I finally pushed out my year-old Hanna Bervoets interview as part of the Hybrid Writer’s Podcast. The one...
View ArticleFor the foreseeable future
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week the video of my TEDxDelft talk was published, nearly two months after the event. Other than some heavy...
View ArticleThe silhouette of this project’s horizon
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week the first public Geometry Girl prototype continued to take shape, as Maurice was outdoing himself in the...
View ArticleReal people
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Well, last week, the plan came together! The entire team’d worked hard to finish the first public prototype of...
View ArticleMinor Kondo
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week I hit another deadline: I visited Two Tribes twice, finishing the second batch of RIVE voice-over lines....
View ArticleA couple hundred tiny details
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week, the second batch of RIVE recordings came in, meaning our shooting/platforming game can now be played...
View ArticleQuick holiday notes, part 1
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. I haven’t gone on vacation yet, but am getting a lot done so I can comfortably leave a couple of days from now....
View ArticleQuick holiday notes, part 2
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Well, I’m on vacation now, and I just noticed I’d nearly forgotten to post my notes for the previous week. So here...
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