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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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Stack of index cards

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...

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Rather 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....

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Young 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...

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Koop 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...

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Beams 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...

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Objectives 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,...

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Repercussions 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...

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Story 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...

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Mini-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...

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Talking 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...

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Turned 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...

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The 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...

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For 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...

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The 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...

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Real 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...

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Minor 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....

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A 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...

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Quick 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....

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Quick 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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