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A running notebook of short reflections, links, and longer essays about engineering leadership, product, and work culture. Some posts are imported from LinkedIn, and kept here as a personal archive.

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168

Last updated

Dec 25, 2025

First post

Apr 17, 2012

Topics

7
Sep 18, 2023

Our #hackweek2023 was great to bond, and networ...

Our #hackweek2023 was great to bond, and network (https://lnkd.in/g86X7DFW) - and another side effect for me was to reconnect with my craft (as a software engineer).In the world of continuous …

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Sep 16, 2023

#hackweek2023 - that's a wrap!

#hackweek2023 - that’s a wrap! For one full week, the members of the Engineering, Product and Design teams of SumUp gathered together again, in person, to experiment and create together. 🇧🇬 This …

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Sep 9, 2023

Really looking forward to this! 🥳

Really looking forward to this! 🥳 In a world of working through online tools - I especially enjoy the moment of complicity of working on something together sharing a desk. Organic conversations …

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Aug 22, 2023

Hey, vrienden in Nederland 🇳🇱 - if you want to ...

Hey, vrienden in Nederland 🇳🇱 - if you want to try something that feels like the future give this a try.“Convince your favorite biertje, biterballen or kaastengel dealer to give it a try (or get …

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Aug 6, 2023

If you're looking for your next summer read - m...

If you’re looking for your next summer read - maybe this one catches your eye 👀 (if it goes as it went with me).Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building, by Claire Hughes …

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Aug 2, 2023

If you are looking for a new role (in multiple ...

If you are looking for a new role (in multiple functions: design, backend development, product management…) with growth possibilities (pun intended, see the team name 🫣), cross-functional scope …

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Jul 26, 2023

New podcast announcement 🎙️: This was a quite n...

New podcast announcement 🎙️: This was a quite nice chat with Majbritt an Benjamin about workplace and team culture in distributed teams.I like to think of teams a “distributed” because this applies …

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Jul 18, 2023

This is a sad outcome - although not surprising...

This is a sad outcome - although not surprising given the last developments around the economical viability of VanMoof, and the attempts to gather investment.🚲 I’m proud to have been part of the …

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Jul 15, 2023

Great recap by our David of the results of the ...

Great recap by our David of the results of the work we’ve been putting in the Invoices team. With a multi-disciplinary angle - not only in the functions involved …

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Jun 22, 2023

When someone has gone from zero to hero in cont...

When someone has gone from zero to hero in content creation in the post-chatGPT era, I don’t need zeroGPT to check if it’s AI-generated or not 🙈💡 Remember that whenever you’re …

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