October 27, 2024

Photographer and still an IT dude. I live in Heiloo, 35 km north-north-west of Amsterdam.

I just finished reading Looking for Alaska (the book) by John Green.

I just came back from a short trip to Bucharest. We are planning my next trip to either Uzbekistan or Hong Kong and probably Korea or Japan in 2025 (the final destination depends on where our son ends up doing his masters).

Sometimes, I do not Photograph. But I usually take pictures of what is in front of me, and I get in front of Punk bands for that, too.

I love doing things myself and being independent. I am very skeptical about Big Tech. I am very interested in what Cory Doctorow, Waag, and Bits of Freedom have to say on this topic with great interest.

Derek Sivers: Now page and also

Personal non-commercial websites are an antidote to the spammy corporate web.

I think the future of the internet is the curated internet. Yahoo started as a directory and got killed by Google. Google search, Facebook, and Instagram these “platforms” have killed themselves. For non-commercial, neutral content, we move back to a directory-like internet. Curation is a task for all of us.