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(in Dutch)

"His life was plagued with notoriety. He was in court in one of his numerous lawsuits when the bailiff held out the Bible and asked him his name. He responded, Frank Lloyd Wright, world's greatest architect. When he returned home, his wife Olgivanna said, Frank, the man was simply asking your name. He replied, but I was under oath."

> The worktree system removed the friction of context-switching - juggling multiple streams of work without them colliding.

I'm so conflicted about this. On the one hand I love the buzz of feeling so productive and working on many different threads. On the other hand my brain gets so fried, and I think this is a big contributor.

I'm building Vivino, but for Chocolate bars. App is called Chof, currently in test phase, and submitting for app store approval this week. Scanning, saving, rating bars that you find.

I got to a pretty stable scanning flow using Gemini 3 flash.

Walking, and Writing on Substack

Currently; > Main goals: Improving my writing and finding some people with similar interests Writing about my current walking season that I'm in, combined with reflections during the walking, recently about walking around the island of Menorca, and Aloneness:

>> https://felipevanbeetz.substack.com/p/build-some-capacity-to...

Thinking about starting another Substack: > Main goal: Audience growth Called something like: "Walk more", "Walk intentionally", "Move intentionally", "How to walk more" About: Short, (bi)Weekly, Practical tips/inspiration, to Move (and specifically Walk) more and more intentionally.

I'm super curious about how far Dexcom and Abbott's research departments are with developing these technologies. It could be a (partial) disruption for them.

Also - flashback to Rockley Photonics ($RKLY) - and their years-long promise of non-invasive glucose monitoring.

"Dumb electronics" will be hot - iPods/MP3players, dumbphones, e-ink screens/phones/readers, film cameras.

"Dumb electronics" - iPods/MP3players, dumbphones, e-ink screens/phones/readers, film cameras.

> Shopify finds it useful to talk about the difference between main quests and side quests internally. The main quest of the company is its mission, the reason for the company to exist. Side quests are everything else.

The main quest / side quest analogy works so so well!