Podcasts, beer, ramen…

• Week of 15-21 April.
• Monday, walked to the office, dev catch up, had a Beyond Burger (vegan) at Scheckters Raw – not bad.
• Tuesday, creative writing, work, gym, swim, sauna, sunset podcast promenade walk, watched some videos about Salt.
• We launched a survey for a new project idea. Data is looking pretty good.
• Wednesday, office, dev meeting, breakfast for lunch at Knead, data centre migration admin, a beer at The Mojo Market, steak dinner at Carne on Kloof with Adrian and Georg with malbeck and tiramisu – time well spent.
• Thursday, meeting at Bootleggers, office, kimchi, ramen and beer, after-work beers at the office, nap, watched a video about IPv6 address planning over IPv6.
• An IPv6 site, /48, has 281 trillion internets of address space.
• Friday, public holiday, creative writing, gym, sauna, chicken lunch with some bubbly and deep nerding, sunset walk, watched The Intouchables again.
• I kinda live between the office and the gym. Snow globe is getting a bit small again.
• I uninstalled Java from my laptop. Good riddance to bad rubbish. I also removed Flash.
• My podcast app says I’ve listened 1155 hours of podcasts.
• Genius is: being stubborn, unreasonable, and lucky.
• Somehow I worked out that I stared 3x R1B+ companies, I figure my hit rate is 5/20. The big lesson, which, let’s be honest, I fucked up, is that value building is a ten year game. The VCs are right 20 bets. I think I can still manage 10/20. Eternal optimist.
• Find a scene. A nerdy scene. As Brian Eno likes to say: Scenius.
• Become obsessed with something.
• Joe’s MO: Telecoms. Startups. Collecting nerds.
• Code and media: products with no marginal cost of replication. Permissionless leverage. Recurring revenue models, scale effects and network effects.
• I installed a DNSSEC plugin for Firefox this week, seems very few places use DNSSEC.
• Saturday, lazy day, deep nerding, nap, afternoon walk, salad at Mykonos Taverna, watched Passengers – good movie.
• I wrote a little business plan for the new podcast app idea: a2d2, actually 6 docs, was supposed to be a quick hack, ended up taking two weeks. Oh well, fun experiment.
• Sunday, more deep nerding, backups, brunch at La Vie, general tinkering on side projects, windy sunset podcast promenade walk.

Have a fun week, crazy kids.

BLah…

• Week of 8-14 April.
• Monday, tea, work, big round of backups – 70GB, late afternoon gym, Green Point Park walk, long phone chat with Jacques, sunset podcast promenade walk.
• Nothing changes, if nothing changes.
• Tuesday, walked to the office, Sababa lunch, bratwurst and sauerkraut in the Gardens Centre, a beer at Nick’s house.
• Go look for trouble and serendipity.
• It’s important to find important things to do. Important things choose you. — JP
• Wednesday, work, gym, swim, sauna, office, dev meeting, early dinner at El Burro with Adrian – we chatted startups, apps and venture builders.
• 2nd rule of startups: find network effects.
• Network before capital.
• Thursday, work, court visit, brunch at Fred & Max with Dirk – plotting something interesting, hair cut at Yogi’s, work, promenade walk, some Wagner and Shostakovich at the Town Hall with Georg.
• I always liked playing Civilization, in real life.
• 3 bets. 70:20:10 time allocation. Current, new, long shots.
• Friday, office, dev catch up, after work beers at work, promenade walk, watched some videos about Salt and Salt-proxy minions.
• I really don’t like loud people.
• Saturday, set up a salt-proxy to manage my home router – just for fun – it’s pretty snappy, gym, sunset podcast promenade walk, had a beer with Wouter, migrated some photos.
• Sunday, tea, more tea and general tinkering, backups, the classic rotisserie chicken and avo lunch, I was short on photos for the week, so I took a sunset podcast promenade walk.
• Tune of the week: Anna Begins.

Have a fun week, crazy kids.

Belgian beer hangover…

• Week of 1-6 April.
• Monday, walked to the office, Sabada lunch, pancake, tea with Michael, tinkered at La Vie.
• Listen to the Tim Ferriss interview with Neil Gaiman. Design your own Groundhog day.
• Tuesday, work, backups, gym, swim, sauna, Strolla.
• Stake in outcome vs perks of rank. The incentives always win.
• Manage complexity. Articulate well. Keep motivation.
• Wednesday, walked to the office, dev meeting, breakfast for lunch at Knead, watched Alan speak at Startup Grind, La Parada with Georg and Nick, mussels at Den Anker, time well spent.
• Science before engineering.
• I’ve been drinking more tea and avoiding coffee. Lady Grey tea.
• I don’t remember having to process information at this rate 10 years ago? News, podcasts, learning.

• “Each day we demand more from society, so we can demand less from ourselves.”

• Thursday, Teraco visit – the new cabinet is looking good, MMR visit, office, Van Hunks with Anton, dinner at Anton’s.
• Wrote a mini business plan for a new idea in the back of an Uber.
• Friday, work, Bootleggers, La Vie, big monthly backup while taking a nap, Dennis’ birthday dinner at Beluga, a drink at Van Hunks with Georg and Anton, en bed early.
• Saturday, slept fairly late and played with a few side project ideas, ventured to the shops to get antihistamine – seasonal change I guess, promenade walk, nap, creative writing, IPv6 tinkering.
• I like Ben Shapiro, listen to his interview with Andrew Yang.
• Sunday, tea, creative writing, more IPv6 tinkering, Clifton 1st with Georg and Dan, dinner at the Mojo Market, time well spent.
• Watch: Philosophy of Pessimism

Have a fun week, crazy kids.