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My must-have Chrome extensions
As many transitions into remote work, let's share resources that help productivity. 1Password – Stores passwords. Better than LastPass!AdBlock –...
Hiring a car in Bali
On holiday you want as little friction as possible. Yesterday I wrote about the unwritten traffic rules in Bali and that they remove a lot of...
The Unwritten Bali Traffic Rules
Last week I was on holiday in Bali, Indonesia. The traffic there looks chaotic and dangerous. There seems to be a lot of friction. But when you...
Auto Dark Mode
💡Tip: Do you prefer automatic switching of Dark and Light mode 🌓? I work from home. My desk is positioned in front of a big wall of glass that has a...
Ninety percent of the friction
Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by the wrong tone of voice.— Arnold Bennett The sound of the message is itself a message that...
The last minute
Yesterday, the following quote hit a nerve with me, as a person who sometimes suffers from procrastination. This is the quote from Seth Godin (the...
Why you don’t need more projects
After 15 years of taking over other .NET developer their solutions, one thing that always flabbergasts me is... All the reasons why they have...
10 new features in Power Automate
Here are 10 new features in Power Automate that you may be missed. Power Automate is growing fast and these are the things that have caught my...
Hourly billing hates Productivity
Why hourly billing isn't working anymore. It hates productivity. There is no incentive to improve it. Suppose we define increasing productivity:...
Listening accomplishes more than speaking
Listening accomplishes more than speaking I see people falling into the same trap every time. I still even fall for it sometimes. They start talking...
Focus on what actually matters
I drink at least 4 cups of coffee☕I'll watch a lot of YouTube and Netflix 🍿I am still working on my procrastination ⌛I wake up late 🛌I’m not taking...
Job-hopping: Don’t
Yesterday I posted about the best way to increase your salary as a consultant. How? By switching jobs! Sad but true. I explained about when you...
Job-hopping: Do it
This might be the best way to increase your salary as a consultant. I hired people, did salary negotiation, gave yearly pay raises, but I never give...
The three important values in a live partner
I'm now over 40 years and was thinking about the qualities I look for in a partner to grow old with. For me, the three most important values for a...
Emails received a Power Up
Have you sent emails with a snapshot of the status that you wished for would always show the latest status instead of a snapshot of the time the...
Kindle is a life changer
Kindle is a life changer for me! It removed the friction of reading for me.
I like to read books, but somehow, I never can find the time to read them. I always had excuses. Most of the time I read books when I am on holiday.

Remy van Duijkeren
The Marketing Developer
I build automation and integrations that remove the annoying stuff—using Power Platform, Dynamics 365 & Azure.
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