Please note that I moved my weblog. If you currently pick up my rss feed, make sure you change the feed's address to: http://marcsmessages.typepad.com/msm/index.rdf. Also when you're used to receive my updates by e-mail you have to give in this new address on the RSS-FWD site, which means resubscribe.
I'm committed to improve my effectiveness and efficiency this year, developing a more healthy and sustainable pace of life and work. Therefore I will stop blogging as I've been doing over the past six years and move into moblogging, short for mobile blogging, or blogging sms-style. This means no long, intelligent reflections on life, but really short logs on what I'm up to. This will keep friends, supporters and colleagues enough in the loop of what I'm doing, with the possibility to contact me if they want to speak in or join, but frees me up from producing content (or engaging in discussions) that I don't have too much inspiration for at the moment.
PLEASE NOTE: If you link to my new blog Marc's Short Messages, then make sure you point to the main domain: http://marcsmessages.typepad.com. If you pick up my RSS feed, make sure you change the feed's address to: http://marcsmessages.typepad.com/msm/index.rdf.
In the mornings The Van der Woude brothers wake up early to play some their favorite games.
A fresh start of the year: I just unsubscribed from over 50 newsletters that only fill my inbox, but don't produce any real value, either for myself, my projects or for Joel News. Also I will promptly unsubscribe from any freshly arriving news or marketing e-mail that I didn't sign up for in the first place. The Pareto principle (80% of the outputs result from 20% of the inputs) can be applied to many areas of life, but is certainly valid in the realm of e-mail. For Joel News the ratio is even 99:1, because only 1% of the news I hear or receive makes it into Joel News, and this 1% comes from 20% of my sources and connections. A good reason to get rid of the 80% of newsletters that are only eating mailbox space and handling time.
A beautiful and quite rare Winter day in Holland. I took my son Peter for a walk and a pancake. More pictures here.
