Technology. Aviation. Endurance. And whisky.

A fascination with craftsmanship, discipline, and continuous improvement connects a diverse set of interests: software development, aviation, endurance sports, and rare whisky.

Builder of SaaS products, Piper SportCruiser pilot, whisky auctioneer, ultrarunner, and dad.

· Endurance

Ergens voorbij de twintigste kilometer

Lange duurlopen zijn waar de moeilijke problemen loskomen. Het eerste uur is van het lichaam; daarna is het hoofd vrij om te keren wat aan het bureau niet lukte. Debuggen werkt hetzelfde: kracht helpt zelden, afstand wel, en wat bovenkomt is meestal niet de oplossing maar de verkeerde aanname eronder.

De cockpit leert de strengere versie. Vlieg eerst het vliegtuig, en in de tijd die dat oplevert laat het juiste probleem zich zien. Hardlopen biedt diezelfde tijd zonder de hoogte, door elke optie weg te nemen behalve geduld. Dat is hier geen deugd maar een techniek, en de techniek die een patch die werkt scheidt van een antwoord dat klopt.

· General

Room for being wrong

Some decisions are only arithmetic, made once the facts are in. The ones that matter come earlier, when waiting for certainty costs more than being wrong. Across flying, ultrarunning, building software, and tasting whisky, the same problem keeps appearing in different clothes: how to act on incomplete information, and how much margin to leave for the gap.

Weather is a probability dressed as a fact; a race is a bet placed hours before it pays out; code that compiles is not code that is correct; a cask is a decision no one tastes for decades. What the four teach is not courage but a better relationship with uncertainty: how much room to keep for being wrong.

· General

My mind is always ahead of the moment

My mind is always ahead of the moment. I notice things before I can explain them — patterns, connections, details that don't sit right. Writing is how I bring order to that. Not to share conclusions, but to make the thought sit still long enough to examine it.

The four domains I move through — code, flight, distance, whisky — all demand decisions with incomplete information and refinement without a clear endpoint. They suit the way my mind works. The cost of noticing everything is that you cannot stop. It is useful. It is also, sometimes, exhausting. But it is the only way I know how to be.

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