Last year, my wife and I went on a beautiful trip to Vietnam and Cambodia. We spent over three weeks cruising the Mekong river, visiting the magic temples of Angkor and chilling at the beaches of Southern Cambodia. We were traveling with backpacks but not on a shoestring. We had some stops on our journey […]
Most of us don’t like to talk about money. And even fewer of us like to ask other people for money. However, if you work for a company your increases in income depend directly on your ability to convince your boss to raise your salary. And in most cases that only happens when you ask. […]
Have you ever wanted to learn something new? Have you ever been frustrated by the slow progress of trial and error in a new endeavor? Or have ever been looking for shortcuts to make something work much faster? Then this is for you. What is modeling? Modeling basically means taking someone (or something) as a […]
Whenever I onboard a new employee, there is a document that I walk them through. It is called “Meeting the expectations of Johannes”. This is a process that I learnt when I was a management consultant and it has served me exceptionally well since. Why does it work so well? Because it externalizes something that […]
Recently, I held a presentation about bootstrapping and scaling our app business to six figures in less than 2 years. (Check out my article from last week about the two most important lessons learnt). This week, let me explain how I got to hold this presentation in the first place. It was definitely something I didn’t expect at the […]
Do you feel like you are not getting the important things done in your day? This needs to stop! Few feelings are better than those of getting something really important done and out of the way and moving closer to your goals. Few feelings are worse than those of time slipping through your hands while […]
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T. S. Eliot Do you have big dreams? I hope you do! If you don’t, stop reading this text right now and start thinking about what your audacious goals and dreams are! Come back when you have them ready. […]
I love to listen to podcasts. If you don’t listen to podcasts yet, try the podcasting app on your iPhone or the Stitcher app (which has a much more user friendly interface than the app by Apple). I usually listen to podcasts on my morning runs and during idle time, such as walking to work, […]
