Here we are, a brand new blog. Some old content, some new content planned. After a year of using LinkedIn for blogging, I have decided I want to take it one step further and bundle some more stuff on here.

This has various reasons:

1. I get to keep better control over where my content ends up - if LinkedIn changes its business model, that’s not on me.

2. I do believe that a fragmented internet with easily accessible and searchable content is what the internet should be. I am very fond of the ‘minimal computing’ idea¹. A personal website/blog better fits this bill than a linkedin blog.

3. As LinkedIn is a professional platform, my posts there are limited to professional observations - mostly in the field of funds & crypto law. On this blog, I want to take it a bit further. I want to write on things I find interesting even if they do not fall within this narrow professional field. I want to be able to explore new ideas by writing about them. I want to write about my journey back into coding, AI and maybe even cycling. This blog not only allows me to do that without taking the aimed focus of my linkedin blog way, it also allows me to better organise and tag these posts, so they can be retrieved easier. See above, point 2.

There is still some work to do (in addition to adding more content, of course). I am not yet fully happy about the lay-out. I will add share buttons. And the categorisation/tagging system is not yet fully optimal. But then, after having worked on this project for a while, I didn’t want perfect to be the enemy of good.

So, there we go, my own personal blog/website.