Notes on building, startups, and operating — by Zowie Langdon.https://eclecticrhetoric.com/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/2024-annual-review-a-small-review/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/2024-annual-review-a-small-review/This year, I hosted a small 2024 reflection group. I had around 8 carefully invited people from founder/tech/academic areas come over, drink tea, and dig deep into what's going on in our lives we like to let go of, understand better, or fuel in 2025.Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/blockchains-role-in-the-global-distribution-of-power/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/blockchains-role-in-the-global-distribution-of-power/Innovations that enable efficient distribution of information or wealth can change the world. Think of the internet and our banking system. I believe the internet enables a constant, gradual change in power structures through stimulating distribution of information.Wed, 13 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/consistency-for-the-ego/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/consistency-for-the-ego/Consistency for consistency's sake is for the ego. It's simple. Consistency for progress' sake is for added value. It's hard.Thu, 03 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/ddos-aanvallen-kieskompas-stemwijzer-verkiezingen/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/ddos-aanvallen-kieskompas-stemwijzer-verkiezingen/Hoe gerichte DDoS aanvallen op Kieskompas de verkiezingen een onverwachte wending gavenThu, 16 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/digest-4-stoicism-developing-no-computer/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/digest-4-stoicism-developing-no-computer/Stoic philosophy, values, engineering without a laptop.Sun, 06 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/happiness-and-trivial-suffering/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/happiness-and-trivial-suffering/If we relate suffering to the effects it has on us, we can clearly see that our response to suffering helps us find meaning in life.Sun, 21 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/good-quote-on-security/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/good-quote-on-security/AviD's Rule of Usability: Security at the expense of usability comes at the expense of security. Taken from: Security StackExchange Very accurate and a good KISS message in there as well :-) Not...Wed, 08 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/het-kieskompas-tk2017-wat-een-aandacht/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/het-kieskompas-tk2017-wat-een-aandacht/DDoS aanvallen Lees hier meer over de DDoS aanvallen op het Kieskompas. Het Kieskompas Zaterdag 11 februari is het Kieskompas voor de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen live gegaan. Kieskompas is een...Sat, 11 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/i-now-help-other-founders/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/i-now-help-other-founders/💡I'm fully booked atm! Advising and building with friends at Ynteq, Diabot, and Reading Rhythms 🧘 I've been connecting a cool group of founders and operators lately through Catalyst. And writing a...Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/autoscaling-ci-runners-on-gitlab-using-gcp/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/autoscaling-ci-runners-on-gitlab-using-gcp/Test runner servers can consume quite some resources, which is rather expensive. But even more problematic is a filled up queue of pipelines that block releases..Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/meaning-and-virtue/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/meaning-and-virtue/Expedient experiences come about by following blind impulse. Meaning follows from its more mature counterpart; intention. Meaning emerges when impulses are regulated, organized, and unified. From...Sun, 29 May 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/meaning/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/meaning/We experience truth, a truth that corresponds to our values and accentuates our own manifestation in this world. Self actualization.Sun, 24 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/playbook-output/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/playbook-output/Building products and startups is like max 40% playbook (certain failure) and 60% unique strategic creativity (a little less certain failure). And those startups are made up of people (and an agent...Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/optimize-django-for-performance/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/optimize-django-for-performance/Django is good stuff. I'm very convinced of that. However, there are always tradeoffs for awesomeness :) In Django, and in my opinion, this is performance. But a part of Django's awesomeness is its...Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/reflection-on-gratitude/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/reflection-on-gratitude/You’re your own tool and life partner. Improving your life and that of others greatly depends on how you develop yourself and the relationship with yourself, and allows you to reach common goals of growing in power, strength and handling and maintaining power well.Thu, 28 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/polertiek/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/polertiek/Polertiek, an app built by Elastique and BNNVARA and using the API of Kieskompas that we've built, has been nominated for the Dutch Interactive Awards! Polertiek Polertiek was an initiative by...Sun, 08 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/relationship-squared/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/relationship-squared/We often find ourselves doomed or graced by our relationship with the world. This is a mental model to help manage relationships with the world.Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/rubber-duck-debugging/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/rubber-duck-debugging/As if you’re explaining the problem to a child (or better yet, an actual rubber duck), go through a situation step by step.Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/service-tech-and-startups/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/service-tech-and-startups/I'm the founder and managing director of the technical startup, Luminum Solutions, and a co-founder/co-developer/partner of two others: Freundlich and Capture Camera. Here, my day-to-day...Thu, 29 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/situational-recalibration/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/situational-recalibration/Remove habits or change behavior by changing the availability of something (fully, or form of) in your life, making room for new things to fill that time or ensuring you create new habits.Mon, 25 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/success-ensues-values/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/success-ensues-values/The Cambridge dictionary describes 'values' as: the principles that help you decide what is right and wrong, and how to act in various situations. Seems pretty important.Sat, 07 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/weekly-info-consumption-1/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/weekly-info-consumption-1/Here’s a small summary of things I consumed recently that were pretty interesting. I listed the cool stuff cause, well, it’s cool, obviously.Sun, 18 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/summary-of-ray-dalios/https://eclecticrhetoric.com/blog/summary-of-ray-dalios/From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8&ab_channel=PrinciplesbyRayDalio I like making summaries, and notes. I figured I can publish some of them. So here's one on a cool macroeconomics...Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT