About

Nizzlay is me, Niels. I’m 30-something-old[1] dude from Dordrecht, Netherlands 🇳🇱. Hurray, orange.

Let me introduce myself with a bunch of bulletpoints.

Personality

  • Apparently have a INTJ-A personality, for whatever that’s worth.
  • Try to have indifferent as my default mood. Or “Stoic”, if you want to be trendy about it.
  • Dutch directness applies.
  • Will not go with the consensus, especially if that is the main argument.
  • Will find, and take, the other side of the debate (even if that’s not my own standpoint), just so discussion can happen.
  • Will inconvenience myself (and others) based on principles and technicalities.
  • Wittiness is my kind of humour, smart, thoughtful, sarcastic.[2]

Lifestyle

  • Works from home, and likes it.
  • Will try to stand, or walk, while working[3].
  • Kinda sportsy, even if in my mind former, very sportsy, glory still applies.
    • Doing martial arts in the form of cardio boxing
    • Play with rubber bands in the form of X3
    • Throw some kettlebells around
    • Sometimes I might go for a run
    • Or even an obstacle course.

Core values

In random order (otherwise I would have numbered them):

  • Integrity
  • Freedom
  • Growth
  • Positivity
  • Simplicity

Attitudes

  • Reluctantly using Apple devices[4].
  • Get annoyed with formalities.
  • Do not use a mouse, keyboard shortcuts (and trackpad) FTW.
  • Assumptions are the mother of all fuck-ups.
  • Tweak and optimise.

Activities and Interests

  • Built my first computer when I was 10, before even dial up internet was much of a thing.
  • Been trained by David Allen in Getting Things Done, over a decade ago.
  • DIY, I’ve pretty much rebuilt our entire house[5].

Channels

  • I don’t follow the news.
  • I dislike the overly SEO’ed and AI’ed internet.
  • I will instantly dismiss anything “short”. Doesn’t matter if it’s TikTok, YouTube, or Facebook. It’s just hype, there’s no space for nuance.

Other random stuff

  • Use Colemak (technically mod-DH), instead of QWERTY.
  • My developer skills are pretty Rusty[6]

Demographics

  • Dutch
  • Male
  • 16 September 1988[7]
  • Father of 2
  • Lives in Dordrecht, Netherlands.
  • Currently working as a product manager
  • Previously worked as developer, and project manager
  • Entrepreneurial ambitions

  1. I’m not vain about my age, just can’t be bothered to remember to update this section all the time. ↩

  2. The opposite also applies. I dislike stupidity in humour (such as clowns acting silly) ↩

  3. Working from home, with an office job. Got to get some movement in my day somehow. ↩

  4. The hardware is pretty good, but I’ll rant about the software. Sadly, the alternatives aren’t great. ↩

  5. Removed walls, increased ceiling height, added new walls, redid the electricity, create a new room for the washing machine (which implied cutting a drain into the floor). ↩

  6. Get it? Rust. It’s a language, one that I like. Also, it’s been quite a while since I’ve actually developed anything. ↩

  7. See? Not vain. ↩