Yordi - A Lifelong Journey of Growth
Yordi - A Lifelong Journey of Growth
Yordi
My name is Yordi Verkroost, a computer science teacher and athletics coach.
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After a bit more than ten years into my professional life, I've reached the stage where I can quite confidently say what works and what doesn't. Or at least I think I can. Or at least I can tell what usually works for myself, which might...
Last week my washing machine broke down. I've had it for almost 10 years now, and I actually have no idea if that's a normal age for a device like this to stop working. It presented me with an error code related to water damage somewhere...
Last week I ran more than 50 kilometers, separated over five days. I also spend an evening doing weight- and circuit training, bringing the total of "active days" to six. I'm not writing this to boast about this achievement, but about a...
After winning the yearly club cross country run, life goes on. And so do my runs, albeit a little slower than usual today. This Sunday's session was in the dunes. Part of the training was running up a sandy hill that's actually a horse...
Today was the yearly club cross race: a 4K-ish parcours on and around our club's running track to figure out who becomes the club champion in their category. And would you believe it... I won! Or well, at least I won against the other...
The first part of a new calendar year marks the moment my software development students go on their internships. It's the last semester of their education and the first time they're fully exposed to the real, professional world, outside...
As a teacher in the world of Software Development, AI is a given. It's something that cannot be ignored. And it's something that provides opportunities as well, both for my students and for myself. Therefore I'm continuously looking for...
Sometimes when writing a blog post, you need many words and examples to drive your point home. Because without them, nobody would understand. But sometimes, you don't, and you can let the music and its message speak for itself. Like today.
Over the past couple of weeks, I took my first steps into owning more of the media I consume. Like my music, for which I've gone back to buy it in physical form. The grander goal of this is to become less dependent on the "big tech...
Museums are wonderful places. I think it's very cool how artists manage to translate abstract, complex themes into real spaces and objects. As a visitor, you don't require knowledge about the topic to get a sense of the artist's mind,...
This spring I am on vacation in a city I have never visited before. A chance to immerse myself in a different culture, a different pace, during a few days in which nothing is required. And that last part is quite important to me. No...
In this world of endless streaming, we own nothing anymore. Nothing. Our digital music library, so carefully curated over the years, is nothing more than fairy dust blowing somewhere through the cloud. The movies we so dearly love are...
The other day I went to the hairdresser to get my hair back in shape. After the man asked me if I wanted anything to drink (no, I just want you to cut my hair), he began his job. As you do when you're just sitting there with nowhere to...
Over the past few weeks, I dove head-first into the YouTube rabbit hole of the analog life, the personal cloud, less dependency on big tech companies, and more of the like. I've devoured video after video about the topic, which might...
I've never been much of a classical music fan. As a kid, I always thought it was boring, slow and above all just a big piece of old crap. I could never imagine listening to sounds like that when I had my own great sounds of the 90s. But...