2023 November Yet another month has passed and it’s time to recap what I’ve been doing! Monthly principle 🌟 Write meeting notes, documentations, questions, answers, etc. in public searchable spaces. This is something I have seen an increasing need for in my daily work life, you can read more about why in my blogpost Value of transparent notes. Finances 💰 My networth increased by 12.5% in November! Both crypty and stocks are even more up. ...
Transparent notes The value of notes and action items are undisputed. If you leave a meeting without any action items or notes, did you really have a meeting? I think not. The second layer of value comes from collaboration on the notes. Sharing your notes with colleagues allows them to also benefit from the notes. This is a very important step in building a strong resilient team. It also allows for a more open and transparent culture. ...
2023 October October, my birthday month 🎉 is over and it’s time to recap what I’ve been doing! Monthly principle “Never start a chat with ‘Hi’.” “Reduce use of this and that, be clear and consise.” “Include full context in chat/email messages.” This months principles is about making communication more effective. As a friend of me wrote on hos blog timharek.no/blog/no-hello, starting a chat with “Hi” and then waiting for an answer, is a waste of time. It’s better to just write the question you want to send right away and let the recipient answer when they have time. ...
2023 September Yet another month is over and it’s time to recap what I’ve been up to! Looking back on the month I am unsure what I have done haha, so it’s nice to check the calendar and Daylio. I watched Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back in Grieghallen with live orcestra, that was nice! And I also attended an alternative concert at the Griegacademy with modernistic classic music, that was also nice! Then I attended Kakkmaddafakka concert, despite the name they do not play punk music, they play excellent pop music. ...
2023 August Whosh August went fast! I’ve been super busy doing something every weekend and day! I had a lovely weekend trip to Copenhagen, a super nice city where you can bike everywhere and eat delicious food. And of course there is a nice night life as well. I would especially mention the freetown Christiania, the “lawless” area inside Copenhagen. This area naturally attracts organised crime as you will easily see if you visit the main street and “Pusher’s street” where they sell weed and other drugs openly with large signs. It was nice to sit in a caffe, drink a beer and see all the sellers run away when the police arrived to do a razzia. We were told that the police perform razzias 1-3 times a day, so it’s just another normal day where maybe one of the sellers get 3 months of jail time. The funny part of it is observing that everything was business as usual, 10 minutes after the police left. But Christiania is a very nice place to walk around in, it’s fascinating to see the homes people have built and think about how they manage rules, property ownership etc in a lawless town within Copenhagen. ...
2023 July July has been a nice month with vacationing and hanging out with friends. I have also finally been able to work on personal projects again, which is great. Finances July was pretty good and overall my net worth excluding my apartment increased by around 5%. I am still a fan of last month decision to sell all my index funds and buy forex secured index fund. To track the difference in performance I purchased a small amount in the similar index fund but not secured. So far the secured fund has increased by 2.8% while the not secured has increased by 1.9%. Pretty decent extra ROI. ...
2023 June Last recap was a pleasure to write, so I will continue with the same format. Just writing something makes me more creative and writing more, I got to write my MacOS setup and have more ideas coming up. Finances June and end of june was a pretty mediocre with a small increase in the markets. I moved all the crypto I had in the Polygon network into Firi, to make it simpler to track my crypto. I have also sold all my index funds and bought “Storebrand Global Indeks Valutasikret N”. This fund is supposed to remove the risk of currency fluctations, which I think is a good idea now as the norwegian krone is very weak against the dollar and euro. Let’s say the NOK increase 10% in value. Then my index funds would have decreased by 10% because almost all of the funds are invested in foreign currency. ...
2023 may I have been inspired by some of the other blogs I follow to start writing a monthly recap of what I have been up to. Some of the excellent blogs I read: Tim Hårek Tom Mac Wright Pengeblogg Sindre Kjelsrud I have not decided on the format yet but I have always wanted to write about the following topics: Finances Work Personal projects Recap from my Daylio app Finances I have been tracking spendings and net worth since mid 2018 and it’s very interesting to see how much money I spend on for example beer. I have a Google sheet where I import bank statements every 3-4 month and manually mark the transactions with a category. In the future I would like to automate this with some fancy classification, either on the text or with fancy machine learning. I would also like to automate import of transactions using the banks API, using the amazing free service GoCardless (previously Nordigen) which enables API access to thousands of banks in EU. ...