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About Geffrey van der Bos

Headshot of a man with light skin, high forehead, and eyes with friendly laughter lines. He has short hair and a short bronze beard with a large mustache. He is wearing a black crew-neck sweater against a dark gray background.

Designer helping people navigate financial stress at Stichting NSR. Privacy-conscious, plain-text advocate and allergic to vendor lock-in. Husband to Illustrator Julia; guardian of Loki the Shiba Inu. Obsessed with extreme music and music science.

GitHub @geffrey@id.geff.re

The trap of writing for someone else instead of for yourself.

It happened.

I was feeling down that an essay didn’t get a lot of views. But why did I even care?!

When I was asked my thoughts on the topic, I was able to clearly communicate what I thought. It just rolled off the tongue. As if I had contemplated it for a long time—which I did!

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Essays