bramdelisse.me

Category: journal

unfiltered streams of consciousness, in written form. when written, they’re not changed anymore.

  • Leven als een kat

    en toch proberen vrienden te hebben.

  • Being more real on LinkedIn

    Recently I have been practicing being more real on LinkedIn. Stating the things that I think, in the language I think them, publicly on the internet.

    I was wondering if LinkedIn is the place for these thoughts? Or if I should keep these for my blog.

    To answer this; what is my purpose of having an active LinkedIn account? (Took me a moment to figure out)

    Right now, I think it is to help me build and maintain an active network that is mission aligned. A network of people that also are working towards a better future for our planet – in whatever big steps they have the health to do so.

    To reach this goal, I believe, it will help to be myself 🌳

    However, there is already so much noise in the world. Especially now we are starting to pump AI generated crap into our society because it generates revenue on the short term.

    If anyone thinks Dembrane is doing this exact thing, I would love to have a conversation with you! It is my biggest fear that Dembrane is doing this – but I am currently confident we are actually helping ensuring the peoples voice stays in our system.

    So I will try to only post if I have the space in my life to say something meaningful. Could be every day, could be once a quarter haha – we’ll see.

  • The lost art of resting

  • Practice Attention

    I’m currently reading Atomic Habits by James Clear. Great book so far! Learned a bunch about habits. I’ll get most out of learning when I practice in parallel to reading the theory. (I remember something from higher education!) This is what I will take as practice case: Being present. Not grabbing to a digital device.

    Grabbing to books are fine for now. Makes sense to take things step by step and first replace a bad habit with a less bad one. At some point however, I hope to never more to ‘grab to’ something to distract myself.

  • 25/05/2025

    Things don’t have to be original. Jon Bellion – WASH (2025) is a new song that I’m thoroughly enjoying right now. It really helps me this weekend. The song is great and original work through the following 3 steps:
    1) it combines many existing elements,
    2) he adds his personality by being open,
    3) he finishes it and makes it publicly accessible.

    Dutch is no longer my first language. English is my first language. I find this difficult and sad. I’m happy I am bilingual now! But I’m sad my first language is a different one then my mother tongue.

    I’m currently disliking eating badly. It doesn’t provide my body with energy; often even removing energy from my body. I just ate 8 vegan bitterballen at a café – that was the most nutritious snack I could find – and I feel meh… for freaking €9,-! For half the money I could’ve got an apple, a nice vegan breaker, and if I was really hungry a power bar. I would have enjoyed that food 140%, spent half the money, and my body would’ve appreciated that choice 205% more.

    It’s a no-brainer.

    But it’s not in culture. That makes it hard to act upon it. Since it’s different acting than the river in which I swim.

  • Wetende dat er thuis een kusje wacht

  • Reflecting With 7 Songs

    Hier volgen 7 verhaaltjes. Allemaal dagboek verhaaltjes over mijn huidige leven – geschreven op precies een liedje. Herken jij het album?…

  • Minder doen

    Ik wil graag minder doen,
    ik heb het namelijk altijd zo druk.

    Door minder te doen wordt ik fysiek gezonder door dat ik meer rust.
    Door minder te doen wordt ik mentaal vrediger sinds ik minder aan mijn hoofd heb.
    Door minder te doen wordt ik een fijner mens aangezien ik meer in het moment kan zijn.
    Door minder te doen wordt ik een betere professional omdat ik mijn werk met meer aandacht kan doen.

    Makkelijk is het niet, minder doen,
    ik wil namelijk zo veel,
    maar ik denk toch echt dat het beter is,
    dus zal ik hard zijn en minder doen.

    Terwijl ik dit denk kom ik Tim en Teea tegen in de stad.

    Ik heb gezegd dat ik graag met Tim een keer graviti wil spuiten,
    en met Teea yoga wil gaan doen.

    Ik wil graag meer doen!

  • I choose to build my website using WordPress

    Hello world 👋

    I’ll be writing my blogs using WordPress from now on. It’s no longer Notion no more… no no, now we are into real website-building-without-actually-coding-the-website-yourself territory.

    For a long time I was afraid of this territory. If I upgraded my website, it had to be build by myself. I studied data-science – I’ve had coding classes! I should be able to build my own website.

    The truth is that I can. But it will take a significant amount of time. Time that I also want to spend on other things.

    Over and over I realise that I have to chose in life. I feel like the older I get, the more I have to chose. This is only logical, since the older I get, the more I am able to do. However, my week has been stagnating at 7x24h.

    Therefore, there is more then ever that I actively have to chose to not do. Chances that I do not take. Academic papers that I do not write. Sport accomplishments I do not achieve. Romantic dates I do not do. Professional adventures I do not take.

    I guess I should be happy with what I did do. Being unhappy about that what not happened sound unpractical, since there are an infinite amount of things that I will not do. That would make me pretty miserable.

    It gives me peace to archive the things that I did do. Things like writing out my thoughts and feeling on this website. It sparks joy 🙂