Wouter Schoofs

Things you think as a first time founder that just ain’t so:

"What if we took 2-3 months to rewrite the whole thing? Start from scratch, fix all the mistakes we know about, and we will have a clean state, all our problems solved." There's a divide between engineers who thought about doing this, and those who did it, and it's a big one.

Yesterday while we discussed my trip to Ghent, my colleague mentioned an art deco pool near Namur that was converted to be the local library. When losing a pool, I think this is het best thing that can happen, Bibliothèque d'Andenne: 📖 lephare-andenne.be/le-phare-histo… 📸 Florent Marot

@kittybonsai cool picture, enjoy the cold

Swimming in Amsterdam ❤️ meeting my cousin at this lovely spot, water 4.2 degrees

The scariest thing to do as a Founder is to put your product out there. We've spent hours, months, maybe even years working on it. It's beautiful. Perfect.

.@Zapfloorhq, a workspace management solution platform, secures €2.1M to develop its tool to change how offices are managed in #Europe and the rest of the world. Know more here: bit.ly/3UGaR2D @LeanSquareBE, @SchoofsWouter, @ThomasCelen #Funding #WorkspaceManagement

When you push the mediocre, they quit When you push the great ones, they step up Tough to get just right

@kittybonsai hè!

Wat een wolken, hè

@kittybonsai enjoy @kittybonsai! I ordered the Sun for your next holiday, so make sure you enjoy for this time every minute of the cool-chill-out weather

Went to the beach this morning, but with fierce wind and waves did not go for a dip

@kittybonsai Een wekker wekt het lichaam, de vogels wekken de ziel K.

Ik ging na het werk lopen en het was nog licht, er was geen regen of wind, en de vogels floten er lustig op los. ❤️

A lot of folks want a map to Staff Engineer, and just as many Staff Engineers want to better understand their role. Towards that end, I'm working on a small project to collect folks' stories of reaching and operating as staff-plus engineers staffeng.com

People don’t just leave managers: they leave shitty oncall rotations as well.

Should software engineers at all levels lead projects? Any experienced managers know they should answer "it depends" for any yes/no questions. My take is that "it depends, but at better companies, they do." A thread on why and when not just tech leads leading works:

@kittybonsai nog niets gezien.

@SchoofsWouter Ja baas, wacht maar tot je mijn verlofaanvragen ziet 😎

Hibernation mode on: Me, on the couch, dreaming about a sunny day near the ocean. Scrolling through some picture from Corsica in 2019 ☀️

@kittybonsai #live #goabroad #youdeserveit