Pieter de leenheer

Nationality — French Age — 32 Top Product(s) — ShipFa.st Current MRR — ~$141K
Today, I want to share with you the inspiring story of Marc Lou, a 32-year-old French entrepreneur who is one of the highest grossing Indie Hackers with a super smart product.
Marc’s journey began when he graduated from Université de Technologie de Troyes. He began his career as a full-stack developer and started a couple of ventures. After facing a series of failures and setbacks, including being fired by Tai Lopez in November 2021, Marc discovered the build-in-public community on Twitter, which changed his life.
In just under three years, Marc launched an impressive 21 products, grew his newsletter to 20,000+ readers, amassed a Twitter following of 95,000, and reached an astounding $141,000 per month in revenue with a 91% margin.
Marc’s entrepreneurial journey was not without its challenges. It took him two years to make his first dollar online, and he even grew a SaaS to $3,000 MRR before feeling like a failure after four years of hard work. Depression set in, causing him to quit entrepreneurship temporarily.
However, after being fired by Tai Lopez, Marc found inspiration in his role models on Twitter, such as Pieter Levels and Danny Postma. These solopreneurs were working on their projects from anywhere in the world, enjoying the freedom and financial success that Marc craved.
Living in Bali with his Korean wife and $20,000 in the bank, Marc set out to build his own path to freedom. He started with a simple project called Mood2Movie, a movie recommendation app based on the user’s mood. This project kickstarted his build-in-public journey, and he continued to launch projects for fun, learning valuable skills along the way.
In August 2022, Marc went all-in on his gamified habit tracker, Habits Garden, which was making ~$200/month. He utilized side-project marketing, launching free tools to promote his paid product, and created engaging launch videos that went viral. By January 2023, Habits Garden had reached 10,000 users.
Marc continued to ship startups like a madman, applying new rules: no free plans, only painkiller products, and moving on quickly if there was no product-market fit. In July 2023, he was making ~$3,000/month.
A turning point came when Marc realized he needed to build a business for customers he truly cared about. He sold his AI landing page generator for $35,000 and his habit tracker for $10,000, giving him the time and clarity to focus on products he would use himself.
On September 1st 2023, Marc launched ShipFast, a NextJS boilerplate to help others ship startups quickly. To his surprise, ShipFast made $40,000 by the end of the month, and as of April 2024, it is at an impressive run rate of $133K.
Marc’s success has bought him peace of mind and the ability to speak to a broader audience. However, his life hasn’t changed dramatically. He still surfs, writes, and codes every day, finding happiness in creating rather than consuming..
I hope Marc’s journey inspires you as much as it has inspired me. Remember, your path to success may be unique, but consistency and perseverance are the key!
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Hoi!
Sinds een week zit ik in een huurwoning met een pieter peuterig keukentje, waar nog geen kookplaat in zit. Er is geen gas aansluiting, maar wel een perilex aansluiting, dus ik ben aan het kijken naar inductiekookplaten.
Nu is het aanbod losstaande inductieplaten voor perilex erg beperkt dus wil ik graag een inbouw plaat. En daarnaast zijn de losstaande platen bijna net zo duur als een inbouw plaat incl. montage.
Nu is het probleem dat ik bang ben dat ik de nis niet diep genoeg kan maken (er is dus nog geen nis). Situatie: ik heb een heel standaard keukenblokje waar ik niks mee mag doen van de verhuurder, en in het verlengde daarvan heeft de vorige huurder een houten aanrechtblad gemaakt. Waar precies een koelkast en wasmachine onder passen. In dit blad wil ik graag de inbouwkookplaat plaatsen, want ik heb geen andere ruimte in de keuken. De koelkast en wasmachine kunnen (helaas) nergens anders staan.
Het aanrechtblad is 2.9cm dik en de ruimte van bovenkant aanrechtblad tot bovenkant koelkast is krap aan 5cm. De 'dunste' inductieplaat die ik kan vinden is 4.9 cm dik, waarvan 0.5cm boven het blad uitsteekt. Als het allemaal past dan betekent dat, dat er maar 0.5cm zit tussen de onderkant van de plaat en de bovenkant van de koelkast (of wasmachine, ligt eraan waar ik de plaat plaats). De overige ruimtes om de plaat/nis heen zijn wel breed genoeg.
Is dit diep genoeg? Of is dat slecht voor de plaat en/of koelkast? ik kan niet terugvinden of mijn koelkast tegen hitte kan (een tip van coolblue, die dus niet helpt). Ik heb echt twee linkerhanden dus kom er totaal niet uit. De handleiding van de kookplaat die ik op het oog heb maakt me niet veel wijzer en het internet ook niet.
kookplaat&utm_id=google_ads_17294146316&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwgJyyBhCGARIsAK8LVLMiyy-I7n7KWk50P0KeoIve5saB2j2VCMKRDtskcCWnYNsys9Iq9xsaAoOsEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds)
Heeft iemand advies?! Of moet ik toch maar voor vrijstaand gaan.

Envy and Help Giving, Part 1
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2020-62974-001.pdf
One of envy’s instantiations is to increase, not decrease, dependence to keep someone down as a manifestation of malicious envy. They are actively disabled and kept dependent on purpose if their independence is especially aggravating to the envier’s self-esteem.
In this research, we explored and demonstrated a relatively implicit and covert means of undermining envied targets—namely, helping them in a way that retains their future dependence, rather than in a way that increases their autonomy.
Unfavorable social comparisons trigger envy in those who make the person about themselves (social comparison) instead of admire (just seeing them, for the period of admiration).
In the current research, we focused on unfavorable, upward social comparisons, which are comparisons individuals make with others whom they perceive as superior to themselves. These upward social comparisons often trigger envy. Envy is among the most powerful emotional forces of human nature.
Envy is based in lack circuitry, namely not having something. This is slightly different than fear of loss circuitry, so it is less about pathways of addiction which implies possession of the addicting substance and another about unmet desire.
In addition to being conceptualized as a dispositional trait, envy also is defined as a situationally driven emotion—namely, as a state that occurs “when a person lacks another’s superior quality, achievement, or possession, and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it” (Parrott & Smith, 1993, p. 906)
Malicious envy entails hostile feelings, thoughts and actions aimed at harming the envied other
According to the first account, malicious and benign envy vary not only in consequences but also in feelings and thoughts, with malicious envy entailing hostile feelings, thoughts, and action tendencies aimed at harming the envied other and benign envy entailing feelings, thoughts, and action tendencies aimed at improving the outcome of the envious person (van de Ven, Zeelenberg, & Pieters, 2009)
Painful feeling of envy instigates malicious motivations
We primarily focused on help-giving behaviors, and we examined and demonstrated the notion that to the extent that the painful feeling of envy toward an upward social comparison target instigates malicious motivations, it impedes helping behaviors and particularly affects the type of help that is provided to the envied target.
Envious people belittle, deceive, victimize, sabotage and undermine those they envy. All around, it shows dehumanization of the envied.
For example, envious people have been found to belittle those they envy (Salovey & Rodin, 1984; Vecchio, 1995); experience schadenfreude, that is, take pleasure in their suffering (Lange et al., 2018; R. H. Smith et al., 1996; van de Ven et al., 2015); deceive them; victimize them; sabotage their outcomes; and socially undermine them (Duffy, Ganster, & Pagon, 2002; Duffy et al., 2012; Gino & Pierce, 2009; Jensen, Patel, & Raver, 2014; E. Kim & Glomb, 2014; Moran & Schweitzer, 2008; Salovey & Rodin, 1984; Silver & Sabini, 1978; R. H. Smith & Kim, 2007; Vecchio, 1995).
Increasing future dependence is seen as a way of covertly undermining envied target from engaging in behaviors that aggravate envy.
We add to this literature by exploring and demonstrating a relatively implicit and covert means of undermining maliciously envied targets— namely, helping them in a way that retains their future dependence, rather than in a way that increases their autonomy.
When family or friends do not feel that their envy is acceptable, they will engage in covert rather than overt actions that they think will not allow them to go detected as participating in behind the scenes antisocial behavior against the envied
Consequently, we postulated that following upward envy-evoking social comparisons, people who encounter malicious motivations may opt to vent these motivations by using subtle and implicit means to undermine their envied targets (Jensen et al., 2014), especially in contexts in which individuals are generally expected to help and cooperate with each other (e.g., among friends, family, colleagues in the workplace, or members of the same team). In the present research, we used the context of teams to explore such potential subtle undermining and malicious consequences of envy.
Envy is strongly associated with a threat to one’s self-esteem (Tesser, 1988) and is predominantly evoked when the comparison target is otherwise similar and when the comparison domain is self-relevant (Feather, 1989, 1991; Parrott & Smith, 1993; Salovey & Rodin, 1984; R. H. Smith, 1991; Tesser & Collins, 1988; Vecchio, 1995, 2000)
In teams that are expected to work together, teammates in envy of other team members will maximize covert means of undermining
Moreover, given that teammates are typically expected to cooperate and coordinate with each other (Holland, Gaston, & Gomes, 2000), we postulated that when working in teams, envious people may be particularly prone to vent their malicious motivations by using covert means to undermine their envied peers
The fear of being envied leads to people increasing a prosocial interaction style. This can look like “And we couldn’t have done it without you” in donations style language or the trick some have been told of when someone is jealous ask them to help you to get them accustomed to feeling on your side. Seeking dependency implies incompetence to the envier, which lessens their feelings of inferiority. This study discounted gender, but interestingly this behavior is exactly what women are told to do when men are being aggressive towards them, implying that what the men may be feeling may indeed be envy for these women
First, the fear of being envied often increases envied targets’ attempts to ward off the potentially destructive effects of malicious envy—for example, by increased engagement in prosocial behaviors (van de Ven, Zeelenberg, & Pieters, 2010). To that end, envied targets may opt to request help from an envious peer as a means to flatter and praise them. Additionally, by seeking help, the envied target admits to at least some degree of dependency and incompetence, which in turn may lessen the threat they induce. Indeed, recent research found that revealing failures encountered on the path to success may be an effective means to reduce malicious envy (Brooks et al., 2019).
Less friendly and less generosity is a sign of increasing envy
Indeed, the fact that Rodriguez Mosquera et al. (2010) found that one of the key markers of being envied is the envied targets realizing that the envious individuals are becoming less friendly and generous toward them implies that encounters in which the envied target needs yet doesn’t receive sufficient support or assistance from envious others do in fact occur.
By opting to provide their peers with dependent rather than autonomous help, individuals can overtly conform (at least partially) to norms of cooperation and helping yet, at the same time, subtly maintain the help seekers’ incapability and dependency
In our work, we studied effects of malicious motivations toward envied outperforming others on help giving. We predominantly explored the type of help provided, distinguishing between two types of help: dependent help, which consists of providing the solution to the immediate problem only and thus reinforces recipients’ future reliance on others’ assistance, and autonomous help, where the helper also provides tools that develop the recipients’ capacities and enables them to later solve problems independently (Bamberger & Levi, 2009; Nadler, Harpaz-Gorodeisky, & BenDavid, 2009). By opting to provide their peers with dependent rather than autonomous help, individuals can overtly conform (at least partially) to norms of cooperation and helping yet, at the same time, subtly maintain the help seekers’ incapability and dependency
Envious people can be confused as non-envious people when understood in this way. One simply has to look if those they help become more or less dependent to see if they are envious or non-envious
. In organizational contexts, it also can serve as a source of power because of the reciprocal obligation incurred by the help recipient (Flynn, 2003b; Thibaut & Kelley, 1959), make people look cooperative, and enhance their perceived expertise and consequent performance evaluations, thereby boosting their self-esteem (Flynn, 2003a, 2006; Grant & Mayer, 2009; Hui, Lam, & Law, 2000; Warburton & Terry, 2000). On the one hand, envious people’s self-esteem threat (Tesser, 1988) may lead them to be excessively motivated to help others in order to gain the above-mentioned benefits. On the other hand, when contemplating whether to help an envied outperformer who triggers malicious motivations, additional factors may come into play and outdo these potential benefits. As noted above, these malicious motivations consist of the desire to level the gap by pulling down the envied target—that is, to belittle and otherwise harm them. Relatedly, numerous studies document a link between malicious motivations toward envied targets and schadenfreude, that is, taking pleasure in the maliciously envied target’s suffering (e.g., Cikara & Fiske, 2012; Hareli & Weiner, 2002; Krizan & Johar, 2012; Lange et al., 2018; Leach & Spears, 2008; R. H.
People are less willing to help a superior envied peer than a neutral peer. People show clearly marked lower willingness to help a superior peer.Hypothesis 1a: People will be less willing to help superior envied peers compared to neutral peers. Hypothesis 1b: The link between the type of peer (superior or neutral) and helping will be driven by feelings of envy and the consequent malicious motivations toward the peer. Specifically, increased feelings of envy toward a superior peer compared to a neutral peer will lead to relatively greater malicious motivations toward the superior peer, which in turn will lead to relatively lower willingness to help the superior peer.
Autonomous help is better for the receivers and more expensive for the givers, showing that those who provide true independence for others have stronger altruism drives.
When deciding whether to provide help, people also may contemplate about the type of help they provide: autonomous help or dependent help (Bamberger & Levi, 2009; Nadler et al., 2009). Autonomous help encourages recipients’ independence by providing tools that enable them to solve problems independently, while dependent help, which solely provides the solution to the specific problem, increases recipients’ dependency and need for future reliance on others’ assistance. Although autonomous help is often more beneficial for recipients (Geller & Bamberger, 2012), it obviously entails higher costs for its providers (e.g., investing more time and effort). From the helper’s perspective, recent work by Nadler and Chernyak-Hai (2014) found guiders were more likely to provide autonomous help to high- (vs. low-) status help seekers whom they viewed as more motivated and as sufficiently competent to make use of such help. We, however, offer that this may not be the case when the help seeker is a maliciously envied peer.
Moreover, given that envy-driven malicious motivations are typically socially unacceptable, and thus often not explicitly voiced (R. H. Smith, 1991; Vecchio, 2000), these hostile motivations are most likely to be manifested in covert, rather than overt, behaviors.
Extending this notion, we proposed that to the extent that the superior envied peer instigates malicious motivations, envious individuals are likely to prefer providing the superior peer with dependent rather than autonomous help. For maliciously motivated envious individuals, creating a situation in which the envied peer is dependent on them entails benefits associated with preserving a particular advantage, thereby restricting the disadvantageous gap and increasing their impaired self-esteem, sense of competence, and schadenfreude (enjoyment of others’ dependency and inability). Moreover, given that envy-driven malicious motivations are typically socially unacceptable, and thus often not explicitly voiced (R. H. Smith, 1991; Vecchio, 2000), these hostile motivations are most likely to be manifested in covert, rather than overt, behaviors.
When possible people will not help a superior other. But when it makes them look like they’re not team players, they will opt to make the person as dependent as possible to increase control to lower feelings of envy. They do not show that they care about the lowered opportunities this creates for other people that might have needed that person’s success. All they care about is relief from their envy.
Correspondingly, we expected the malicious motivations to be more observable in implicit behaviors, such as the type of help provided, than in the explicit decision of whether or not to help.
By keeping those they envy dependent, the envier is able to highlight their inability and dependence to attempt to get relief from aggressive feelings of hate and envy.
By opting to provide their envied peers with dependent rather than autonomous help, individuals can overtly be cooperative and help while at the same time subtly maintaining the envied help seekers’ inability and dependence.
Hypotheses
Hypothesis 2a: People will be less willing to provide autonomous help to superior envied peers compared to neutral peers. Hypothesis 2b: The link between the type of peer (superior or neutral) and type of help (autonomous vs. dependent) will be driven by feelings of envy and the consequent malicious motivations toward the peer. Specifically, increased feelings of envy toward a superior peer compared to a neutral peer will lead to relatively greater malicious motivations toward the superior peer, which in turn will lead to relatively lower willingness to provide the superior peer with autonomous help.
People who are prone to envy persist unnecessarily in comparing their own state with that of others
People who are prone to envy persist unnecessarily in comparing their own state with that of others (R. H. Smith et al., 1999). Recently, Lange and Crusius (2015) suggested that people also differ in their propensity to experience the different types of envy, that is, in their dispositional benign and malicious envy propensities.
Hypothesis 3: People with more envy will want to provide less help, particularly when the help-seeking peer is someone they perceive outperforms them.
Hypothesis 3: Individual’s dispositional malicious envy will be negatively related to their willingness to provide help, especially autonomous help to their peers, particularly when the help-seeking peer is an outperformer.
Doing things for someone without showing them how it’s done is a way to keep people dependent and resolve painful feelings of envy
, and three items measured their willingness to provide dependent help ( .92; e.g., “When helping Terry with a work-related problem, that I am more knowledgeable about than him, I would solve it for him, without showing him how I solved it”).4
People were much more willing to help someone they didn’t envy than someone they did.
In these analyses, we controlled for benign motivations in order to account for the possibility that participants may have been more willing to help the nonenvied (vs. envied) peer due to increased benign motivations,7 rather than increased malicious motivations toward the latter.8

https://www.wielerflits.nl/nieuws/zwemcoach-jacco-verhaeren-opvolger-merijn-zeeman-bij-visma-lease-a-bike/
Jacco Verhaeren will succeed Merijn Zeeman at Visma Lease a Bike . After this cycling season, Zeeman will leave for football club AZ in Alkmaar to work as general manager. As a result, the position of sporting director at the cycling formation has become available.
Several sources have indicated to WielerFlits that Verhaeren (55) will fill the position of sporting director from next season. Verhaeren was added to the performance staff of the Dutch cycling team at the end of last year.
The intention is for Verhaeren to take charge of the entire top sports policy within Visma Lease a Bike and control the sporting event with a helicopter view. A large part of Zeeman's cycling technical affairs will be taken over by Grischa Niermann and Mathieu Heijboer, who are also taking a step up within the organization.
Verhaeren and the cycling team indicated last year that they firmly believe in cross-pollination between the different sports. This year, Verhaeren would mainly support a number of processes in the background. Verhaeren is currently fully focused on his position as national coach of the French swimming team, with the Olympic Games in Paris as his absolute main goal.
Verhaeren has been extremely successful as a swimming coach for decades and guided, among others, Inge de Bruijn, Pieter van den Hoogenband and Ranomi Kromowidjojo to Olympic gold.
At the end of last year, Verhaeren said about his role at Visma Lease a Bike : “Knowledge sharing is the reason for this collaboration. I want to get to know cycling better and will provide my input on performance processes and training. I am still 100 percent committed to the French swimming team in the run-up to the Olympic Games, but I would like to shed some light on Visma 's current performance approach Lease a Bike . I do that 'with my swimming goggles on'. What they do with it is then up to them.”
Zeeman said about Verhaeren at the time: “In recent years I have often exchanged insights and ideas with Jacco,” said Zeeman. “After our best season ever, it is important for us that we continue to look for improvement and new insights. Together with Mathieu Heijboer, I came to the conclusion that Jacco can give us these new ideas and other insights from another sport. We are starting with a modest collaboration, which will hopefully lead to more in the future.”

Het idee klinkt leuk, je weet op wie je stemt. Maar ik moet gelijk denken aan het districtenstelsel in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, waar verkiezingen onrepresentatief zijn voor de wens van de kiezers.
'Een wetsvoorstel tot invoering van een nieuw kiesstelsel voor de Tweede Kamer ter versterking van de regionale band tussen kiezers en gekozenen wordt dit jaar ingediend, gericht op tijdige inwerkingtreding voor de volgende verkiezingen'
Zie deze video van CGP Grey over de uitslagen in het VK.
We hebben in Nederland een representatief kiesstelsel met veel partijen, maar voor ieder iets wils. Dit veranderen zoals Pieter Omtzigt nu wil lijkt mij een heel slecht idee.

Liveblog van de Volkskrant:

Langzaamaan komen er druppels informatie naar buiten over waarom het afronden van de formatiegesprekken onverwacht langer duurt dan eerder werd aangenomen. Volgens het hoofd woordvoering van NSC zou de VVD meer tijd nodig hebben om de laatste puntjes op de i te zetten. Dit wordt door de VVD ontkend.
Vanuit de liberalen valt te horen dat Pieter Omtzigt vandaag, nadat de onderhandelingen over het financiële plaatje gisteren waren afgerond, met een nieuw voorstel op de proppen is gekomen dat behoorlijk grote implicaties heeft voor de rijksfinanciën. Volgens de VVD is dát de reden waarom de gesprekken nu langer duren dan voorzien.
Betrokkenen houden er inmiddels rekening mee dat een eventueel hoofdlijnenakkoord pas morgen gepresenteerd kan worden.

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Gegroet mede miem makkers en politieke junkies,
Ik vroeg me af, welke onnuttige informatie over (lokale) politiek hebben jullie paraat?
Zo kan ik jullie vertellen dat Pieter Omtzigt en Davide Baudet (de vrouw van) naar dezelfde middelbare school zijn gegaan, Grundel Lyceum (grootste kakker school in Hengelo) er zat wel is waar iets van 20 jaar tussen maar toch.
Hebben jullie nog vergelijkbare onzin info?

Hi allemaal, mijn naam is Thijs van Dorssen en ik ben op dit moment werkzaam bij de pop-up redactie van het onderzoeksjournalistieke platform Pointer van KRO-NCRV. Op dit moment zijn we neergestreken in Tilburg. We doen onderzoek naar alles wat er speelt in de regio:
https://pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/onderzoeken/pointer-pop-up-tilburg
Mocht je ergens tegenaanlopen, ben je welkom voor een kop koffie. We zitten aan het Pieter Vreedeplein 149 in het centrum van Tilburg. Deze week zijn we vandaag, vrijdag en zaterdag open en volgende week van woensdag t/m vrijdag. Je mag me natuurlijk ook altijd dm-en of mailen op thijs.vandorssen@kro-ncrv.nl. Alle tips (groot en klein) zijn welkom.
Groetjes,
Thijs