Timon Bestebreur

Hi there! Welcome to my site.

You can reach me at:

timon.bestebreur [at] gmail.com

Things I made

• Podcast: Why Do We Learn This?
• Podcast: Fietsgedachten
• Blog
• Github
• Music
• Photos
• Poetry
• Woodworking
• Game Design

Things I wrote

• How to Live Better than a King on a Normal Salary
• How to efficiently manage Small Tasks to free up your mind for Big Thoughts
• Life lessons from books I read
• The Idea behind the design of this website
• My Micro-Farm
• How to Love your Job
• Why chasing Early Retirement makes Me a Better Employee
• Why I don't use WhatsApp (and other IM platforms)

And now, the official grand welcome to you, my dear visitor!

(In gandalf voice) Welcome. It is with great pleasure that I receive you here on my tiny corner of the internet. Please, take a look around, and enjoy your stay. (End of gandalf voice)

This webpage contains many things, and I hope you find something interesting or amusing. It is a unique reflection of me, my interests and the things I share to help you enjoy more of all the amazingness that life has to offer.

If you want to reach me, you can use the abovementioned email address. I don't do twitter, facebook, snapchat, tiktok or whatever the latest social media platform is. So email it is!

Below is some more info about me, but before you read any of that, please know that you are awesome! You really are.

Me in five bullets

If I would describe myself in five bullet points, that would be:

• Follower of Jesus Christ, Linux Nerd, Book lover.
• I love to optimize my workflow.
• I make time to think.
• I try to deploy my talents in various ways.
• Born in Gouda (from the cheese), I now live in Delft.
• Bad at counting (This is a joke, actually I love counting!)

Things I like

For each category I listed my Top 3 and an honourable mention. Maybe you stumble on something you find interesting. Enjoy!

Blogs

• Mister Money Mustache
• Early Retirement Extreme
• FrugalWoods

Honourable Mention: Study Hacks

Books

• Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth
• Cal Newport's Deep Work
• Jakob Lund Fisker's Early Retirement Extreme

Honourable mention: Gregory A. Boyd's Letters from a Sceptic

Music pieces

• Dvorak's New World Sympony
• Blues Delight's Slightly Hungover
• Disclosure's Nocturnal

Honourable mention: Frank Sinatra's Fly Me To The Moon

Video Games

• Dark Souls
• Super Meat Boy
• Kerbal Space Program

Honourable mention: Super Hexagon

Movies

• Avengers: Infinity War + Endgame
• Tropic Thunder
• Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping

Honourable mention: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Quotes

• "Everything is hard before it is easy." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish." - Steve Jobs
• "A Journey of a Thousand Miles begins with a Single Step." - Lao Tzu

Honourable mention: "For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life". - John the Baptist

Thanks for visiting my website. You look handsome today!