William van Zweeden

Life

  1. My Take on AI, Fall 2026 We’re Not Talking About the Same Thing Two Stories, Same Week A couple of weeks ago, I opened Claude Code, gave it one serious prompt and a couple of hyperlinks,… Life, Technology
  2. Here’s What I Learned When Building BetterRunning What BetterRunning is BetterRunning is three things pretending to be one thing. The app: a SwiftUI and watchOS coaching tool that reads your running data, most of it captured through… Life, Technology
  3. Why I built BetterRunning Earlier this year, I found myself doing something slightly ridiculous. After a run, I would take screenshots of my workout data and copy them into ChatGPT or Anthropic. I wanted… Life, Technology
  4. When Every Answer Is Free, the Only Thing Worth Paying For Is the Question Every question I asked had an answer. I didn’t expect that. I’ve been playing around with building my own iOS and watchOS application recently, a hobby project, nothing more. Evenings,… Life, Technology
  5. Why I Built Over Bought The Accidental Developer: Why I Built a World Cup App for My Son It started simply enough. My son, who is almost nine, is completely swept up in World Cup… Life, Technology
  6. The Ones That Hurt the Most… Last weekend, I completed my fourth half marathon, one year after I ran my first. Like last year, the place of action was The Hague. And Scheveningen. And back to… Featured, Life
  7. The Marathon of Life: Lessons from the Running Trail There’s something magical about running in the rain. As the water hits your face and the wind pushes against your body, you may find yourself in a peculiar dance, or… Featured, Life, Marketing, Productivity
  8. We went out into the mountains Because, well, being out in the mountains with a snowboard or pair of skis is just one of the most phenomenal things that exist in life. Life
  9. What Does AI Look Like? On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT. Within just two months, the AI-driven application had attracted one hundred million users, likely setting a record for the fastest adoption rate of… Life, Marketing, Productivity, Technology
  10. The Books I Read This Summer (2024 edition) The Black Swan I started reading the black swan a pretty long time ago. And despite the fact I found the content very interesting, I struggled to get through it,… Life, Marketing, Productivity

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