I was tagged by Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, so this is the absolutely first time I've chosen to join a blogging meme. Here we go:
- I was raised in the suburbs of Copenhagen (Brøndby) by my two wonderful parents in a working class home. We had to move when my mom and dad joined "the gang of nine" who was a group of very active Danish communists who left in Danish Communist Party in protest. My family became frozen out of the local community and my dad reached the front page of "Land & Folk" - the Danish Communist Paper - as a trader. Guess that it's needless to say they aren't communists anymore. One of the most central things my parents taught me was a belief in the possibility to change the world to the better.
- I was voted the 2nd best up-coming Danish Stand-up Comedian in 1999 (Jonathan Spang became a well-deserved winner). I had three great years from 1998 to 2000 where I did stand-up comedy. I've never felt a bigger rush than getting alone on stage in front of five-hundred people and made them laugh without selling out. I also tried to do those terrible, un-prepared and un-motivated shows where nobody laughs and the red light starts blinking you of stage - it's horrible and depressing without comparison. I truly admire the great and innovative full-time stand-up comedians. It's an extremely hard life without much time to spend on family and friends (you always work in the evenings). It's an emotional roller-coaster, but when everything turns out right it's so f***** unbelievable.
- I'm a family-man. I didn't realize that until it just happened. Six years ago I was living a 70-hour-a-week, prada-shoes, dot-com'ish single-life and loved it. Then without any warning, she was there. The one. Today, I'm praised with two lovely sons and a wonderful wife. Moved away from Copenhagen to the country-side (Fyn) and find myself love chopping wood (at least when it doesn't rain and it's for the fun and not because we ran out!).
- I'm religious. I'm not bound to a specific religion, but I do pray. I have a spiritual master/coach who helps me see things clearly in a light without ego. I've used this several times when taking important decisions both regarding my personal life and umbraco.
- I'm emotional and much unstructured. If something feels right, I do it. If I don't know how, I find out. I find things that caught my interest quite easy to learn. However - if I have to do something, I can spend days just - trying to - getting started. That's the primary reason I gave up consulting years ago and started working full-time on umbraco, without any idea if it would pay the rent. I was extremely close to going bankrupt last year because of that, so my wife started handling all economy and today everything is back on track and I wake up doing what I love surrounded by people I love (at least most of the time - obviously there's bad days as well :-))
I'm tagging Ismail, Per, Roger Johansson, Pinds and Bo Drejer