The human behind heegstra.io
Who is Jan Sytze Heegstra?
Goeie dei! I’m the chieftain over here at heegstra.io, where I help people make sense of a million ideas by simplifying them.
My passion: the simple things. My struggle: overthinking the complicated things. I know “What now?”, “Where do I start?” and plain “Why?” a little too well — for a young, chaotic overthinker it’s easy to get lost in the million thoughts running through my head every day. So I started building systems that keep me on course.
If you know me personally and you’re thinking “that’s not the guy I know” — that’s the proof my system works.
Jan Sytze Heegstra · chieftain, heegstra.ioThings I’ve done
- Jack of all trades at Heegstra Yachtcharter (yes, everyone in my family uses their last name to start a business)
- Worked in a beer brewery at Grolsch
- Worked in restaurants
- Shipbuilding and roofing at Talsma
- Ran 2 marathons (1 untrained and 1 trained)
- Studied at the University of Twente
- Failed multiple times as a wantrepreneur
- Digital jack of all trades at CazVid.com, a recruitment SaaS
- Web design
- Door-to-door sales
- And many other interesting things
What I like
- Guayaberas
- Travelling
- Guinness
- The Wim Hof Method
- Friends (and making new ones)
- Writing about pages about myself
- Cola (I consider myself a connoisseur)
- Bluegrass music
Ps. If you want to say hi, you can email me at jan@heegstra.io. I reply personally.