I am Sander Nagtegaal. Centrical is my blog. I am a slightly big-headed chaotic. You can wake me up for bananas, yoghurt with muesli and reruns of Barbapapa.

0-18

I was born in Dordrecht in 1974. It is not a particularly notable place. Next to falling in love continuously, I spent most of my time there struggling with athletics and (with arguably more success) graffiti.

18-23

While at university, I excelled at eloquently stating the obvious about geophysical stuff so obscure that nobody noticed anyway. It’s no wonder I ended up doing something completely different after I graduated. However, I loved the shady field trips to long forgotten areas, like the snake-infested mud mountains of Inner Mongolia - searching for natural resources, Roman kilns, fossils or contemporary weaponry.

23-now

By the end of the nineties, playing with geophysics led to my first experiments with internet software. After a few years in the scene, I started my own company Centrical. Customers were for example Akzo Nobel, Utrecht Medical Center and Albumprinter - this rapidly growing start-up employed me in 2006 as their chief architect. Recently, I started Peecho - aiming to become the print button of the internet. Anyway, at work I am the guy who draws shapes with mysterious blocks and lines that other people eventually try to convert to software.

Now

• I live and work in the city center of Amsterdam.
• I am co-founder of Peecho, possibly the coolest company in the world - ever.
• I teach Kung Fu Toa Simorgh, so please join my class at Healthcity Amstelstraat.
• I started taking MMA classes at Vos Gym, too.
• I like to travel, to all sorts of places, preferably filled with cold mountains, hot deserts and/or the wicked and the strange.
• I do not eat meat because I like cows, pigs and octopusses too much to eat them - and I am way too lazy to sort it all out.
• I sometimes produce weird paintings full of blue women, hectic letters and depressed animal cartoons.
• I love zombies, pirate girls, coffee bears and breaking my own bones in spectacular ways.