nivan/Founder

You do not seethis work.Until it is gone.

Real estate and software. Most days both at once.

001 / Short

A building is made for decades, a program for a few years.

My work sits in between.

Real estate

Perfection is never an accident. It is the masterful illusion that great assets preserve themselves.

I am that invisible hand. Sometimes the rescue of entire portfolios along with it, absolutely silent, in the shadows.

Software

It never starts with a program. It starts with a question nobody can answer.

I build the answer. Sometimes the company along with it, not always under my name.

002 / Order

Inthisorder

Three steps that apply to a building as much as to a company.

01

Watch first

I look at how something runs today before I change anything. Everyday use says more than any description.

02

Then simplify

A lot can go. What stays gets a routine you can explain in two sentences.

03

Then hand over

In the end it has to run without me. Otherwise I only moved the work around.

What I build should still be in use in a few years.

003 / Terms

WordsIusedifferently

They appear in every contract. They rarely mean the same thing.

A word for something that should have been decided three months ago.

Everything you do so that nothing happens. Success looks like an ordinary Tuesday.

The moment it runs without me. Not the moment it first runs.

What is left after the building has had what it needs.

The result, not the starting point. Anyone who says it early has not looked yet.

004 / Work

WhatIworkon

Five running in parallel. There are more.

004 / Work

What I work on

Five running in parallel. There are more.

001

Wohnliegenschaften Management AG

Statements, appointments, tradespeople.

002

AuctionPlace

One date, open bids, then the price stands.

003

FairEstate

A valuation you can read back.

004

Websites

Pages that get by on a few sentences.

005

Tools

What used to live in mail and folders.

The feeling of minding your own business.

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