Consciously opting for interim contracts in later years to maintain flexibility while building his creative career. Built a reputation as a concert organizer in the metal scene, managing productions such as the Gentse Bieste (during the Gentse Feesten) and the Operation: Citadel festival in 1998, as well as pioneering the Ferrum metal community.
Due to extreme sleep deprivation lasting two full years, severe hallucinations, cataplexy (sudden muscle collapse and temporary paralysis), and sleepwalking. With short-term memory wiped every three seconds (‘BAF! WEG!’), Jan developed a metaphysical survival mechanism called the ‘Universal Clipboard’, storing infinite complex information via frequencies, scents, colors, geometric shapes, fixations, and visual projections rather than 3D linear memory.