Auteur: reinier

This app has made a game of it not to use your phone. Set a timer to 5 – 120 minutes. A small tree is planted on your screen. The tree grows if you don’t use your phone. If you do use your phone, the tree dies. You can build …

One makes a difference. Because if it weren’t there, there wasn’t one. One you. One Martin Luther King. One moon. Ten is something. It’s growing. Ten days. Ten cats. Ten dollars. Ten boats. Ten photo’s. A hundred is starting to gain attention. It’s not ordinary anymore. It’s not even close …

When you never skip a day, something is not a choice. It’s when things become a choice, that the voice in your head gets a voice. When every day becomes most of the days, before you know it becomes often. Then sometimes. Then never. Don’t underestimate the power of every …

What would make more of an impact? $50 you received every month. $50 you have to do something with, for someone else every month. If you don’t know, I’d suggest that for the upcoming 6 months you create an experiment for yourself. The first 3 months, directly after your paycheck …

As we’re orienting for a school for our daughter, today I visited a primary school. Kids have laptops from first grade. What I found encouraging for my vision on the scholar system today, is to see that this school focuses on skills that would help anyone in any age at …

I rewatched TRON, as Disney+ is now live in the Netherlands. Near the end of the movie there’s a scene where someone from earth says “it looks like the sun coming up.” Next moment someone from a parallel universe says “wow, I wonder what that would be like.”. In that …

If you ever had an occupation in theatre or any other creative field of work, you know duct tape. It’s your friend. It’s not sexy. It’s not pretty. It’s not cheap. Not everyone has it. However, it is very good at sticking. Duct tape does not just do what’s promised. …

In the midst of publishing a book, I have learnt this. Writing a book is art. Publishing a book is work. It’s a matter of continuously showing up and doing the hard work that is to be done. Publishing by the way, is a metaphor for everything in life that …

Last weekend I have been picking apples with the family. There’s an apple farm close by, and we went there. When we were done and going to pay, I noticed that the apples were cheaper than at the supermarket. Since this is all unsprayed and therefore more expensive to create, …

Have you ever noticed that if you read a book it’s never ideal to write in it? Unless it’s a ring binder of course. But ring binders are ugly books. Until this year I didn’t know that it’s possible to have a beautiful book that you can write in. But …