Better for who?

The customer decides. Humans have free will and, choose. Yuval Noah Harari, the Israeli Historian, and writer of Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 lessons for the 21st century, led me to think about this ‘who’s it for’. 200 years ago, the customer didn’t decide. There was this different paradox. The …

Nervous vs. excited

Simon Sinek opened my eyes on nerves with his riff on interview questions at the 2012 London Olympics “Were you nervous?“. The definition of nervous is… Your heart races, you visualize the future, your hands get clammy. The definition of excited is… Your heart races, you visualize the future, your …

A deeper level of patience

The period between Thanksgiving and Christmas could be called reflection season, if you’re into reflecting. I love reflecting; since it’s looking back ánd forward, whilst standing still. It’s super interesting to see what learnings you’ve gone through in a short period of time, and how you can internalize them moving …

Some

Some is almost always better than none. Some feedback moved the train forward today for one of my students. However I shared just a glimpse of my thoughts. Some peace is better than none. Some agreement is better than none. Some viewers of our content are better than none. Although …

Here’s to doing better

I love to quote Mark Twain and say “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” In 2019 on November the 23rd, a year ago, I’ve had the honour of presenting my first book Collectie van Rampen. I’ll never forget that day. The Twain quote …

Concepts

Post mortum, a lot of great Michael Jackson work came in the world. Every now and then I scroll through my concept blogs and discover a diamond in the rough. Our best work is the work that sees the world with the potential to change someone. There’s the risk of …