Expensive

I often hear people misusing the term expensive. Mixing it up with the term costly. Expensive is when what you (can) buy is priced higher than the value it potentially delivers. Costly is priced right for the value it potentially delivers, only in your opinion you have to pay much …

Tortellini, pancake

Pancake. No baby, it’s tortellini. Pancake. No baby, tortellini. Pancake. Tortellini. Pancake. (…) Only a one-year-old can discover that a tortellini looks like a very small rolled-up pancake. Looking at the world with a beginner’s mind gives you indefinite perspective. Tortellini, pannenkoek Pannenkoek. Nee schatje, tortellini. Pannenkoek. Nee schatje, tortellini. …

Sequential processing

Imagine yourself performing two tasks at a time. Let’s say you are multitasking squeezing oranges and making an argument over a phone. You think it would take the same time if you would do this simultaneously or sequential. The thing is, it’s not. Your brain can only really focus on …