Reinier van Eijk

In order to be a successful entrepreneur, one has to bet against the consensus and be right. Ray Dalio

The meat was done, all ingredients were in the pan and I changed the heat from no.9 to no.5 so it could braise. Then I left the pan with the stew for what it was to do something else. Planning to return in half an hour or an hour to …

The mother of all kids-distractions is YouTube. Of course it’s better than devoting your own attention to your kid. It’s better than play dough. Better than starting a movie on the TV and often it’s even a better distraction than food. YouTube is the perfect ‘innocent’ distraction for your kid. …

Nothing is special until someone believes so. And when enough people believe something is special, the thing is perceived special. We humans believe, when we have a story to believe in. A story about the value of something. A story about what something may mean for our social status, our …

It’s important to make a new plan, when the old one is obsolete. It’s easy to start making new plans when the old targets are getting out of reach. It’s important to recognize a dip when you see one. Now the decision is up to you. Do you make a …

Sometimes the solution to our problem is in the box we’re currently in. But hey, here’s what life taught me so far: Often it’s not.

Since books are the oldest mass form of readable media containing learnings, book recommendations – especially from famous people – get asked a lot. And the recommendations may change you. They may change you a lot. But one thing is so simple that it’s rarely written in books, although most …

We open our e-mailboxes to see if something interesting came for us. Read that again. And let it sink in. Most people receive tens and some hundreds of mails per day. Why? Managing tens, let alone hundreds of mails is a day job. If you receive hundreds of mails a …

After watching Slumdog Millionaire this weekend, I was left with some thoughts. One of the things that stuck with me is this. Whatever your sorrow is, it doesn’t make sense to worry about that in the hierarchy of things. When you read this, you probably have access to good internet …

When our surroundings change beyond our control, we are challenged to change ourselves. We may have lost our job. We may have lost half of our customers. We may look at a near future where we have zero customers and we burn our complete buffer and maybe more. In these …