You may know that as of December ’19 I’ve dramatically minimized my social media use. Except for messaging apps. Here’s what I’ve learnt: This saves me 3-6 hours a week in time, and I honestly believe 6-12 hours in mind-space (ability for focused attention). I don’t crave my smartphone – …
Without a .nl-extention (amazon.de), Amazon was already the 6th online retailer in turnover in The Netherlands. From 2012 there were rumors, “Amazon will come to The Netherlands”. March 10, 2020 marks a new era in the craft of Dutch online retail. Facebook got Hyves on its knees in 2013 when …
I was wrong about Corona. It transmits 1-3 days before you feel sick and that’s a dark spec of a virus. We simply can’t stop it from transmitting. My simple conclusion is a prediction: We won’t be able to stop COVID-19 from transmitting in 2020 and probably beyond. We can …
Often random is computerized random. Random is illogical. Random is unexpected. Random is weird. You don’t know what is random, until you actually encounter random. Some time ago I got involved in creating a daily 5-minute podcast for podcasters around the globe. You can find it here. The pod’s are …
If there was no budget, what would you spend? If there was no deadline, when would you be done? If you had no target, how would you perform? If you could be anywhere, where would you be? If you could do anything, what would you do? If only after the …
Sometimes stuff is frustrating. You had a great plan. Your execution was great. But still you encountered a problem and failed. Last Monday I had this problem. I went home far too late, whilst I actually wanted to go home early. The odds weren’t in my favor. First I was …
People that are successful in managing multiple projects at the time: we envy them. Super entrepreneurs. The people that have made many companies a great success. They don’t multitask. They do one thing at a time. And they nail that. They get rid of all distraction. But they have multiple projects? …
Finishing first in a championship. Losing weight. Meeting the deadline. Reaching the turnover goal. Finishing the painting. They are all hard puzzles to solve. Require time, devotion, talent. They all come with joy at the finish. They all come with pain in the process. It’s not only the joy at …
There’s always more perspective. The more you know, the less you know. True wisdom is in the middle. Between right and wrong. Egoism and selflessness. Rich and poor. Occupied and free. If you think you have balanced the scale, you will probably find out that again there’s more to balance. …
For a week now I’m intentionally saying goodbye to something in my life on a daily basis. In order to make space for new things. When I committed, I thought this was mainly about my geographical-, and time-‘space‘ (mainly my calendar). But I discovered that it’s about my physical ‘space’ …