Reinier van Eijk

Practice without study can become good, never great. Study without practice is worthless. It’s when study and practice meets often, where great results unfold.

Taken apart from the emotional part, we can rationally convince people in two ways. Vision or data. Vision is a projection of something imaginary onto the future, getting others to believe it because they see it as well. Data is black/white proof of the past, projected onto the future. Whichever …

When business people look for threats, solutions, in our market or business, we often look for alternatives. A Samsung or Sony mobile PDA. (And not an iPhone) Hotel A or B. (And not a bed & breakfast) Store A or B. (And not the internet) Route A or B. (And …

I’m reading Chris Voss’s book Never split the difference (on negotiating) and today what stuck with me is that you have incredible power in any negotiation when you’re not talking. One very simple thing really blew my mind. If you’re speaking, you have a 0% chance of obtaining new relevant …

If you only tell someone what goes wrong, he won’t build the self confidence that’s needed to keep on trying and enjoy it so much that he will also try something else.

Everyone wants to feel special. Heard. Seen. And everyone is unique. But no one is actually more special. Everyone has to watch out before crossing the streets. Given these facts, how do you make your customers (friends, family, customers, co-workers) feel special?

Big tech serves us as we consume, but don’t mistake that for what we want. Netflix tells me for every title the % change that I like the content they suggest. Facebook (& Instagram) give me more content I engaged with. Google ranks content higher based on the click bait …

Being a technical entrepreneur requires the will to fall in love with the art of crafting an organisation that does best what you so dearly love to execute. You need to fall in love with crafting, creating, shaping and building that organisation. That’s your day job, not the execution of …

Or sentence, idea, insight. That’s all a book needs to transform its value (bought for let’s say $20,-) to invaluable to you. Sometimes that happens the first page. Sometimes in the first 50. Sometimes over the whole book. Rarely it doesn’t provide. $20 for a big idea, that’s a bargain. …

There’s no substitute for attention. If you choose to spend it to cat videos and other people’s picture perfect moments, that’s on you.