Sometimes, when the months are dark, so is the music I listen to. I have a few favorites from my youth, all bands that are radically pro-environmentalism and animal rights. Thus, when I’m running through a deserted office district on a dark February evening with my AirPods in…
I wanted to write about two series I binged the last few months and the personal and epochal transformation that has happened between the two of them…
In one of the later Mad Men episodes (The Monolith), the show’s protagonist Don Draper is whining about not having his old job and being hung over. His…
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So yes, I numbered the last update wrong. Numbers are always tricky. As a younger man, I read John Allen Paulos’s Innumeracy, Mathematical Illiteracy…
This is a service update to let you know I’m leaving Twitter. Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform I joined in April 2007 isn’t the reason, but it is…
I just finished listening to Mike Duncan’s The History of Rome. The 73-hour show chronologically chronicles the history of the (Western) Roman Empire…
Last week we handed out an encouragement award for sustainability (“pluim” in Dutch) to a team that had enabled the use of hundreds of thousands of tons…
Over the year and the projects that filled them, I’ve had hundreds of colleagues. Now, I have thousands. The first good thing about that is that…
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