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#102 Repeat
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…
Jasper Visser
Feb 5
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January 2023
#101 Bluey-taram
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…
Jasper Visser
Jan 22
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December 2022
#100 DTWD
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…
Jasper Visser
Dec 31, 2022
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November 2022
#99 Innumeracy
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…
Jasper Visser
Nov 19, 2022
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#98 I'm leaving Twitter
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…
Jasper Visser
Nov 13, 2022
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October 2022
#97 On Rome
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…
Jasper Visser
Oct 16, 2022
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#96 Concrete (2)
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…
Jasper Visser
Oct 8, 2022
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September 2022
#95 Colleagues
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…
Jasper Visser
Sep 9, 2022
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August 2022
#94 Work to be done
Today, I returned to work after a 3-week holiday. Even though I will miss the time to go running, play guitar, teach my youngest to ride a bike, or go…
Jasper Visser
Aug 15, 2022
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#93 Summer camp
Aged 40, I went on a summer camp that felt like a summer camp afterward. On drives, walks, and rides since, I’ve oscillated between the joy of having…
Jasper Visser
Aug 7, 2022
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May 2022
#92 Concrete
In a few days, I will transition into a new role (and career). On the first of June, I will start as program manager for sustainability at BAM Infra, a…
Jasper Visser
May 30, 2022
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#91 Tsjintiidkuier
“The elites may be disproportionately monolingual.” — Workshop participant Earlier this year, I spent International Mother Language Day facilitating…
Jasper Visser
May 23, 2022
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