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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

January 2023

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…
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December 2022

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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November 2022

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
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

October 2022

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…
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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

September 2022

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

August 2022

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…
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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…
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May 2022

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…
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“The elites may be disproportionately monolingual.” — Workshop participant Earlier this year, I spent International Mother Language Day facilitating…
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