Month: April 2018

Once upon a time in my life, encouraged by commercials, co-workers and other people I had decided that I would become a person who works out at a gym on regular basis. I therefore hired a personal trainer who guided me into different fitness exercises at the gym. I did this every tuesday for half…

I am currently unemployed and taking, as I wrote on my LinkedIn profile page, a conscious break in Spain. I thought this to be a good phrasing, something that will not stick out too much in the world of business. Right? As many others on LinkedIn I could also have written: looking for new challenges…

Just as it’s sometimes challenging for me to receive things from other people it can also be pretty difficult to say out loud that I am good at something. Or let’s make that: great at something. Quite some parameters of course play a role in this, let’s take culture for example. If I generalize (a…

After years of what feels a bit like climbing a mountain I have now reached a point in my life where things have slowed down for real. I have consciously cut away a lot of noise in my life by quitting my job and moving with my family to a little village by the sea…

I hereby admit to be a huge fan of a dutch journalist called Joris Luyendijk. It all started when I read his book People Like Us: Misrepresenting the Middle East. I loved the way he writes and to me a man who knows his way with words and has the ability to write intelligently is…