For a long time now, I have been thinking about how to build a platform. What does that mean? Well, as you might know I have a lot of things going on in my life: I run my own company, I write, I give holistic counseling sessions to clients, I study to become a trauma-therapist,…
The era of hacking humans
This morning I read about an artist called Simon Weckert who did something that made me laugh but also think at the same time. He took 99 Android smartphones, placed them in a little trolley and started to walk the streets of Berlin. Know what happened? It created virtual traffic jams on Google Maps. Even…
Climate shame
My teenager came home the other day and told me she had been to a café in the city and had asked for a straw for her drink. The girl behind the counter tried to persuade her not to use a straw. When my kid persisted, the girl got angry at her and said: but…
Wrong place, wrong time
When I was a teenager I was assaulted on the street in broad daylight. It was a weekday around three o’clock and I was cycling home from my flute practice in the inner city of my hometown in the Netherlands. I remember seeing a small group of teenage girls walking on the pavement ahead of…
The Queen of Poor Me
Sometimes I hear a sentence and it immediately gets stuck in my head. Usually it’s because the words are so beautifully put together and/or the sentence has a meaning that deeply resonates with me. Today (in a podcast about my favorite TV-series of all things) I heard a sentence that resonated inside me: Do not…