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…
About being powerful
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…
About finding my purpose
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…
About being a fan
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…
About growing older
Our neighbour here in Spain is called Jo. She is a really nice young woman from Scotland who told me one day that her parents were coming over to Spain for a visit. A few days later I saw a man sitting on her balcony. I waved to him, he waved back and in the…