Imposing structure to find structure
The topics of chaos and order have become of interest to me lately. Or perhaps they’ve always interested me in some form or other and I’m only now finding two interesting concepts that match well […]
Musings
Other early childhood memories
This post is a side-note to Everything is a witness statement. I remember being fed baby food from a jar. I remember being fed small squares of bread with jam. My mother would cut the […]
Everything is a witness statement
Let me share some memories with you. I remember lying in my crib as a baby, and two heads appearing above me. They were radiating exuberance. A hand reached for the mechanical toy above my […]
The loss of redemption and the judgement of worth
We were watching the documentary Uncle Tom. I don’t remember exactly what the timestamp was, but at one point I said “hold on”. We paused the documentary, something we do a lot to discuss the […]
How to identify flaws in your own reasoning
How often do you Google for the opposite of your own opinion? Not to pretend to be all holy and saintlike, but I sometimes do. I would love to say it has made me omniscient, […]
Home is not a place
Around 2005, 15 years ago now, I fled the chaos and moved out. I moved 100 kilometres to go live in the city where I was attending university, Eindhoven. Life wasn’t easy, having just left […]
Don’t fear the deep dive
The subconscious. It’s not something I think we, “modern” man, really know much about. Sure, there are books. But in our social life and in our institutions? Think about it. How would you describe the […]
What is pride?
Recently, I told someone I hold dear that I’m proud of them. I felt it needed to be said. Pride is a word I hardly ever use. It’s a word that I think has held […]
Why dragons hoard gold
I mentioned to my brother the other day how I enjoyed his “What if”-questions. What if you could master kung fu like in The Matrix. Would you do it? That was a fun thought experiment. […]
What is agile?
What is agile? I’ve been giving this much thought. A company in the early stages of an “Agile transition” often encounters this question one way or another. Often it comes up in the form of […]