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  • Cubicle 3B23: Chief Happiness Officer

    There is a great comments from Joe on one of the previous Cubicle 3B23 stories. It’s too good to be hidden in the comments section. You are a CHO; now what? Yesterday I was asked what was my title, and got a puzzled pair of raised eyebrows when I responded that my unofficial self-adopted title… Read more

  • SIRI: your personal assistant in the cloud

    Found via Scobleizer. Watch the video till the very end. In the last 4 minutes or so there is a demo. In essence its a free iPhone app with a fantastic voice recognition engine, that is orchestrating API’s in the cloud. Normal – not geek – people ask me regularly: “But Peter, what do you… Read more

  • Sex, Money, Happiness, and Death

    The title will give me probably the most hits this blog ever had. Before you read any further, this is a book about authenticity. I found it via Fred Zimny’s blog. In this book Kets de Vries says: I realise the importance of authenticity in my own life and the lives of others. I have… Read more

  • Hug my PAD

    TEDxBerlin talk, discovered via Hutch Carpenter’s blog View till the end. It’s a bit funny at the end, and you can hear the audience laughing at this and not really taking the last bit seriously. Think twice. Think this one through ! In the same blog post, Hutch points at the real meaning of the… Read more

  • Google’s 90 days planning

    When i was attending Le Web in Paris in December 2009, i attended one of the Google sessions. To the question “what is your roadmap”, the Google speaker answered:   “As you probably know we do not use any roadmaps anymore”   Just last week, i found this interesting blog from Don Dodge on how… Read more

  • Broken Foot

    From the top of my broken mind to the bottom of my foot ! Yesterday i fell over a wet spot in the company’s parking garage. I could immediately see it was serious. My right foot was hanging loose in an angle of 90° ! Ambulance, hospital, x-rays, etc Result: triple fraction of ankle, shinbone,… Read more