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Poem 21418
Ik wou dat ik jouw schilderij was Gestreeld worden door je penselen Geslagen door je vodden en lompen Overspoeld met kleur als door een zacht deken Rough translation I wished I was your painting Caressed by your brushes Beaten by your rags and tatters Washed with colour as by a soft blanket Read more
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People don’t resist change, they resist bullshit
There were some interesting posts the last couple of weeks; all indicating that there is something fundamentally wrong with how organisations measure people’s performance. Petervan artwork – detail of 2016 painting on performing Acryl on Canvas Some examples: Leda Glyptis’ post on the annual appraisal process And her subsequent post about the fake nature of… Read more
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A new metric for work: A.F.E.A.R.
In my Mid-Jan 2018 swan song post, I invited my readers to start a conversation on “Let’s do something interesting”. Tourists stroll on a pier in the Black Sea town of Balchik, Bulgaria August 2017, Picture by Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Getty A couple of Skype calls later, I stumbled upon a number… Read more
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Petervan Delicacies – Period 21 Jan – 4 Feb 2018
Edition-117 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About engineers being in charge (or not): https://thebaffler.com/latest/engineered-for-dystopia-banks About profiling, artificial intelligence and augmented reality. Awesome essay by Mark Pesce: https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-last-days-of-reality/ About the four fronts of a new and important kind of war. Update… Read more
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Sine Parole – 25 Jan 2018
Petervan artwork 2018 – Detail hand-cut tape on canvas on wooden panel Read more
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Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 15 Jan 2017
Edition-116 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About the antisocial aspect of investing in Bitcoin: http://techonomy.com/2018/01/investing-bitcoin-antisocial/ About the evolution towards the self-tuning organization: https://bcghendersoninstitute.com/the-next-digital-frontier-harnessing-automization-and-emergence-to-reinvent-the-enterprise-edcb6fb32059?_lrsc=bca88b29-2abc-481e-b827-57784899050f About the truth and consequences of our Tech addiction: https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/20884-the-great-awakening About some antidote to the never-ending… Read more
Petervan Studios
Artistic Interventions – Interruptions – Provocations
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