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  • The Battle for Beauty

    This blog post is about beauty, about excellence and uniqueness in their battle against efficiency, scale and functional Lego bricks. Oil Painting by Adam Brooks It’s about my hunger for systems that add value to society versus systems and environments that only suck value out of society. It probably all started many years ago with… Read more

  • Inside Outside

    I just saw a very nice documentary on Belgian Television Channel CANVAS about the making of Novastar’s latest album ‘Inside Outside”, released in March 2014. None other than John Leckie produced the album, the legendary producer who earned his spurs in the Abbey Road studios with Pink Floyd and George Harrison. Leckie was also behind… Read more

  • Dream #2: Flying

    Having a week off, and found some time to look back into my dreams-book (see introduction to the concept in #Dream-1: Breakfast). Here is another dream, called “Flying”: Standing on my tips Slowly softly jumping Then stepping Then running to take speed Sometimes straight from stand-still Go airborne like a balloon And then taking direction… Read more

  • Gatekeepers and Goalkeepers

    There is a fantastic talk on the 99u site by Mark Eckō titled “Embrace the mess” Entrepreneur, media mogul, and designer Marc Eckō tell us that, if we’re not careful, we can let others label us and define our career, robbing us of our natural potential. The solution?   Stand up for yourself!   It’s… Read more

  • Innotribe Sibos 2014 – The Build Up

    I have been relatively silent on my blog, tweets and other social media. The reason is focus. Focus on preparing with the team another exciting experience at Innotribe Sibos, this year in Boston from 29 Sep till 2 Oct 2014. Less than 2 months from D-day, we are in full build up. We are in… Read more

  • Ties vs Tattoos

    Peter Thiel is always good for some controversy. Usually, I am a big fan of him, despite his libertarian opinions. But this time I have to disagree. Because it seems that he hates business suits, to a point that he does not want to invest on startup CEO wearing a suit. In Business Insider he… Read more