Category Archives: Personal

Important to me, perhaps irrelevant to you

weekly TED-pick: Rachel Botsman: The case for collaborative consumption 0

Un-Convention co-founder Jeff Thompson directed me towards this particular TED-talk in which Rachel Botsman illustrates how we humans are actually hard-wired to share information.

Modern technology allows us to tackle the problem that economists call “the coincidence of once”. Something that was not so easy to solve even ten years ago. Modern technology helps us build …

Awesome song: Tightrope – Janelle Monae feat. Big Boi 0

Being a protegé can be all sorts of good news. As Big Boi and Outkast took Janelle Monae under their wings, she immediately was propelled into the limelight, exposing her to an immense audience. Which is great. And also a bit dangerous if you’re not really talented. As far as I am concerned, Janelle …

Rework – Jason Fried 0

This was on my to-read list for a while, and I am happy I finally found time to read it. I have been a fan of 37Signals’ software for a while, and with my company De Ondernemers we are happy users of Basecamp and Highrise.
“Scratch your own itch”
What is interesting to know is that …