PinnedDealing with Complexity: The Art of And-And MosaicsWhen writing about ‘difficult’ topics such as complexity, the eternal dilemma is how to deal with the number 1 rule of writing: keep it…Oct 22, 2023Oct 22, 2023
PinnedRoom for mourning as key to smoother transitionsResistance against a range of transitions finds its origins less in a fear of having no viable future than in the (de)pressing feeling of a…Mar 7, 2023Mar 7, 2023
Voltaire 2.0: disagreement, but decently, as new political normPolarisation in the political arena and society at large go hand in hand. Somewhere around the globe (early) elections and other power…Jul 30, 2023Jul 30, 2023
Mobilising for a better future: Turn it on, not offMobilising people (, companies, governments) to take climate change, and all other system-related crises for that matter, seriously and…Nov 27, 2022Nov 27, 2022
Homo Resiliencus: thoughts on thriving in modern societyIt’s been a while since I wrote a blog here. I have been busy enough, also reading other contributions. I have many thoughts, and opinions…Mar 2, 2022Mar 2, 2022
Certainly agree with the gist of the article, i.e.Perhaps the starting point is indeed this seemingly trivial but all the easier framing: a circular society. I.e. do not throw away the good…Mar 12, 2021Mar 12, 2021
On the Bearable Unheightness of Being (in) The NetherlandsA mini visual summary of a (pre)summer of 5000 km of cycling, after corona-induced rediscovery of using a bicycle for leisure, and staying…Sep 3, 2020Sep 3, 2020
Post-lockdown: stop the simplistic scenarios, be more curious and less binaryIn the emerging plethora of predictions about the near future of a world recovering from the corona-pandemic, many people seem to be very…May 21, 2020May 21, 2020