Wouter Kersten

Mar 2

Homo Resiliencus: thoughts on thriving in modern society

It’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, thoroughly thought through or less so. My trouble was, and is, to structure them sufficiently so they have a coherent theme. That’s when it struck…

Complexity

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Homo Resiliencus: thoughts on thriving in modern society

Jan 3

12 Business and Money Lies You Were Told Growing Up

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Desiree Peralta

Actually agree with many points and the basic jist of the whole article.

Actually agree with many points and the basic jist of the whole article. One general thing that I sometimes care to share with younger coleagues is to stop chasing the shortcuts, and get depressed if they are not promoted in a few years. In many ways it just serves well…

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Mar 12, 2021

It’s Decision time: Reimagine or Kill the Circular Economy

Raz Godelnik

Certainly agree with the gist of the article, i.e.

Certainly agree with the gist of the article, i.e. that the CE concept currently is mostly silent on more socially oriented angles. Besides a matter of framing (what if we would start calling the model to strive for Circular Society iso economy..), I cannot think of any reason why the…

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Nov 4, 2020

Creativity and the Art of Listening

Making new connections, for real — Mostly the act of creativity is seen from the creator’s point of view. At the same time, the full creative process by definition does not take place in a vacuum; as creative experts acknowledge: everything is a remix. So how does (better) listening improve the creative process and outcomes? Image…

Listening

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Sep 3, 2020

On the Bearable Unheightness of Being (in) The Netherlands

A mini visual summary of a (pre)summer of 5000 km of cycling, after corona-induced rediscovery of using a bicycle for leisure, and staying…

Netherlands

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May 21, 2020

Post-lockdown: stop the simplistic scenarios, be more curious and less binary

In the emerging plethora of predictions about the near future of a world recovering from the corona-pandemic, many people seem to be very certain how this near future will unfold. I am not so sure. …

Lockdown

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Dec 1, 2019

Much ado about scaling

It’s a popular term nowadays: scaling. Especially scaling up. And while at a first glance it seems very sensible — achieve success, learn from that and scale up the lessons or effort — there are many points of attention. …

Leadership

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May 10, 2019

Creativity = Mastering the Harmony between Yes and No

My inspiration for this blog comes from the closing event of the course Mastering Creativity (Dutch description) which was taught at two universities in Amsterdam last semester by the Bildung Academy and for which I was fortunate to play a development (and small execution) role. …

Creativity

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Dec 5, 2018

Galapagos in the city

In a not completely arbitrary effort (I had a hunch), I watched a dvd on the Galapagos islands recently. As could be expected it was not difficult to draw some inspiration from it. But it does require a bit of skill to translate such inspiration into usable notions in concrete…

Adaptation

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Nov 5, 2018

Triple C: the generative spiral

In line with previous ponderings about the purpose of Creativity, there’s a more zoomed-out question: how distinctive are the — what I call 3 C’s — Critical Thinking, Curiosity and Creativity? Are they basically the same as some claim, or fully separate phenomena, like others say? Or… These past few…

Creativity

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