Achieving (and living with) Perfect Knowledge
On September 21 I was relaxing in the sun with Tessa and Loïs. I was drinking Tonic water which is flavored with quinine which gives it a distinctively bitter taste. Loïs wanted to taste it and Tessa wondered out loud ‘do you think quinine could be bad for children?’. I thought “Well, maybe it is. Quinine is a fever-reducing chemical and the first effective treatment for malaria“. But I didn’t know if it was bad for children so I simply said: ‘Look it up’. We both own an iPhone so within seconds...
read moreDeath, Nalden.net, TwitterKeys, TV, Radio & the Kashmir pouch
If I’m not blogging that surely doesn’t mean nothing is happening! Here are a few links to what I’m doing and what happened: An old friend, Mark Hoekstra, died this week. Too young. Way too young! We did the Slurpr project together and he used my old iPhone and turned it into the first all black iPhone in the world: http://www.bright.nl/in-memoriam-mark-hoekstra Nalden.net published my top 10 music of all time and a short story about me: http://www.nalden.net/#/audio/414/ I invented TwitterKeys last week and it became the...
read moreThe Flying Boat
Imagine an entrepreneur, lets call him Jack, talking to his partners: “Let’s cross the ocean together! We could do that! We could discover undiscovered countries and become rich! All we have to do is build a boat. We are qualified, experienced and motivated. Jim, you have experience with the open sea and know how to navigate. Bob, you know about construction and materials, and I would be an excellent skipper because I know how to motivate people and set a course. Let’s just do it!” And so they do. After months of hard...
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