If there’s one piece of software that’s had an outsized impact on my productivity, it’s aText. This tiny text expansion tool runs quietly in the background of my Mac, but it’s saved me so much time. At its core, aText is simple: you create custom abbreviations that automatically expand into full phrases, sentences, or even paragraphs. For example, when I… Continue reading My #1 time-saver: aText
My client is a Youtube star! 🌟 Dimitris Hall founded Easy Greek, a super fun way to learn Greek. His business and team grew fast (11 people now!), and with success comes… chaos and plenty of last-minute stress and working nights and weekends. My job was to bring structure to Easy Greek’s processes, set up a task management system and… Continue reading Project case study – EasyGreek
Since the 1990’s I’ve been keeping a list of business ideas that I will most likely never execute. I’ve shared three social business ideas on LinkedIn. Hopefully I can inspire someone, in some way. Do get in touch to brainstorm, or if you need a co-founder who can do the back-office 💩 ! Idea 1: LocalTees The concept Sourcing t-shirts… Continue reading Never-started social businesses
From the day the best vegetarian restaurant in Amsterdam opened (in 2022) I helped Chez Nina run more smoothly and have better data. Chez Nina was taken over in 2025. What I did Some of the things I worked on: The result By having “what to do” described clearly, it takes much less time to bring new Chez Nina team… Continue reading Project case study – Chez Nina
Almost a month of work & weekend trips (for Sanne & me) and full holiday (for my parents) in Oman. It was beautiful, the country as well as the chance of being able to do this magic trip with my parents! Workation in European winter in Muscat Oman – the summary:🍚 Multicultural: Arab vibes, but sometimes more India / Pakistan… Continue reading Workation: Oman 🇴🇲
Sanne is an occupational therapist and ergonomist. She’s also my spouse! In 2022 she set up DeskGuru – to fully focus on online ergonomic workstation assessments. In a 45 minute session, she helps employees of her clients create a more pleasant working environment. At home or at the office. She’s good (I’m objective: a near 5 star rating from 100+… Continue reading Project case study – DeskGuru
I’ve been fully booked since announcing my new venture! Before I even had a company name. Or a logo. Since yesterday I do though, and Ordo ab Chao is now officially a company! With Ordo ab Chao (loosely translated: “from chaos to order”) I help entrepreneurs organize their back-office or execute projects so they can focus on what they do… Continue reading It’s official: Ordo ab Chao
This lucky bastard worked from Guwahati (Assam) for a month in January, with weekend excursions into Assam and Meghalaya.
The best podcast I’ve listened to this year is an interview by Lex Bolmeijer with Bart Brandsma (in Dutch), an expert in the field of polarization. Brandsma is a Dutch philosopher. He travels the world to study and train governments about the dynamics around “us versus them” thinking. He wrote Polarization: Understanding the Dynamics of Us-Them Thinking in 2016. Brandsma… Continue reading An eye-opening podcast about polarization
Dit is een gastbijdrage van Dam! Bart en ik hadden ons er iets anders van voorgesteld, deze avond, waarbij de herstart van Best of 160 na 16 jaar zou plaatsvinden. Kijk, aan een competitie kun je slechts deelnemen als je er vol voor gaat, hetgeen mijn team deed. Toen echter na een voortreffelijke maaltijd duidelijk werd wat er van ons… Continue reading Best of 160 – Editie 7
